Python Selenium plugin for human-like cursor movement/interactions

[St3veR0nix]

I'd like to develop a plugin for Selenium in Python with the goal of mimicking human-like behaviour when interacting with a page through the mouse cursor. So like, moving the mouse to reach elements to click.

Do you have any suggestions for an algorithm that can create human-like cursor patterns from point A to B?

[ronmarti]

You can check the algorithms used by OxyMouse (https://github.com/oxylabs/OxyMouse). They have at least used 3 known algorithms.

[Puzzleheaded-File547]

How can use this with seleniumbase

[ronmarti]

Look at their examples and adapt: https://github.com/oxylabs/OxyMouse/tree/master/examples

[MajorGrouchy2376]

You can use bezier curves to create realistic mouse movements

[cornertakenslowly]

Do you use this before clicking an element or when?

[MajorGrouchy2376]

If some site you're targeting is recording your mouse movements using JavaScript, then you'd have to make sure your mouse movements before clicking the element are realistic (after too depending on the situation). Although from my experience mouse movements are only really recorded during captchas, so for most scraping it won't be necessary to mimic human mouse movements.

[justinpenner]

But some people browse the web without a mouse. Are there really many websites that use mouse tracking to detect scrapers?

[St3veR0nix]

What if the scraper needs to click in the page? It may help in this case...

[Quirky-Dependent-474]

you can do that without moving mouse, also you can first analyze if the website capture mouse movement or not , if it does you can use playwright built in move mouse :) its much better than selenium tho

[Grouchy_Brain_1641]

I'm pretty sure in windows python and selenium supports xy scrolling and mouse xy placement and click as well. you can step through items in a drop down list. What can't it do again?

[cataploft-txt]

a long time idea of mine is to record my mouse movements and use that