Selenium WebDriver Commands

We will discuss the various commands provided by WebDriver some of the basic selenium commands for performing operations like opening a URL, get the title of the webpage and closing browser etc.

Below are the most commonly used selenium commands provided by the webdriver for Browser and Navigation.

1)  Get() method:

get() method is used to loading web Page on to the current browser. It accepts String as a parameter

          Ex: driver.get(“https://google.com”)

2)  Title() method

title() method fetches the title of the current web page.it returns the string value.

Ex: driver.title

3)  Current_url() method

Current_url() method fetches the current url of the opened browser. It returns the string value.

Ex: driver.current_url

4)  Page_source() method

Page_source method fetches the source code of the opened browser. It returns the string value.

Ex: driver.page_source()

5)  Maximize_window() method

Maximize_window() method  is used to maximized your currently opened browser.

      Ex: driver.maximize_window()

6)  Minimize_window() method

Minimize_window()  method is used to minimized your currently opened browser.

Ex: driver.minimize_window()

7)  Refresh() method

Refresh() method is used to refresh your currently opened browser.

Ex: driver.refresh()

8)  Forward() method

Forward() method is used to navigating  to forward in browser history.

Ex: driver.forward()

9)  back() method

back() method is used to navigating  to backward in browser history.

Ex: driver.back()

10) close() method

Close() method is used to close currently active browser.

Ex: driver.close()

11) quit() method

       Quit() method is used to close all opened browser which are associated to driver. This command basically shuts down the driver instance and any further commands to WebDriver results in exception.

      Ex: driver.quit()

Below is the script for above command/methods

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
chromePath="C:\\BrowserDrivers\\chromedriver.exe"

driver=webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=chromePath)

driver.get("http://newtours.demoaut.com")

# maiximize the window
driver.minimize_window()

# get the title of the web page
title=driver.title
print("title of the Page is ",title)

# get the current url
currenturl= driver.current_url
print("Current url of the web page is ",currenturl)

# get the source code of the page
pagesoruce=driver.page_source
print("soruces code of the current page is ")
print("-----------------------------------------------------------------------------")
print(pagesoruce)
print("-----------------------------------------------------------------------------")

# refresh the page
driver.refresh()

# nagivate to backward
driver.back()

# close the current window
driver.close()