Rotate between elite proxies — A common problem while making requests to websites can be getting blocked by them after a while. Using a proxy, especially rotating proxies, can be a solution for that issue. What is a proxy? A proxy server is an application that acts as a middleman between your device and the Internet. Instead of connecting…

How to click ads with different IPs. — Recently, someone from a local freelancing platform asked me to write a program to click ads for a given search query on Google. I sent him a sample but he decided not to buy it, so I decided to publish it here. It uses the Tor network to change the…

Links to all posts in the series Browser Automation with Python and Selenium — 0: Introduction To automate or not to automate?codenineeight.medium.com Browser Automation with Python and Selenium — 1: Installation Towards to starting…codenineeight.medium.com Browser Automation with Python and Selenium — 2: Getting Started A simple example to startcodenineeight.medium.com Browser Automation with Python and Selenium — 3: Architecture Bird’s eye view of Selenium applicationsblog.devgenius.io

Search, sort, and screenshot on YouTube — In this post, I will share an automation on YouTube to search for a query, sort results by view count, and take screenshots of the top three results. Prepare Your Environment We need to create a virtual environment before starting to isolate dependencies from the rest of the system. Run the following commands…

It was a pain. It still is … — I am working as a software engineer for about 7 years. I usually worked with C++ on old, embedded systems. I still feel insufficient what I work on most of the time. I wanted to list the difficulties I have through these years working on platform-dependent projects. 1. Development/Refactoring Project codebases I…

How to control your automation on a remote machine — In the previous post, we looked at the usage of Selenium with the unittest module. We will see how to use WebDriver remotely in this last post of the series. Until now, we executed our automation scripts locally. You can also use WebDriver remotely the same way you would use…

How to use Selenium with Python’s unittest — In the previous post, we explored the page object model for writing a more maintainable and reusable code. We will see the usage of Selenium with Python’s unittest module in this post. Unit tests are used to test the smallest testable parts of a program. Python’s unit testing framework provides…

Page Object Model for better structured and maintainable code — In the previous post, we explored managing window position and dimensions and also taking screenshots with Selenium. We will see Page Object Model(POM) to create more structured and maintainable code in this post. Until now, we have used mostly functions and single modules for our examples. If you try to…

Managing windows and taking screenshots — In the previous post, we looked at controlling mouse actions. We will see how to manage window position and dimensions and also take screenshots in this post. In part 6 of this series, we explored window handles and switching between windows. This post will complete the window related discussion mostly. Window Management …