automated-littlealchemy

Automating littlealchemy with python/selenium

This is an exercise to demonstrate how to automate the web game 'littlealchemy.com'.

This is written in python using selenium as a web driver.

Eventual behavior:

• browsers: Firefox, PhantomJS, SauceLabs
• behavior: page initialization, scraping, clicking elements, drag-and-drop

Milestones:

• start selenium / Firefox/PhantomJS
• page loaded, elements, recipes
• reports, optimizations

#Install

##Install Selenium

Use python/pip to install selenium:

pip install selenium

##Install PhantomJS

Download the latest PhantomJS from http://phantomjs.org/download.html

• Mac - https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-2.1.1-macosx.zip

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Developed with the following:

• Mac OSX 10.9.5

• Python 2.7.5

• Firefox 35.0.1

• Windows 7

• Python 2.7.11 - Anaconda 4.0.0 (64-bit)

• Firefox 45.2.0

Note - does not work with

• Windows 7 / Firefox 47