✅ Day 3: Basic Browser Interaction with Selenium

Today's focus is on interacting with the browser elements using Selenium. You'll learn how to:

• 1️⃣ Click buttons
• 2️⃣ Type text into input fields
• 3️⃣ Submit forms

By the end of this session, you'll be able to automate Instagram login using dummy credentials.

🧑‍💻 Step 1: Setting Up Selenium

Ensure you have everything set up:

pip install selenium

Download Chromedriver and place it in your project folder:Download Chromedriver

📄 Code to Automate Instagram Login

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
import time

# Setup Chrome options
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-notifications")
chrome_options.add_argument("--start-maximized")

# Initialize the driver
service = Service("chromedriver")  # Update path to your chromedriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service, options=chrome_options)

# Step 1: Open Instagram
driver.get("https://www.instagram.com/")

# Step 2: Wait for the page to load
time.sleep(5)

# Step 3: Find input fields and login button
username_field = driver.find_element(By.NAME, "username")
password_field = driver.find_element(By.NAME, "password")
login_button = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//button[@type='submit']")

# Step 4: Enter credentials
username_field.send_keys("your_dummy_username")
password_field.send_keys("your_dummy_password")

# Step 5: Click the login button
login_button.click()

# Step 6: Wait and close the browser
time.sleep(10)
driver.quit()

🔍 Explanation

driver.get(url): Opens the Instagram website.
find_element(By.NAME, "username"): Finds the username input field by its name attribute.
send_keys(): Sends text input to the input field.
click(): Clicks the Login button to submit the form.
time.sleep(): Waits for a few seconds to allow the page to load.

🛠️ Practical Task

Automate the Instagram login using dummy credentials.

Bonus Task:

Try logging in using different XPath selectors for the login button.

Would you like code snippets for XPath variations? 😊