Simple Auto Login Bot

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A Simple Auto Login Bot

Things we need:

Python
Selenium
A chrome webdriver

First we need to import the following things:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
import time

If you don't have selenium installed, go install it by entering this command :

pip install selenium

Now We need to create a function, which accepts username, password, and a target url:

def startbot(username, password, url):

    path = "chromedriver.exe"
    service = Service(path)

    driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service)

    driver.get(url)
    time.sleep(10)
    driver.close()

what this code does is, it opens the chromedriver, goes to the target
url, waits for 10 second, and closes it

but what we want is a auto login bot, so it needs to find the input respective input fields. For this we are gonna use a test login page.

test_login_site

the test login page:

to find the input fields, we do the following thing:

    driver.find_element(By.NAME, "username").send_keys(username)
    driver.find_element(By.NAME, "password").send_keys(password)
    driver.find_element(By.ID, "submit").click()

this finds the input fields by name, you can find the names given to input fields by inspecting the page, send_keys will set the username and password we've given. for the above test login the username and password are : student and Password123

Now here's the complete code:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
import time


def startbot(username, password, url):

    path = "chromedriver.exe"
    service = Service(path)

    driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service)

    driver.get(url)

    driver.find_element(By.NAME, "username").send_keys(username)

    driver.find_element(By.NAME, "password").send_keys(password)


    driver.find_element(By.ID, "submit").click()

    print("successfully login")
    time.sleep(10)
    driver.close()


startbot("student", "Password123",
         "https://practicetestautomation.com/practice-test-login/")