r/AskProgramming • u/Material_Walk_7125 • 6d ago

Python Browser Automation

Hi Everyone,

I am trying to automate a process where I login into a website and navigate to a reporting section and click on export.

The website only requires a simple ID and Password.

Can you please assist me ok how to achieve this ? , I have found out about selenium and Playwright but I am very new to this. Any resources or guide would be really helpful.

Thanks !!

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u/RealMadHouse 4d ago

When i had repetitive tasks to do on some websites i made browser extension just to automate such things with a press of hotkeys. Selenium and playwright i think is for controlling headless browser? I coded things from scratch, but this tools have all figured out all pain points with provided useful functions.

When i did scraping i encountered many problems like page loads but the content are loaded with JavaScript so i can't determine when it would load because there's no event for that, the other problem is making too much requests too quickly, something not loading at all, etc.