Selenious

Enhances Selenium with timeouts and recover capabilities.

• Free software: BSD license
• Documentation: https://selenious.readthedocs.io.

Introduction

Selenious enhances Selenium WebDriver find_element* functions to have a timeout, poll_frequency, and recover. The find_elements* functions are additionally enhanced with debounce and min settings.

Selenium already has an implicitly_wait and a WebDriverWait function. Neither of these have the versatility and natural feel that Selenious gives the code. To add a 5 second timeout to a single call, Selenious would be:

driver.find_element_by_id('popup', timeout=5)

While with implicitly_wait the code would be:

driver.implicitly_wait(5)
driver.find_element_by_id('popup')
driver.implicitly_wait(hopefully_you_know_what_the_setting_was_before)

And WebDriverWait would be:

WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(
    EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, "popup"))
)

Features

Enhancement to the find_element function

• timeout - The maximum time in seconds to wait for a succesful find.
• poll_frequency - How often to poll the driver for the element
• debounce - For find_elements* wait for this time period for the count to not change.
• min - For find_elements* the minimum count to find.
• recover - If the item or min items are not found, call this periodically and try again.

Drop-in replacement for selenium webdriver

Instead of from selenium.webdriver import Chrome a convenience of from selenious.webdriver import Chrome can be used that imports the SeleniousMixin for you.

Settings can be set in the function or globally

Locally, webdriver.find_element_by_id(‘id’, timeout=5), or globaly, webdriver.timeout = 5.

Support of recover() for click()

If a click() command raises an exception, if set, the recover() function will be called once and the click attempted again. This allows for recovering from such events as a modal popup being shown or the button has scrolled out of view.

No deprecation of the find_element[s]_by_* methods

The developers of selenium have made the decision to deprecate redundant functions such as find_element_by_id(id_) with the common function and a By parameter. find_element(By.ID, id_). Selenious will continue to support these convenience functions and not print a warning.

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.