helium

Helium is a high-level Python library used to automate Chrome and Firefox browsers. It uses the Selenium infrastructure in the background and allows to identify web elements with user-friendly tags instead of HTML selectors. iFrame management provides additional features such as pop-up tracking and standbys that come by default.

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mherrmann · Web Scraping & Automation

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VERSIONv7.0.3
UPDATED9 days ago
PythonWeb AutomationSeleniumBrowserMIT

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What can it do?
  • You automate Chrome and Firefox browsers with Python.
  • Instead of HTML selectors, you access web elements with user tags.
  • With Selenium commands, you combine Helium functions in the same project.
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  • ↓ NegativeHacker News

    iPhones are allergic to helium

    “> Sorry -- do you have a citation on that? If popping party balloons could disable iphones, I think we'd hear about it more often. (I can't find anything about it on a quick search, and I hope I can be excused for missing an analogy that depended on an invalid premise!) Some of…”

  • • NeutralHacker News

    iPhones are allergic to helium

    “I really have no idea...but I don't think so! Or at least if the kinetic diameter is the smallest hole something can fit through it can't? Helium's is 260pm or 0.26nm so that could be the limit. But the actual atomic diameter has a couple different calculated and observed values…”

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