I have been a user of RSelenium for web scraping websites which make use of JavaScript. I am considering implementing a Julia binding for Selenium, but I wanted to first check whether Blink would work as a web-driver to perform the usual WebDriver API … For example, Finding elements by (CSS / XPATH…

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I tried the same approach but they need to fix some bugs.

Here is a draft of the code For testing it out, build the Docker image selenium/standalone-chrome with port 4444 locally. using HTTP, JSON3, Parameters import Base: close """ Session """ struct Session endpoint::String id::String timeouts::Dict{Symbol,Int} function Session(;addr::AbstractStri…

Does WebDriver.jl support automation with FireFox? On the docs manual page it says The required argument being the browser name (chrome).

Aye. You can use Selenium Firefox for instance and pass the browser name firefox.

Thanks, that looks great. But I am unsure how to proceed in setting this up. Should someone pull that docker image and then from the Git repo readme for the docker image it lists various ways to start the image: docker run -d -p 4444:4444 -v /dev/shm:/dev/shm selenium/standalone-firefox:3.141.59-202…

The easiest is to use a Docker compose file (e.g., docker-compose.yml), version: '3.7' services: # WebDriver: Selenium selenium: image: selenium/standalone-firefox:3 container_name: selenium ports: - target: 4444 published: 4444 protocol: tcp mode: host…

Using Blink for web scraping à la Selenium?

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