Webbrowser.py

#open a jira isse in the browser
import webbrowser
import sys
import requests
import pyperclip

#get the issue number from the clipboard or in input
if len(sys.argv) == 2 :
    issue = sys.argv[1]
else :
    issue = pyperclip.paste()       #get the content of the clipboard


sURL = r'https://jira.boc-group.com/browse/' + issue
webbrowser.open_new(sURL)

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# get the page we want do download
res = requests.get(sURL)
res.raise_for_status() #exception if the status of the answer from the web is not OK

print(res.status_code) #verify status of the answer to the request

#contet of the page
#print(res.text)

#to parse the HTML in a page retrieved with the request module
#allows to retrieve a specific info from a website
soup = bs4.beautifulsoup4(res.text, 'html.parser')
#the lement is the one we can find in the browser with select element and after copy css path
elems = soup.select(sElement)
#get the text of the element and string all the white spaces
elems[0].text.strip()


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#Selenium start a browser that can be controlled by python, not just getting a page and parsing it
#but actually executing actions with the elements we retrn
#######################
from selenium import webdriver
browser = webdriver.Firefox()  #start firefox
browser.get(sURL)
elem = browser.find_element_by_css_selector(sElement) #one of the many getters for HTML elements
elem.click()

searchElem = browser.find_element_by_css_selector(sElement)
searchElem.send_keys('fabio')
searchElem.submit()  #not necessary to actually find the button and click on okay. Selenium understands which is the form and automatically does it

browser.back()
browser.forward()
browser.refresh()
browser.quit()

#to simply read an HTML element
searchElem = browser.find_element_by_css_selector(sElement)
searchElem.text

searchElem = browser.find_element_by_css_selector('html')  #get the whole page