hey community I am following a tutorial on selenium from freecodecamp and I am using Facebook to test I am using a MacBook I installed my chromedriver using brew
I run into my first issue which is alert and I want to disable alerts and have no idea how to add it to my chrome since it opens on its own without declaring a driver path please help all answers shows a path being declared and using chrome options to disable it but I am inheriting from Webdriver.Chrome adding a new chrome such as driver = Webdriver.Chrome()
creates two instances of chrome each time I run it using the snippet of my code below I need help using chromeoptions to disable alerts
import facebook.constants as const
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
import time
class FacebookBot(webdriver.Chrome):
"""a class to control and automate a facebook bot for srappping"""
def __init__(self, teardown=False):
self.teardown = teardown
super(FacebookBot, self).__init__()
self.implicitly_wait(20)
def __exit__(self, *args) -> None:
if self.teardown:
self.quit()
return super().__exit__(*args)
def facebook_homepage(self):
"""navigating the facebook scrapper bot to the facebook home page."""
self.get(const.BASE_URL)```
so I was able to pass this after studying more about classes...I just hope what I am doing is pythonic so here is the code snippet that did the magic for me.
I passed the option to the init method of the class
import facebook.constants as const
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
import time
import os
class FacebookBot(webdriver.Chrome):
"""a class to control and automate a facebook bot for srappping"""
def __init__(self, driver_path=r"/opt/homebrew/bin/chromedriver", teardown=False):
options = Options()
options.add_argument("--disable-notifications")
self.driver_path = driver_path
os.environ["PATH"] += self.driver_path
self.teardown = teardown
super(FacebookBot, self).__init__(options=options)
# self.maximize_window()
self.implicitly_wait(20)
def __exit__(self, *args) -> None:
if self.teardown:
self.quit()
return super().__exit__(*args)
def facebook_homepage(self):
"""navigating the facebook scrapper bot to the facebook home page."""
self.get(const.BASE_URL)