I want to capture the traffic to sites I'm browsing to using Selenium with python and since the traffic will be https using a proxy won't get me far.
My idea was to run phantomJS with selenium to and use phantomJS to execute a script (not on the page using webdriver.execute_script(), but on phantomJS itself). I was thinking of the netlog.js script (from here https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/blob/master/examples/netlog.js).
Since it works like this in the command line
phantomjs --cookies-file=/tmp/foo netlog.js https://google.com
there must be a similar way to do this with selenium?
Thanks in advance
Update:
Solved it with browsermob-proxy.
pip3 install browsermob-proxy
Python3 code
from selenium import webdriver
from browsermobproxy import Server
server = Server(<path to browsermob-proxy>)
server.start()
proxy = server.create_proxy({'captureHeaders': True, 'captureContent': True, 'captureBinaryContent': True})
service_args = ["--proxy=%s" % proxy.proxy, '--ignore-ssl-errors=yes']
driver = webdriver.PhantomJS(service_args=service_args)
proxy.new_har()
driver.get('https://google.com')
print(proxy.har) # this is the archive
# for example:
all_requests = [entry['request']['url'] for entry in proxy.har['log']['entries']]
I am using a proxy for this
from selenium import webdriver
from browsermobproxy import Server
server = Server(environment.b_mob_proxy_path)
server.start()
proxy = server.create_proxy()
service_args = ["--proxy-server=%s" % proxy.proxy]
driver = webdriver.PhantomJS(service_args=service_args)
proxy.new_har()
driver.get('url_to_open')
print proxy.har # this is the archive
# for example:
all_requests = [entry['request']['url'] for entry in proxy.har['log']['entries']]
the 'har' (http archive format) has a lot of other information about the requests and responses, it's very useful to me
installing on Linux:
pip install browsermob-proxy