python selenium webdriver safari driver

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Quick question, I've been building a python selenium framework for testing our site. I have successfully implemented Firefox, Chrome and IE for browser testing. But have been searching for Safari driver. I know in the official documents it briefly describes it's incompatibilities and doesn't support Safari. What would you guys suggest I use for testing Safari functionality with python and selenium. Is it possible using python?

I've searched and search and can't seem to find any related Safari driver.

Thanks in advance,

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 27 '13 at 12:40

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The bindings for a local SafariDriver have not yet been implemented. If you want this feature, star the following issue at the bug tracker of Selenium:

Issue 5352: [SafariDriver] implement local safari driver in python binding

answered Jun 27 '13 at 12:40

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still only wraps java from python for safari :( – uchuugaka Sep 21 '15 at 23:28

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 28 '13 at 19:35

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Check out this blog post. It's for Java, but the process for Python ought to be much the same.

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answered Aug 05 '11 at 16:12

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That's not an answer. – frmsaul Nov 19 '16 at 18:41

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 28 '13 at 19:52

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I haven't used it myself, but there is a Safari driver available implemented as browser extension that injects javascript to each page.

It has some limitations such as not being able to handle alerts, but hopefully it helps.

answered Jan 28 '13 at 19:52

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 05 '15 at 05:27

The Safari Driver is a Safari Extension you can find a link to on the downloads section of the seleniumhq.org site. http://docs.seleniumhq.org/download/

You can also check out the source from Github and build it.

The Python Selenium bindings for Safari are not really implemented,but use the java implementation. As a reaslt you need the Selenium-standalone-Server jar file. It must be in your PATH on the machine that runs the script.

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 27 '17 at 19:27

Python support is there to run Safari tests, you can find python example on this blog

another example how to invoke Safari tests over selenium grid, please note selenium grid and node should be running.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import unittest
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

class PythonOrgSearch(unittest.TestCase):

def setUp(self):
    self.driver = webdriver.Remote(command_executor='http://localhost:4444/wd/hub',desired_capabilities={'browserName':'safari','version':'safariversion','platform':'MAC'})

def test_search_in_python_org(self):
    driver = self.driver
    driver.get("http://www.python.org")
    self.assertIn("Python", driver.title)
    driver.maximize_window()
    elem = driver.find_element_by_name("q")
    elem.send_keys("pycon")
    elem.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
    assert "No results found." not in driver.page_source


def tearDown(self):
    self.driver.quit()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    unittest.main()

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