Selenium

Installation

Install Selenium

pip3 install selenium

Install Firefox:

sudo apt install firefox

Install geckodriver:

Download latest geckodriver from github.com
wget https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.29.0/geckodriver-v0.29.0-linux64.tar.gz
tar -xf geckodriver-v0.29.0-linux64.tar.gz
cp geckodriver /usr/local/bin/
export GECKO_DRIVER_VERSION='v0.29.0'

Using Self Signed Certificates

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options

# When using Self Signed Certificates
profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
profile.accept_untrusted_certs = True

options = Options()
options.binary_location = r"/usr/bin/firefox"
options.add_argument("--headless")           # if running on a Server with no UI

browser = webdriver.Firefox(options=options, firefox_profile=profile, executable_path="/home/ubuntu/geckodriver")
browser.get('https://testsite.com/')

browser.close()

Testing reachability

#!/usr/bin/env python

import unittest
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options

class TestUbuntuHomepage(unittest.TestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        options = Options()
        options.add_argument("--headless")
        self.browser = webdriver.Firefox(options=options)

    def testTitle(self):
        self.browser.get('http://www.ubuntu.com/')
        self.assertIn('Ubuntu', self.browser.title)

    def tearDown(self):
        self.browser.quit()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    unittest.main(verbosity=2)

References

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