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Lighter web automation with Python

10 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 4 stories, 6 comments · first 2020-02-25 · latest 2024-12-11

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    Helium: Lighter Web Automation with Python
    story by mherrmann · 2024-12-11 · 49 comments
  2. …shameless plug for my open source Python library Helium [1], so you don't need a test generator. 1: https://github.com/mherrmann/helium
    comment by mherrmann · 2024-03-14 · in Playwright Test Generator
  3. …or HTML IDs to identify elements, even when they are "recorded". Please please please just use my https://github.com/mherrmann/selenium-python-helium instead. It makes so much more sense.
    comment by mherrmann · 2023-10-19 · in Show HN: Autotab – An AI-powered Chrome extension to create Selenium scripts
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    Selenium-Python but Lighter: Helium
    story by mherrmann · 2023-09-27 · 1 comment
  5. …open source. Under the hood, it uses Selenium 3, which is old. But boy does it work beautifully. 1: https://github.com/mherrmann/selenium-python-helium
    comment by mherrmann · 2022-11-10 · in Web automation: Don't use Selenium, use Playwright
  6. Regarding automatic selectors: check out my open source library https://github.com/mherrmann/selenium-python-helium .
    comment by mherrmann · 2022-06-11 · in Ask HN: Would you be interested in POM generator for Selenium?
  7. Helium is a much better, faster alternative. It offers fallback to Selenium WebDriver. https://github.com/mherrmann/selenium-python-helium
    comment by lcnmrn · 2021-04-06 · in Playwright-test – cross-browser end-to-end test suite with Playwright
  8. …to use. The name comes from Helium also being a chemical element, but lighter than Selenium. 1: https://github.com/mherrmann/selenium-python-helium
    comment by mherrmann · 2020-09-09 · in How we learnt to stop worrying and love web scraping
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    Selenium-Python-helium: Library for web automation (Selenium-Python but lighter)
    story by everydeveloper · 2020-05-04 · 0 comments
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    Show HN: Helium – Lighter web automation based on Selenium
    story by mherrmann · 2020-02-25 · 62 comments