WebDriver is drivering me crazy

[MarcoMonte]

Hello!!! I am exhausted, I am not a programmer but I used to write some code with autoit to simpler my repetitive job, once I can count on IE function, they were simple and overall they worked well, but now... IE is not longer supported and I have to use webdriver in order to automate browser actions, I cannot even download it... furthermore English is not my first language and I find a lot of troubles searching for solutions.

I followed the first steps, downloaded these:

• JSON UDF (AutoIt) by Ward and Jos
• WinHTTP UDF (AutoIt) by trancexx or autoit-winhttp (GitHub)
• WebDriver UDF (GitHub) by Danp2

but cannot find the webdriver program, I am using this version of Chrome:

Chrome è aggiornato (Italian version)

Versione 121.0.6167.185 (Build ufficiale) (a 64 bit)

 

clicking on the link to download the right webdriver I found another page, this https://sites.google.com/chromium.org/driver/downloads which, following the instructions takes me here https://googlechromelabs.github.io/chrome-for-testing/ have I to copy and past it this line? 

"chrome	win64	https://storage.googleapis.com/chrome-for-testing-public/121.0.6167.184/win64/chrome-win64.zip	200"

 

is not it a browser? 

I am confused, any help is really appreciated 

[SOLVE-SMART]

Hi @MarcoMonte 👋 ,

let's try something: Usually I recommend further reading of the different documentations like the WebDriver wiki page or all the links on the au3WebDriver repository, but this time I am curious wheater the following could help you for a quick start or not.

Actually I created this for some german forum members, but I guess you could also benefit from it:
Please check out my repository au3webdriver-boilerplate which should help you starting your webdriver actions.
In case you're familiar with GitHub, just clone the repo and go ahead (by reading the README.md file).
Otherwise download the release (zip), and start there (by reading the README.md file).

Please let me know if this is helpful in any way or even if not, what can I improve 🤝 .

Best regards
Sven

Edited February 19 by SOLVE-SMART

[MarcoMonte]

Thks Sven, 

I'll try and let you know asap

 

[water]

Seems Google moved the download location. Please see this post.

[SOLVE-SMART]

Yes @water , you're right 👌 .

@Danp2 already provided a pull request which was tested by @mLipok and should be releases soon I guess.
https://github.com/Danp2/au3WebDriver/pull/508

I already merged the changes into my repo, because I didn't know when the release will be provided.

Best regards
Sven

[MarcoMonte]

Hello, 

I changed these 2 lines:

 $mConfig.Driver          = 'chrome' ; chrome|firefox|msedge

 $mConfig.FirefoxBinary = '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"'

I though to leave the variable name the same...

 

unfortunately when I run the mani I get an alert from Avast, I attached it

I am sure this is just a false alarm or it depends from the lines I changed?

[SOLVE-SMART]

Hi @MarcoMonte,

in your first post you wrote you want to use chrome. So the file path adjustment of

$mConfig.FirefoxBinary

isn't necessary. It's only for firefox (at the moment). Your alert from Avast is a false-positive, for sure.
Please try to remove (or just comment out) the "#pragma ..." statements and try again.



https://github.com/Sven-Seyfert/au3webdriver-boilerplate/blob/main/src/main.au3

In case this would not change anything, please also comment out the "#AutoIt3 ..." directives (line 5 to 12) and try again.
I strongly believe your virus detection is wrong and you should whitelist the main.au3 (or better the whole project folder).

⚠ Please let me know about any positiv or negativ change, thanks.

Best regards
Sven

[SOLVE-SMART]

Any update here @MarcoMonte or can this thread be closed in case all is fine for you?

Best regards
Sven

[MarcoMonte]

On 2/28/2024 at 7:08 AM, SOLVE-SMART said:

Any update here @MarcoMonte or can this thread be closed in case all is fine for you?

Best regards
Sven

Hello Sven,

I was a little busy, sorry if I have not contacted you before, I did not try a thing unfortunately, I will try in these days if time will allow it, thx very much

[mLipok]

On 2/20/2024 at 10:53 AM, SOLVE-SMART said:

https://github.com/Sven-Seyfert/au3webdriver-boilerplate/blob/main/src/main.au3

added to:

https://www.autoitscript.com/wiki/WebDriver#References

[mLipok]

On 4/19/2024 at 1:48 PM, MarcoMonte said:

I will try in these days if time will allow it, thx very much

try also:

https://github.com/mlipok/Au3WebDriver-testing