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Simple robot
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This simple Robot Framework robot opens a web page, stores some text content, and takes a screenshot of an image element on the web page.
The robot written in Robot Framework
This version of the robot (tasks.robot) uses Robot Framework syntax:
*** Settings ***
Documentation A simple web scraper robot.
... Opens a website.
... Stores the web page text in a file in the output directory.
... Saves a screenshot of an element in the output directory.
Library RPA.Browser.Selenium
Library RPA.FileSystem
*** Tasks ***
Store Web Page Content
Open Available Browser https://robotframework.org/
${text}= Get Text css:body
Create File ${OUTPUT_DIR}${/}text.txt ${text} overwrite=True
Screenshot css:h1 ${OUTPUT_DIR}${/}screenshot.png
[Teardown] Close Browser
The robot written in Python
For comparison, this is the same robot written in Python (tasks.py):
from RPA.Browser.Selenium import Selenium
from RPA.FileSystem import FileSystem
browser = Selenium()
def store_web_page_content():
browser.open_available_browser("https://robotframework.org/")
text = browser.get_text("css:body")
FileSystem().create_file("output/text.txt", text, overwrite=True)
browser.screenshot("css:h1", "output/screenshot.png")
def main():
try:
store_web_page_content()
finally:
browser.close_browser()
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
Last edit: May 5, 2022