Running javascript in Selenium using Python

Question

I am totally new to Selenium. I want to execute a javascript snippet in the following code (as commented in the code), but can't do so. Please help.

from selenium import webdriver import selenium from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys import time patch = raw_input("Enter patch number\n") rel = raw_input("Enter release\n") plat = raw_input("Enter port\n") browser = webdriver.Firefox() browser.get("xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx") pdtfamily = browser.find_element_by_id("prodFamilyID") pdtfamily.send_keys("Database & Tools" + Keys.TAB) time.sleep(5) pdt = browser.find_element_by_id("productID") pdt.send_keys("Intelligent Agent" + Keys.TAB) time.sleep(5) pdt1 = browser.find_element_by_id("patchCacheChkBxID") pdt1.send_keys(Keys.SPACE) time.sleep(5) pdt7 = browser.find_element_by_id("M__Idf") pdt7.send_keys(plat) pdt8 = browser.find_element_by_id("M__Idg") pdt8.send_keys("American English") # Here I want to execute this javascript - "submitForm('patchCacheAdd',1,{'event':'ok'});return false" browser.close()

If I use -

selenium.GetEval("submitForm('patchCacheAdd',1,{'event':'ok'});return false")

it errors out as -

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'GetEval'I

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:54:28Z

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Try browser.execute_script instead of selenium.GetEval.

See this answer for example.

edited May 23, 2017 at 11:54

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Pedro Lobito · Accepted Answer · 2023-05-18 21:24:09Z

You can use execute_script, here's a python example:

from selenium import webdriver driver = webdriver.Firefox() driver.get("http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7794087/running-javascript-in-selenium-using-python") driver.execute_script("document.getElementsByClassName('comment-user')[0].click()")

Nicolas Gervais · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-14 14:07:15Z

If you move from iframes, you may get lost in your page, best way to execute some jquery without issue (with selenimum/python/gecko):

# 1) Get back to the main body page driver.switch_to.default_content() # 2) Download jquery lib file to your current folder manually & set path here with open('./_lib/jquery-3.3.1.min.js', 'r') as jquery_js: # 3) Read the jquery from a file jquery = jquery_js.read() # 4) Load jquery lib driver.execute_script(jquery) # 5) Execute your command driver.execute_script('$("#myId").click()')

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