Selenium With Python: Newline With Shift+enter Works But Messes Up The Text

May 03, 2024 Post a Comment

I'm trying to automate sending messages and hence I need to go to a newline and I do it by using Shift+Enter like answered in this thread. This is my code: string = f'Lorem ipsum d

Solution 1:

you have to reset the actions to remove the actions in memory else it will repeat the previous actions also when you perform it:

if you are using selenium v3:

THere are two solutions:

First one:

Move action declaration inside the for loop:

for part instring.split('\n'):
    action = webdriver.ActionChains(driver)
    action.send_keys(part)
    action.key_down(Keys.SHIFT).key_down(Keys.ENTER).key_up(
        Keys.ENTER).key_up(Keys.SHIFT).perform()

This will reset the action sequence

Second appraoch:

there is reset_actions() method in action chain for this purpose , but there is abug:

https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/6837

so use below approach:

for part in string.split('\n'):
    print(part)
    action.send_keys(part)
    action.key_down(Keys.SHIFT).key_down(Keys.ENTER).key_up(
        Keys.ENTER).key_up(Keys.SHIFT).perform()
    action.w3c_actions.clear_actions()
    for device in action.w3c_actions.devices:
      device.clear_actions()

If you are using selenium v4:

The bug is fixed :

to install selenium v4: pip install selenium==4.0.0.a7

for part instring.split('\n'):
    action.send_keys(part)
    action.key_down(Keys.SHIFT).key_down(Keys.ENTER).key_up(
        Keys.ENTER).key_up(Keys.SHIFT).perform()
   action.reset_actions()

Solution 2:

please let me now if it work for you

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the string is splitted by newline operator so you have to enhance it with an extra linebreak..

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

driver = webdriver.Chrome('/home/stefan/Downloads/chromedriver')
driver.get("https://pastebin.com/")
text_area = driver.find_element_by_id("postform-text")

string = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet\nconsectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean commodo ligula eget dolor. Aenean massa.\n\nPS: Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus."#action = ActionChains(browser)for part instring.split('\n'):
        print(part)
        text_area.send_keys(part)
        text_area.send_keys(Keys.ENTER)
                      
#action.key_down(Keys.SHIFT).key_down(Keys.ENTER).key_up(Keys.ENTER).key_up(Keys.SHIFT).perform()
            
driver.close()

the output i got is:

update - send as a single msg

if you want to send it as a single message, then you dont have to split it

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

driver = webdriver.Chrome('/home/stefan/Downloads/chromedriver')
driver.get("https://pastebin.com/")
text_area = driver.find_element_by_id("postform-text")

string = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet\nconsectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean commodo ligula eget dolor. Aenean massa.\n\nPS: Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus."

# send assingle message
text_area.send_keys(part)
text_area.send_keys(Keys.ENTER)
 
driver.close()

update 2 - specially for messengers

if i am right you want to push multiple keys to get a new line in your messenger, so you can try text_area.send_keys(Keys.SHIFT + Keys.ENTER).perform();

for part instring.split('\n'):
        text_area.send_keys(part)
        text_area.send_keys(Keys.SHIFT + Keys.ENTER).perform();

Solution 3:

In the meantime, I have done it in a horrible and nonscalable way, but it does the job for now.

Here's the code:

one = 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet'
two = 'Consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean commodo ligula eget dolor. Aenean massa.'
last = 'PS: Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.'

action = ActionChains(browser)
def newline():
    action.key_down(Keys.SHIFT).key_down(Keys.ENTER).key_up(Keys.ENTER).key_up(Keys.SHIFT)

action.send_keys(one)
newline()
action.send_keys(two)
newline()
newline()
action.send_keys(last)
action.perform()

I won't accept this answer, since it's pretty bad, so if anyone would like to give a better and cleaner answer, is fully welcome.

Solution 4:

You can directly send strings using webelements. First you need to find the element where you want to pass the strings and you directly send strings to it.

Ex:

string='strings to be added'
element=browser.find_element_by_xpath("xpath of the element")
element.send_keys(string)

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