Adding gmail selenium example.

neotycoder · neotycoder · commit de277cb09593 · 2020-05-23T20:47:19.000-07:00
diff --git a/gmail_login_example.py b/gmail_login_example.py
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+from selenium import webdriver
+import time
+import stdiomask
+
+# Enter your gmail credentials
+username = input("Enter your gmail user id: ")
+
+# In this example, I am using stdiomask to hide the entry of the password entry.
+# This will store it into a variable for it to be used when passing this onto 
+# the webdriver object.
+# Note: Using stdiomask does not encrypt your password, it only masks the entry. 
+# Do not consider stdiomask as a completel secure transport protocol. It's only 
+# a masking tool. 
+
+password = stdiomask.getpass("Enter Password: ")
+
+# Build the webdriver object. Use it to instantiate the use of the Firefox browser.
+# Note: You can utilize other browser drivers, do a search on webdriver options.
+
+driver = webdriver.jFirefox()
+driver.get("http://gmail.google.com")
+
+# Time to send the credentials over to the driver object. 
+driver.find_element_by_id("identifierId").send_keys(username)
+driver.find_element_by_id("identifierNext").click()
+time.sleep(5)
+
+# Note: At the time of the testing of this, the password is not passing into the field.
+# The userid on the other hand is passing to the user name is updating in the browser.
+# I don't feel like traversing the mounds of javascript code on google website, but if anyone
+# wants to, and update that script that would be nice.
+# I'm just providing this as an example of selenium, and some future reference should I need to 
+# do this for a project someday.
+driver.find_element_by_name("input[type=password]").send_keys(password)
+driver.find_element_by_id("passwordNext").click()
+time.sleep(5)
