Use the boilerplate code below to create a task.py file. See File system for more details on how to manipulate files in your workspace file system.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--headless')
options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
options.add_argument('user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:39.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/39.0')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options = options)
driver.set_page_load_timeout(30)
# Take action on browser
driver.get("http://www.python.org")
# Request browser information
title = driver.title
#Establish Waiting Strategy
driver.implicitly_wait(0.5)
#Find an element
elem = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '/html/body/div/div[3]/div/section/div[1]/div[1]/h2')
print(elem.text)
#end driver session
driver.quit()Open your Lair’s .triggers file and add a new cron trigger. Create a name for your trigger, input the following run command, and set an interval or custom cron syntax for your task. See Triggers for more details.
python task.py
Example Cron Trigger Setup
Press “Test” to execute the run command and start your task’s process execution. A process tab should open in your Terminal view.
Press Test in your Triggers view to test your cron Trigger. When ready, deploy it to production!
Your task will not be scheduled within your Lair’s development environment. Once you have finished testing, Go to the Deploy Panel to deploy a production instance of your task.
{% hint style="info" %} In order for your scheduled task to run, you must Deploy the lair! {% endhint %}
Logs are automatically stored for both Development tests and Production runs of your task.
For additional notes on using headless browsers, please visit our code snippets page.
{% content-ref url="../../resources/code-snippets/headless-browser-selenium.md" %} headless-browser-selenium.md {% endcontent-ref %}