Selenium’s Python Module is built to perform automated testing with Python. Selenium Python bindings provides a simple API to write functional/acceptance tests using Selenium WebDriver. To open a webpage using Selenium Python, checkout – Navigating links using get method – Selenium Python. Just being able to go to places isn’t terribly useful. What we’d really like to do is to interact with the pages, or, more specifically, the HTML elements within a page. There are multiple strategies to find an element using Selenium, checkout – Locating Strategies. Selenium WebDriver offers various useful methods to control the session, or in other words, browser. For example, adding a cookie, pressing back button, navigating among tabs, etc.
This article revolves around get_log driver method in Selenium. get_log method is used to get the log for a given log type.
Syntax –
driver.get_log(log_type)
Example –
Now one can use get_log method as a driver method as below –
driver.get("https://www.neveropen.co.za/")
driver.get_log("browser")
How to use get_log driver method in Selenium Python ?
To demonstrate, get_log method of WebDriver in Selenium Python. Let’ s visit https://www.neveropen.co.za/ and operate on driver object. let’s get log of type browser
Program –
Python3
# import webdriverfrom selenium import webdriver# create webdriver objectdriver = webdriver.Firefox()# get neveropen.co.za# get browser logdriver.get_log("browser") |
Output –
Screenshot of log –
