I want to capture screenshot of the browser URL section.
browser.screenshot.save ('tdbank.png')
It will save the entire page of internal part of the browser, but I want to capture the URL header part of the browser. Any suggestion?
Sometime, URL is saying http or https. I want to capture this in screenshot and archive it. I know I could get it through,
url = browser.url
then do some comparison. I need this for legal purpose and it should be done by taking a screenshot.
thanks in advance.
If you're on windows, you could use the win32screenshot gem. For example:
require 'watir-webdriver'
require 'win32/screenshot'
b = Watir::Browser.new # using firefox as default browser
b.goto('http://www.example.org')
Win32::Screenshot::Take.of(:window, :title => /Firefox/).write("image.bmp")
b.close
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I am trying to build a simple crawler that can login to Pinterest and pin a few things to my board.
The first step of this is successfully login. I read through the documentation and it seems like this should work but it doesn't.
When I run the code I expect it to print out a title like "Mary... is mary... on Pinterest"
But instead the title of the page is "Pinterest-The Visual Discovery Tool"
I think there's something wrong with my script.
require 'rubygems'
require 'mechanize'
require 'pry'
a = Mechanize.new
a.get('https://www.pinterest.com/login/') do |page|
form = page.forms.first
form.fields[0].value = "m...#gmail.com"
form.fields[1].value = "some_password"
new_page = form.submit
puts new_page.title
end
Keep in mind that mechanize has no capability of executing javascript and if the page depends on javascript, it may not load correctly. Although I only did a light read through of the source, it looks like it is very dependent on javascript and therefore can't be crawled effectively with mechanize.
Another option might be to use a headless browser like watir or selenium.
I just wondering for some informations about mechanize and found the below code from Internet:
require 'mechanize'
require 'logger'
agent = Mechanize.new
agent.user_agent_alias = 'Windows IE 9'
agent.follow_meta_refresh = true
agent.log = Logger.new(STDOUT)
Could any one please explain why user_agent_alias and follow_meta_refresh is needed when,mechanize itself is a browser?
Mechanize isn't a browser. It is a page parser that gives you enough methods to make it easy/convenient to navigate through a site. But, in no way is it a browser.
user_agent_alias sets the signature of Mechanize when it's running and making page requests. In your example it's trying to spoof a site by masquerading as "IE 9", but that signature isn't going to fool any system that is sniffing the User-Agent header.
follow_meta_refresh, well, you should take the time to search for "meta" tags with the "refresh" parameter. It's trivial to find out about it, and, then you'll understand. Or just read the documentation for it.
When I goto the following link on firefox (V-12), the browser on my Ubuntu machine allows me to login normally.
https://r.espn.go.com/members/v3_1/login?language=en&forwardUrl=&appRedirect=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.espn.go.com
However, if I use watir-webdriver, I get the message: "Cookies must be enabled in order to login."
Here is the code to reproduce this issue with Watir:
require 'watir-webdriver'
browser = Watir::browser.new
browser.goto "https://r.espn.go.com/members/v3_1/login?language=en&forwardUrl=&appRedirect=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.espn.go.com"
You will notice that the browser displays the "Cookies must be enabled" error message below the "email address or member name" field. When I looked at the cookies stored, I noticed that not all cookies that were stored in the normal mode are available. I compared this by searching for "go.com" in the stored cookies.
Any idea what would cause the discrepancy in cookies stored between the two modes, using the same browser?
Thanks!
There is no problem or discrepancy with watir-webdriver. What is happening here is a result of how the website is coded.
The page you are accessing (https://r.espn.go.com/members/v3_1/login?language=en&forwardUrl=&appRedirect=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.espn.go.com) is intended to be an overlay on http://espn.go.com. Whoever coded the site assumed that the overlay page would always be accessed after a hit to the main page. So, the main page (http://espn.go.com) sets a cookie in order to test whether your user agent has cookies enabled. The overlay page with the sign in form then checks to see if the test cookie is present and, if not, displays the warning you are seeing.
What is important to understand is that watir-webdriver defaults to a clean profile for each new browser instance. This means that the browser does not have any of your cookies, extensions, preferences or browsing history. Because the clean profile has never visited http://espn.go.com to receive the test cookie, the warning is being displayed.
There are two ways to avoid this warning:
You can visit the main page prior to the sign-in page, like so:
require 'watir-webdriver'
browser = Watir::Browser.new
browser.goto "espn.go.com"
browser.goto "https://r.espn.go.com/members/v3_1/login?language=en&forwardUrl=&appRedirect=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.espn.go.com"
Or, you can use your default Firefox profile, which (presumably) already has the test cookie:
require 'watir-webdriver'
browser = Watir::Browser.new :firefox, :profile => "default"
browser.goto "https://r.espn.go.com/members/v3_1/login?language=en&forwardUrl=&appRedirect=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.espn.go.com"
Hope that helps!
I am experimenting with using rspec and watir to do some tdd and have come across a problem I can't seem to get past. I want to have watir click a link (target="_blank") and then get the url of the newly loaded page. Watir clicks the link but when I attempt to get the url I receive the old url not the current. Watir docs seem to indicate that the Browser url method will return the current url. I found a blog post that seems to solve this issue by having Watir execute some javascript to get the current url but this isn't working for me. Is there anyway to get the current url from a link click with Watir?
<!-- the html -->
LinkedIn
#The rspec code
it "should load LinkedIn" do
browser.link(:href => "http://www.linkedin.com").click
browser.url.should == "http://www.linkedin.com"
end
The target will load the link in a new browser window, therefore you need to switch to that window to assert the url:
it "should load LinkedIn" do
browser.link(:href => "http://www.linkedin.com").click
browser.window(:title => /.*LinkedIn.*/).use do
browser.url.should == "http://www.linkedin.com"
end
end
See: http://watirwebdriver.com/browser-popups/ for more examples
Has anyone used the Mechanize gem on a site that required SSL?
When I try to access such a website Mechanize tries to use standard HTTP which results in endless redirections between http:// and https://.
Mechanize works just fine with HTTPS. Try setting
agent.log = Logger.new(STDOUT)
to see what's going on between Mechanize and the server. If you are still having trouble, post a sample of the code and somebody will help.
I just gave Mechanize a try with my company's web site. The home page is HTTP, but it contains a link, "customer login," which sends the browser to an HTTPS page. It worked fine. The code is:
#!/usr/bin/ruby1.8
require 'rubygems'
require 'mechanize'
agent = WWW::Mechanize.new
page = agent.get("http://www.not_the_real_url.com")
link = page.link_with(:text=>"CUSTOMER LOGIN")
page = link.click
form = page.forms.first
form['user_login'] = 'not my real login name'
form['user_password'] = 'not my real password'
page = form.submit