selenium: fill form only when requested

[sezb51]

Hello,

after so many google queries on how to do selenium stuff... :)

I want to "give back" to wider community my nice python/selenium code which inject an "AutoFill Form" button to a web page. Only after being press it then the form get filled.

This can be useful should you want to show a website but you don't want to spend time typing on many input fields so you leverage on selenium as companion tool....

The below example just use google search page and send_keys to the input field after pressing the self-destroying "AutoFill Form" button (so same function can be reused in other section/pages)

Have fun.

from selenium import webdriver

from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service

from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

import time

def wait_for_user_input(x, y):

   autofill_btn="""

     // create button element

     var btn = document.createElement('button');

     btn.setAttribute("id", "automation");

     btn.innerText = "AutoFill Form";

     // styling it as button

     btn.style.cursor = "pointer"

     btn.style.color = "red";

     btn.style.fontWeight = "bold";

     btn.style.backgroundColor = "yellow";

     btn.style.borderStyle = "solid";

     btn.style.borderRadius = "25px";

     // positioning it

     btn.style.position = "absolute";

     btn.style.top = "{x}px";

     btn.style.left = "{y}px";

     btn.style.padding = "10px";

     // when select it self remove

     btn.onclick = function () {

       element = document.getElementById('automation');

       element.remove();

     };

     var body = document.body;

     body.appendChild(btn);

   """

   autofill_btn = autofill_btn.replace("{x}", str(x))

   autofill_btn = autofill_btn.replace("{y}", str(y))

   driver.execute_script(autofill_btn)

   while (len(driver.find_elements(By.ID, "automation"))>0):

     time.sleep(2)

driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service(ChromeDriverManager().install()))

driver.get("https://www.google.com")

wait_for_user_input(100, 300)

driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '/html/body/div[1]/div[3]/form/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div/div[2]/input').send_keys("this is a test")

input("Press Enter to quit Chrome...")

driver.quit()