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Windmill is a web testing tool designed to let you painlessly automate and debug your web application.

Windmill is an open source, cross-browser test recorder that helps you record, edit, playback and interact with your tests from one simple interface. It also offers an interactive shell, a proxy API and JavaScript test integration.

http://www.getwindmill.com/

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selenium vs windmill

Selenium vs. Windmill, what are your experiences, what do you recommend?
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Strange stdout behavior in C++

I want my program to display the unix windmill while processing. There's a for loop and in every iteration theres a printf function: printf("Fetching articles (%c)\r",q); q is one of the characters in the windmill (-\|/) depending on the iteration…
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Run a bash command in parallel with xargs

I hope someone can help me with this simple problem. I want to run this command in parallel windmill chrome test=./test http://www.google.ch I was playing around with xargs and looked at the examples in the internet. However, I was not able to…
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How to run a windmill test script

I have recorded some interactions with windmill and when I hit save I get the following (python) script: # Generated by the windmill services transformer from windmill.authoring import WindmillTestClient def test_recordingSuite0(): client =…
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Choosing a Python webscraping framework for handling pure Javascript based sites

I'm a Python programmer specializing in web-scraping, I had to ask this question as I found nothing relevant. I want to know what are the popular, well documented frameworks that are available for Python for scraping pure Javascript based sites?…
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How can write a windmill test which uses an to upload data to the server?

Title says it pretty much all... I'm trying to automate tests on a web application with Windmill, and some of the test need to use forms with input type="file". I know it is not possible to manipulate this with js, but I'm wondering if the Python…
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Document scrape using beautifulsoup4.2 and windmill, how to eliminate "document.write();" from the markup passed to BeautifulSoup constructor

I've finally figured out that BS4 no longer uses "markup massaging" as was the case in BS3. But I still need an analogous way to dispose of the unwanted document.write. You would do the following in BS3, but how to do in BS4? # Javascript code in…
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Python newbie generate random strings

I've recently started using windmill and python to run automated tests of my web application. This is the python script that windmill auto-generated from recording my events: # Generated by the windmill services transformer from windmill.authoring…
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Windmill getPageText function never ends

Some days ago I started a project where I need to create a web scraper. An user suggested me to try Windmill. Everything is fine but I have a problem: when I call to getPageText() function it sometimes hungs and never ends. I have tried some…
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Simulating a browser on Google App Engine

I want to use selenium or windmill inside google app engine in order to scrape a JS filled website. I know that windmill is written in python and javascript. Is this possible? If it is, how do insert the library? If not, could you explain why and…
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Windmill in Python hanging when using getPageText()

I'm trying to write a simple script with Windmill to open a page (which has javascript) and then download the entire html. My code is: from windmill.authoring import setup_module, WindmillTestClient from windmill.conf import global_settings import…
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Windmill AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'settings'

Here is the traceback: File "./test2.py", line 44, in test_scrape client = WindmillTestClient(__name__) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/windmill-1.6-py2.7.egg/windmill/authoring/__init__.py", line 142, in __init__ method_proxy =…
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Windmill-Without web browser

In selenium testing, there is htmlunitdriver which you can run tests without browser with. I need to do this with windmill too. Is there a way to do this in windmill? Thank!
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Windmill not getting all html content

I'm trying to scrape the data off a web page using the python Windmill framework. However I'm having problems getting the HTML table content off a page. The table is generated by Javascript - hence I'm using Windmill to grab the content. However the…
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Web scraping with Python-Windmill (How to accurately wait till a page fully loads)

I have been playing around with windmill to try out some web scraping, however the API waits.forPageLoad is not able to check if the page is fully rendered. And in a scenario where I need to reload a page with an existing DOM and I use…
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