Running Python Selenium scripts within Chrome Kantu plugin

UI.Vision RPA General Discussion
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I want to write test cases for a website that uses Shadow Root. There is a button within a Shadow Root that I want to automate pressing. I was able to write a Selenium script in Python to press that button. What I am wondering is if there is a way I can included a Python script (preferably Selenium) within the Kantu Chrome Browser extension?

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I can think of three solutions:

  • Forget about the website internals (here: shadow DOM), and use XClick (image of button) or XClick (OCR=text on button) to find and click the button :grinning:

  • You can call your Python script from within a UI Vision macro with the XRun command. This is the solution you asked about.

  • Or the other way around, you can start UI Vision from Python via the command line API

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Thanks for the help!

For XRun, I was wondering if you know how to pass parameters to the script? I would ideally need to be able to pass it an HTML page and have the python script interact with it before determining if my code passed or failed the test.

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You pass the parameters in the value field. If you need to pass a complete HTML page, I would first save it to the hard drive (e.g. with localStorageExport) and then pass the file path to the Python script.

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And if you want to return a value from the Python script to UIVision (e. g. the pass/fail status), you can set the exit code. I think in Python that is done by calls to sys.exit() . The argument to that method is returned to the environment as the exit code.

Inside UIVision, the value is captured in the ${!xrun_exitcode} variable.