PyAutoGUI with Selenium

A little demo showing how to make PyAutoGUI and Selenium WebDriver work together.

Usage

Docker

Note: tested on a Linux machine only.

Requirements

• Docker Engine
• Docker Compose

Installation

docker-compose build

On Linux, enable your host's OS user to create connections to the host’s X11 server:

xhost +local:$(whoami)

Bring the containers up:

docker-compose up -d

Test

docker exec selenium-chrome ilovemepaws

Check the artifacts folder for screenshots.

Bring containers down:

docker-compose down

Pure Python

Requirements

OS packages (Linux):

• python3-xlib
• python3-tk
• python3-dev
• pip3
• xvfb
• xserver-xephyr

Pip packages:

• virtualenv

Installation

virtualenv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Test

Bring the test website up:

cd tests
python3 -m http.server

Inside ilovemepaws, replace http://i-love-me-paws:8000 with http://localhost:8000.

Execute script:

./ilovemepaws

Check the artifacts folder for screenshots.

Links

• https://github.com/asweigart/pyautogui/issues/133#issuecomment-309824271
• https://stackoverflow.com/a/36372919
• http://fredtantini.free.fr/blog/index.php?article58/automatiser-des-actions-avec-selenium-pyautogui-et-xvfb