Automate firefox with python?

Question

Been scouring the net for something like firewatir but for python. I'm trying to automate firefox on linux. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

The languages of choice of Firefox is Javascript. Unless you have a specific requirement that requires Python, I would advice you to use that.

Answer 2

I use Selenium RC. All my tests are written in Python and are run with test suite.

One minor thing is that You either have to start selenium manually and point Your tests to it or start selenium from test suite which requires little bit of coding. But it's doable.

Generally I'm very pleased with this solution.

Answer 3

You could try selenium.

Answer 4

See if twill can help you. It can be used as a command line tool or as a python library.

Answer 5

The PyXPCOM extension is one possibility.

But looking at what firewatir provides, I have to 2nd the suggestion for twill. It's based on mechanize, which might also be useful in this context.

Answer 6

Many command line tools don't have a javascript interpreter so do not support web 2.0 functionality. juicedpyshell is based on PyXPCOMext's PyShell example. It gives you a python shell window "inside" the browser, and simplifies access to both the DOM of what you are browsing to and also the shell window itself (so you can add GUI elements as part of your automation script). But its a new project so probably not as full featured as some of the above.