{"id":2461,"date":"2019-07-30T18:41:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T18:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/codoid.com\/splinter-a-wrapper-library-for-selenium-with-python\/"},"modified":"2022-05-20T13:05:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T13:05:07","slug":"splinter-a-wrapper-library-for-selenium-with-python","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codoid.com\/selenium-testing\/splinter-a-wrapper-library-for-selenium-with-python\/","title":{"rendered":"Splinter &#8211; A Wrapper Library for Selenium with Python"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Splinter is a python library and it has common readable wrapper methods for <b>Selenium<\/b> and <b>zope.testbrowser<\/b> frameworks. If you would like to write readable automated tests using Python, then Splinter is a good choice. As an <a href=\"https:\/\/codoid.com\/testing-services\/automation-testing-services\/\">automation testing company<\/a>, exploring new tools\/libraries is one of the important R&#038;D activities. Please subscribe our blog to get the updates. Now, let&#8217;s see how to use Splinter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to install Splinter?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"editor editor-dark\">\n<div class=\"editor-top\">\n<ul class=\"editor-controls\">\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<pre class=\"brush: java; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\npip install splinter\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Browser Launch<\/strong> What we have noticed with <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/cobrateam\/splinter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Splinter<\/a> during Browser launch is the browser is launched very quickly. If you are also noticing the same, please feel free to comment over here.<\/p>\n<div class=\"editor editor-dark\">\n<div class=\"editor-top\">\n<ul class=\"editor-controls\">\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<pre class=\"brush: java; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nfrom splinter import Browser\r\nbrowser = Browser('chrome')\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>URL Navigation<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"editor editor-dark\">\n<div class=\"editor-top\">\n<ul class=\"editor-controls\">\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<pre class=\"brush: java; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nbrowser.visit('https:\/\/codoid.com')\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Find Element<\/strong> You can use the following methods <i>find_by_css<\/i>, <i>find_by_xpath<\/i>, <i>find_by_name<\/i>, <i>find_by_tag<\/i>, <i>find_by_value<\/i>, <i>find_by_text<\/i>, and <i>find_by_id<\/i> to locate an element.<\/p>\n<div class=\"editor editor-dark\">\n<div class=\"editor-top\">\n<ul class=\"editor-controls\">\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<pre class=\"brush: java; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nbrowser.find_by_id('menu-item-54').click()\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>All together<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"editor editor-dark\">\n<div class=\"editor-top\">\n<ul class=\"editor-controls\">\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<pre class=\"brush: java; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nfrom splinter import Browser\r\n\r\nbrowser = Browser('chrome')\r\n\r\nbrowser.visit('https:\/\/codoid.com')\r\n\r\nbrowser.find_by_id('menu-item-54').click()\r\n\r\nbrowser.quit()\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Splinter is a python library and it has common readable wrapper methods for Selenium and zope.testbrowser frameworks. 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