**Install**

If you use [homebrew][1] (which I recommend), you can install selenium using:

    brew install selenium-server

**Running**

*updated -port port_number*

To run selenium, do: `selenium-server -port 4444`


  [1]: http://brew.sh/

For more options: `selenium-server -help`

Mac already has Python and a package manager called `easy_install`, so open Terminal and type

    sudo easy_install selenium

To use the `java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.45.0.jar` command-line tool you need to install a JDK.
You need to download and install the JDK and the standalone selenium server.



First up you need to download Selenium jar files from http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/. Then you&#39;d need an IDE, something like IntelliJ or Eclipse. Then you&#39;ll have to map your jar files to those IDEs. Then depending on which language/framework you choose, you&#39;ll have to download the relevant library files, for example, if you&#39;re using JUnit you&#39;ll have to download Junit 4.11 jar file. Finally don&#39;t forget to download the drivers for Chrome and Safari (firefox driver comes standard with selenium). Once done, you can start coding and testing your code with the browser of your choice. 

I have a string I have gotten from a `routeParam` or a directive attribute or whatever, and I want to create a variable on the scope based on this. So: 

    $scope.&lt;the_string&gt; = &quot;something&quot;.

However, if the string contains one or more dots I want to split it and actually &quot;drill down&quot; into the scope. So `&#39;foo.bar&#39;` should become `$scope.foo.bar`. This means that the simple version won&#39;t work!

    // This will not work as assigning variables like this will not &quot;drill down&quot;
    // It will assign to a variables named the exact string, dots and all.
    var the_string = &#39;life.meaning&#39;;
    $scope[the_string] = 42;
    console.log($scope.life.meaning);  // &lt;-- Nope! This is undefined.
    console.log($scope[&#39;life.meaning&#39;]);  // &lt;-- It is in here instead!
    
When reading a variable based on a string you can get this behavior by doing `$scope.$eval(the_string)`, but how to do it when assigning a value?

Setting dynamic scope variables in AngularJs - scope.&lt;some_string&gt;

I cannot understand what the following code means in terms of `icon-bar`:

&lt;!-- language-all: lang-html --&gt;

    &lt;button type=&quot;button&quot; class=&quot;navbar-toggle&quot; data-toggle=&quot;collapse&quot; data-target=&quot;.navbar-collapse&quot;&gt;
      &lt;span class=&quot;icon-bar&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
      &lt;span class=&quot;icon-bar&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
      &lt;span class=&quot;icon-bar&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;/button&gt;

&lt;!-- language: lang-none --&gt;

What is `icon-bar` for? Why are there three similar instances of it?

This code is in the navigation bar section: 

&lt;!-- language-all: lang-html --&gt;

    &lt;div class=&quot;navbar-header&quot;&gt;
      ...
    &lt;/div&gt;

&lt;!-- language: lang-none --&gt;

&quot;icon-bar&quot; in twitter bootstrap navigation bar

How to install Selenium WebDriver on Mac OS X 10.7.5 supporting Chrome, Firefox and safari ? What I have to set, where to install.

How to install Selenium WebDriver on Mac OS

<p>How to install Selenium WebDriver on Mac OS X 10.7.5 supporting Chrome, Firefox and safari ? What I have to set, where to install.</p>


Everyone at work recommended iTerm2 to me instead of the native Terminal.  But iTerm2 doesn&#39;t seem to allow me to use bash shortcuts like &lt;kbd&gt;Alt&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;B &lt;/kbd&gt; and &lt;kbd&gt;Alt&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;F&lt;/kbd&gt; to jump back/forward between tokens, or &lt;kbd&gt;Alt&lt;/kbd&gt;+&lt;kbd&gt;D&lt;/kbd&gt; to delete a word.

I can&#39;t imagine this isn&#39;t available.  Can anyone help me out?

Bash keyboard shortcuts in iTerm like Alt+d and Alt+f

I get the following error running `curl https://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh` on Mac OSX 10.9 (Mavericks):

    install npm@latest
    curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: Invalid certificate chain
    More details here: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html

How do I fix this?

How to fix curl: (60) SSL certificate: Invalid certificate chain

How can I get `homebrew` to list out all files installed for a package? For example, when I run `brew list` for the exim package, I get these files:

    $ brew list exim
    /usr/local/Cellar/exim/4.80.1/bin/exiwhat
    /usr/local/Cellar/exim/4.80.1/bin/exiqsumm
    /usr/local/Cellar/exim/4.80.1/bin/exiqgrep
    /usr/local/Cellar/exim/4.80.1/bin/exipick
    /usr/local/Cellar/exim/4.80.1/bin/exinext
    /usr/local/Cellar/exim/4.80.1/bin/eximstats
    /usr/local/Cellar/exim/4.80.1/bin/exim_tidydb
    /usr/local/Cellar/exim/4.80.1/bin/exim_lock
    /usr/local/Cellar/exim/4.80.1/bin/exim_fixdb
    /usr/local/Cellar/exim/4.80.1/bin/exim_dumpdb
    /usr/local/Cellar/exim/4.80.1/bin/exim_dbmbuild
    /usr/local/Cellar/exim/4.80.1/bin/exim_ctl
    /usr/local/Cellar/exim/4.80.1/bin/exim_checkaccess
    /usr/local/Cellar/exim/4.80.1/bin/exim-4.80.1-3
    /usr/local/Cellar/exim/4.80.1/bin/exim
    /usr/local/Cellar/exim/4.80.1/bin/exigrep
    /usr/local/Cellar/exim/4.80.1/bin/exicyclog
    /usr/local/Cellar/exim/4.80.1/share/man/man8/exim.8


But there are files added to the system that is not in the list above. For example:

    $ ls -ld /usr/local/etc/exim.conf 
    -rw-r--r--  1 hanxue  admin  35904 Sep 25 21:11 /usr/local/etc/exim.conf






List all files in a homebrew package

So I installed the beta of JDK 8 a while ago to look at some of the examples. I thought for sure by now, it&#39;s easy to change between versions. 

Doing some Play development with IntelliJ. For some reason, IntelliJ is compiling with 8 even though:

* I have the compiler set in Preferences to use 1.6
* Supposedly it&#39;s using SBT through external build, but sbt from the command line works
* JAVA_HOME is pointing to JDK 6.

If I go to the Java Preferences page, it does show 8 installed, but there is no option to uninstall it and it doesn&#39;t see any of the other versions.

When I do `which java`, it tells me `/usr/bin/java` and I do `/usr/bin/java -version` and it returns 1.6.

Note: with a  little fiddling, you can use IntelliJ and JDK7, see [here][1].


  [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13019199/how-do-i-run-idea-intellij-on-mac-os-x-with-jdk-7

Removing Java 8 JDK from Mac

I&#39;m trying to set up a server with python from mac terminal. 

I navigate to folder location an use: 

    python -m SimpleHTTPServer

But this gives me error: 

    socket.error: [Errno 48] Address already in use

I had previously open a connection using the same command 
for a different website in a different location in my machine.



socket.error: [Errno 48] Address already in use

I&#39;m trying to write a test with selenium in python language for a web page that manages users. In this page someone can add role for users and if a role exists while adding it, an alert raises. I don&#39;t know if the alert is a javascript alert or an element of the web page. I want to automatically check the existence of the alert, because checking for the role in the list wastes time and has an enormous load. I tried this:

    browser = webdriver.Firefox()
    browser.get(&quot;url&quot;)
    browser.find_the_element_by_id(&quot;add_button&quot;).click()
    try:
        alert = browser.switch_to_alert()
        alert.accept()
        print &quot;alert accepted&quot;
    except:
        print &quot;no alert&quot;

But it didn&#39;t work and I got the &quot;UnexpectedAlertPresentException&quot;.
I also tried this:

    browser = webdriver.Firefox()
    browser.get(&quot;url&quot;)
    browser.find_the_element_by_id(&quot;add_button&quot;).click()
    s = set(browser.window_handles)
    s.remove(browser.current_window_handle)
    browser.switch_to_window(s.pop()) 

But I got the same exception.
Additionally, I tried to access the alert with firebug to check if I can get access with its properties, but right click was disabled.
I need a solution very quickly, even in other languages. I can understand the approach anyway.
I will appreciate any help.

Check if any alert exists using selenium with python

The following is a bunch of links `&lt;a elements.` ***ONLY one** of them has a substring &quot;long&quot; as a value for the attribute href*

    &lt;a class=&quot;c1&quot; href= &quot;very_lpng string&quot; &gt; name1 &lt;/a&gt;
    &lt;a class=&quot;g2&quot; href= &quot;verylong string&quot; &gt; name2 &lt;/a&gt;   // The one that I need
    &lt;a class=&quot;g4&quot; href= &quot;very ling string&quot; &gt; name3 &lt;/a&gt;
    &lt;a class=&quot;g5g&quot; href= &quot;very ng string&quot; &gt; name4 &lt;/a&gt;
    
    ...................

I need to click the link whose `href` has substring &quot;long&quot; in it. How can I do this?

PS: `driver.findElement(By.partialLinkText(&quot;long&quot;)).click();` // b/c it chooses by the name

How to click a link whose href has a certain substring in Selenium?

Sometimes on a page I&#39;ll be looking for an element which may or may not be there. I wanted to try/catch this case with a `NoSuchElementException`, which selenium was throwing when certain HTML elements didn&#39;t exist. Original exception:

    NoSuchElementException: Message: u&#39;Unable to locate element: {&quot;method&quot;:&quot;css selector&quot;,&quot;selector&quot;:&quot;#one&quot;}&#39; ; Stacktrace: 
        at FirefoxDriver.prototype.findElementInternal_ (file:///var/folders/6q/7xcjtgyj32nfc2yp_y5tr9pm0000gn/T/tmp63Mz2a/extensions/fxdriver@googlecode.com/components/driver_component.js:8899)
        at FirefoxDriver.prototype.findChildElement (file:///var/folders/6q/7xcjtgyj32nfc2yp_y5tr9pm0000gn/T/tmp63Mz2a/extensions/fxdriver@googlecode.com/components/driver_component.js:8911)
        at DelayedCommand.prototype.executeInternal_/h (file:///var/folders/6q/7xcjtgyj32nfc2yp_y5tr9pm0000gn/T/tmp63Mz2a/extensions/fxdriver@googlecode.com/components/command_processor.js:10840)
        at DelayedCommand.prototype.executeInternal_ (file:///var/folders/6q/7xcjtgyj32nfc2yp_y5tr9pm0000gn/T/tmp63Mz2a/extensions/fxdriver@googlecode.com/components/command_processor.js:10845)
        at DelayedCommand.prototype.execute/&lt; (file:///var/folders/6q/7xcjtgyj32nfc2yp_y5tr9pm0000gn/T/tmp63Mz2a/extensions/fxdriver@googlecode.com/components/command_processor.js:10787) 

Ironically, it won&#39;t let me catch this exception which it was throwing before? Code here:

    elt = driver.find_element_by_css_selector(&#39;.information&#39;)
    try:
        dat1 = elt.find_element_by_css_selector(&#39;#one&#39;).text
        dat2 = elt.find_elements_by_css_selector(&#39;#two&#39;)[1].text
        text = dat1 + dat2
    except NoSuchElementException:
        text = elt.find_element_by_css_selector(&#39;#all&#39;).text
        item.set_description(text)

Error here:

    NameError: name &#39;NoSuchElementException&#39; is not defined

Googling/documentation came up with nothing...and it strikes me as strange that selenium is fine throwing an exception but can&#39;t catch it. 

python selenium webscraping &quot;NoSuchElementException&quot; not recognized

I am trying to select an option from a drop down for the angular e2e tests using protractor.

Here is the code snippet of the select option:

    &lt;select id=&quot;locregion&quot; class=&quot;create_select ng-pristine ng-invalid ng-invalid-required&quot; required=&quot;&quot; ng-disabled=&quot;organization.id !== undefined&quot; ng-options=&quot;o.id as o.name for o in organizations&quot; ng-model=&quot;organization.parent_id&quot;&gt;
        &lt;option value=&quot;?&quot; selected=&quot;selected&quot;&gt;&lt;/option&gt;
        &lt;option value=&quot;0&quot;&gt;Ranjans Mobile Testing&lt;/option&gt;
        &lt;option value=&quot;1&quot;&gt;BeaverBox Testing&lt;/option&gt;
        &lt;option value=&quot;2&quot;&gt;BadgerBox&lt;/option&gt;
        &lt;option value=&quot;3&quot;&gt;CritterCase&lt;/option&gt;
        &lt;option value=&quot;4&quot;&gt;BoxLox&lt;/option&gt;
        &lt;option value=&quot;5&quot;&gt;BooBoBum&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;/select&gt;


I have tried:

    ptor.findElement(protractor.By.css(&#39;select option:1&#39;)).click();

**This gives me the following error:**

An invalid or illegal string was specified
Build info: version: &#39;2.35.0&#39;, revision: &#39;c916b9d&#39;, time: &#39;2013-08-12 15:42:01&#39;
System info: os.name: &#39;Mac OS X&#39;, os.arch: &#39;x86_64&#39;, os.version: &#39;10.9&#39;, java.version: &#39;1.6.0_65&#39;
Driver info: driver.version: unknown

I have also tried:

    ptor.findElement(protractor.By.xpath(&#39;/html/body/div[2]/div/div[4]/div/div/div/div[3]/ng-include/div/div[2]/div/div/organization-form/form/div[2]/select/option[3]&#39;)).click();

**This gives me the following error:**

&gt; ElementNotVisibleError: Element is not currently visible and so may not be interacted with
Command duration or timeout: 9 milliseconds
Build info: version: &#39;2.35.0&#39;, revision: &#39;c916b9d&#39;, time: &#39;2013-08-12 15:42:01&#39;
System info: os.name: &#39;Mac OS X&#39;, os.arch: &#39;x86_64&#39;, os.version: &#39;10.9&#39;, java.version: &#39;1.6.0_65&#39;
Session ID: bdeb8088-d8ad-0f49-aad9-82201c45c63f
Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver
Capabilities [{platform=MAC, acceptSslCerts=true, javascriptEnabled=true, browserName=firefox, rotatable=false, locationContextEnabled=true, version=24.0, cssSelectorsEnabled=true, databaseEnabled=true, handlesAlerts=true, browserConnectionEnabled=true, nativeEvents=false, webStorageEnabled=true, applicationCacheEnabled=false, takesScreenshot=true}]


Can anyone please help me with this problem or throw some light on what i might be doing wrong here.




How to select option in drop down protractorjs e2e tests

I&#39;m trying to set up some selenium tests to our staging server using Sauce Labs. It&#39;s behind a basic http auth, so theoretically I could set the selenium URL to `http://user:password@www.stagesite.com`. *However,* the password contains a &quot;@&quot;, causing all sorts of problems as you can imagine. I tried escaping it with a backslash but that did nothing from what I can tell.

So,

1. is there an alternative way to do http authentication using selenium, i.e., not via the URL. Or,

2. is there a way to use URL-based auth but somehow tell the browser that the &quot;@&quot; is part of the password?

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"icon-bar" in twitter bootstrap navigation bar

Setting dynamic scope variables in AngularJs - scope.<some_string>

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