On MacOS or Windows 10 it will use a Linux virtual machine. Installation is relatively simple on Linux. There are plenty of great articles out there for that - so today, we're just going to be using it as a web scraping tool. It excels in the automation of user stories. Unless you're using a headless browser (more on that later), selenium will open up your browser of choice and, depending on the code you wrote, will perform each action you've told it to perform.Ī lot of people use selenium for writing functional tests for a code base.
When we tell selenium to click an element on the screen, it will do literally that. This is really cool because it allows us to write code that is essentially human as far as the website is concerned.
#DJANGO SCREENIT DRIVERS#
Selenium and its drivers allow you to operate a browser in real-time.
That's no problem, though! We have Selenium. The data we can get is the data the router's http server can show in html. In this instance, there's no public REST api to use. Sometimes, a website or service will expose a RESTful API for you, greatly simplifying this task. The first task is to figure out where your data is, and how you can extract it. This isn't exactly "big data" (or even hacking, for that matter) nevertheless some of the core principles used in data mining will help us here. Part 1: Scraping Connected Device Information While this post is a very specific use-case of selenium, it is my hope that you will still be able to learn plenty and avoid some common mistakes on your own projects.
#DJANGO SCREENIT HOW TO#
Below is a tutorial on how to do something similar. So I decided to "hack" it, clean the data, and have the information sent to me via email whenever there's an important update. Unfortunately there's not an easy way to get custom firmware onto the router. I got fed up with my router's web interface and decided I wanted to automate some of these tasks. Occasionally, I need to check out which devices are connected to my network, their MAC addresses, how much time they have left on their DHCP lease, etc. Lately, I've been having to check my router somewhat frequently.
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