#100DaysOfCode in Python Transcripts
Chapter: Days 73-75: Automate tasks with Selenium
Lecture: Concepts: what did we learn
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Right, let's review what we've learned so far.
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The most basic example
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of Selenium, the hello world, so to say.
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You create a driver object.
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You go to python.org.
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You find the search field, named queue.
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You populated the data and we submit it by hitting return.
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We saw that Selenium actually opens your browser.
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You see it doing it in real time which is pretty cool.
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And here we make assertions based
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on the page source that changed after the action.
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Now we're going to do a more fun and practical example,
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scraping my Packt account which you see here
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in the logged in state.
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We retrieve the login URL and loaded user and password
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from the environment variables
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and send them to the login form.
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We submitted the form by hitting enter.
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Then we found the My eBooks link and clicked it
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to actually go to the my eBooks site you see at the left.
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We identified the HTML that contains the books
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and did some parsing to get all the titles and their ids.
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And this is pretty cool to further extend
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to make a download app or whatever.
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And the second app was the PyBites banner generator
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which we fully automated using Selenium.
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Again, we logged in with the credentials.
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We found the corresponding HTML.
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In this case, we had to populate the form
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to send data to the server.
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And finally we closed the driver.
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This led to an automated banner.
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Awesome because, imagine you have
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to create like 200 for some campaign.
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Well, with Selenium, it becomes very easy.
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And now it's your turn.
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Keep calm and code in Python.
