Automation of Stack overflow login

Introduction

This automation task is perfomed in two stages. One is script to login to web page using required credential. This has been achieved by using Selenium package.

To install selenium, open terminal in project location and use below command.

pip install selenium

Then run the script code_selenium.py to perform login task for one time. To run this script everyday, we can take help of task scheduler that is packed in windows or crontabs that comes with unix systems.

code_selenium.py

This python script has method stackoverflow_Login with parameter being email_ID and password we are using chrome driver to access the chrome browser and pass the data to it. Firstly, I define landing page of the website and maximize the window. Then we look for web element name called email in html and pass user’s email_ID.Similarly, we look for web element with name password and send the password keys using selenium’s web driver. Finally, we use selenium’s web driver again to click on the login button in the browser.

Run this script everyday

As i’m using windows platform, To run this script everyday, we can utilise the feature of windows called “Task scheduler”.

Click on below link to learn to open up task scheduler

https://www.isunshare.com/windows-8/open-windows-8-8.1-task-scheduler.html

Once you open task scheduler, Click on Task Scheduler Library and press option Create Basic Task to create task of running python script everyday. Or you can import the task **stackoverflow_login_schedulerTask** from the github to your local task scheduler library.

Click on the below link to create your own basic task.

https://www.weirdgeek.com/2019/04/automating-python-script-to-run-at-specific-time-every-day/