selenium-rum

selenium-rum.py

"""
Instructions
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1. install ubuntu deps:
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sudo apt-get python-pip
sudo apt-get install firefox
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
sudo apt-get intall xvfb

2. install python deps:
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sudo pip install selenium
sudo pip install xvfbwrapper

3. install chromedriver:
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wget -N http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.20/chromedriver_linux64.zip
unzip chromedriver_linux64.zip
sudo mv -f chromedriver /usr/local/bin/chromedriver

4. adjust URL in script below.

5. run the script!
"""

import time

from selenium import webdriver
from xvfbwrapper import Xvfb


URL = 'http://foo'
INTERVAL = 15

print 'starting xvfb for virtual display...\n'
with Xvfb() as xvfb:
    while True:
        for browser in ('Firefox', 'Chrome'):
            browser_class = getattr(webdriver, browser)
            print 'starting browser: %s' % browser
            driver = browser_class()
            driver.set_page_load_timeout(10)
            print 'navigating to: %s' % URL
            try:
                driver.get(URL)
            except Exception as e:
                print e
            print 'closing browser\n'
            driver.quit()
        time.sleep(INTERVAL)

Had to install chromium-browser instead of chrome.

updated instructions to say chromium-driver.

added 10 sec pageload timeouts