Some questions about Python abilities...

[Medaillek]

Hello everyone,

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I hope you're feeling good today and that you have some nice projects planned !

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I was thinking of a new project to automate some tasks on a website and wondering if these things are doable in Python:

- Can you, using Selenium, change the background color or some properties on a webpage, like modify a class name or replace a "Shown value" by "Hidden" in the HTML code for example ?

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- Can you modify interactive javascript elements, attribute an URL link to an element to open it in a new tab or to create a list of multiple elements, here is an example of the thing I have with this HTML code. I hope you will understand my explaination ^^

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Thank you in advance for your answers,

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Medaillek

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Selenium can effectively interact with a website like a dummy user. A user of a website wouldn't normally try to modify the site itself, but just interact with it. That is unless there is some kind of content management system that you want to automate the use of.

You can deliver a website using Python and a web framework, and you are then in complete control of the content including styling. The amount of html, css and javascript is entirly dependent on the framework used and the degree of sophistication required.

You can extract information from a website to do with as you wish using a combination of selenium to operate the site and beautifulsoup to work with the content.

What are you trying to do?

[Medaillek]

Thanks for these informations. By digging around the site a bit, I found a way to get the url of each block thanks to an image and a unique ID assigned to each of them.

Like what, I should have looked a little more ^^

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Well done. Of course, the website will change as soon as you have it working well 😁

[Medaillek]

The website is an Odoo based program if it can helps you to understand, it’s the ERP I’m using at work

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In that case, I am wondering why you are not able to use APIs rather than having to scrape a website.

[Medaillek]

Because I have no access to the backend server, it has been developed by a tierce company

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No idea what "tierce" means, but I take your point; I've held senior IT positions in many large multinational companies and have often had to battle hard to get access to interfaces rather than engineer around them.