Record without ipdb

[elsheikh21]

I would like to record user web actions using sbase mkrec recording.py --url=http://google.com . I want some help with the following

1. when the user closes the browser, the recording is saved.
2. I want to remove import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace() or automatically enter c in terminal and remove

my script is as follows:

def user_prompt_title(filename, url_str):
    url_valid = validate_url(url_str)
    if url_valid:
        if os.path.exists(filename):
            os.remove(filename)
        os.system(f"sbase mkrec {file_name} --url={string_}")

desired behavior:
when the above script is run by user input (irrelevant how to this question) when the user closes the browser. The recording is saved as a pytest file normally

[mdmintz]

Hi @elsheikh21 There's a section of https://seleniumbase.io/help_docs/recorder_mode/ that tells you about splitting the main recorder command into 4 separate commands:

sbase mkfile TEST_NAME.py --rec

pytest TEST_NAME.py --rec -q -s

sbase print ./recordings/TEST_NAME_rec.py -n

cp ./recordings/TEST_NAME_rec.py ./TEST_NAME.py

This should give you the flexibility that you need to reach the behavior that you're looking for.
The ipdb is needed to pause the script for adding manual actions, but if you just run the recorder without the pause (pytest --rec on any script) then it will record the actions already specified by the test, even without an ipdb.

For single-URL recordings, you can call self.activate_recorder() from your test to activate the recorder for that page alone.

[elsheikh21]

Okay perfect, so can I make the recording stop and save to TEST_NAME.py file when user closes browser?

[mdmintz]

@elsheikh21 Yes, however pytest must close the browser (Recorder Mode processing is part of the tearDown phase).

[elsheikh21]

@mdmintz Okay perfect, I am sorry but can you please guide me on how to do that?
Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions :)

[mdmintz]

@elsheikh21 Does it work if you just add self.activate_recorder() inside your test when you want to record?

[elsheikh21]

sorry for the naivete of what I am going to ask, but where can I add that line of code?

[mdmintz]

@elsheikh21 Anywhere in your test when you want to record.

[elsheikh21]

so shall I do os.system(f"sbase mkfile {file_name} --rec && pytest {file_name} --rec -q -s && sbase print ./recordings/{file_name} -n && cp ./recordings/{file_name} ./{file_name}") or shall I ignore that and start my script by self.activate_recorder() ? and when it finishes what I do?
Is there like an example script to follow?

[mdmintz]

@elsheikh21 Just try with self.activate_recorder() inside your test first.
Add the import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace() if you need to pause the test.

[elsheikh21]

@mdmintz
okay so I did the following

import validators
from tkinter import messagebox


def start_recording(file_name, string_url):
    string_url = string_url.strip()
    bool_ = validators.url(string_url)
    if not bool_:
        messagebox.askretrycancel(
            "Retry?", 'Please enter a valid URL e.g. "https://google.com"'
        )
    else:
        if os.path.exists(file_name):
            os.remove(file_name)
        os.system(f"sbase mkrec {file_name} --url={string_url}")

When I convert the file to .exe the output in the command line -when I try to run the exe- is that sbase is not a known command, is there a solution for that?

I have as well tried to implement a class of mine that inherits seleniumBase.BaseClass as follows:

from seleniumbase import BaseCase


class MyRecorderTests(BaseCase):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(BaseCase, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

    def test_recording(self):
        self.activate_recorder()
        # if self.recorder_ext and not self.xvfb:
        # import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace()

and I try to invoke MyRecorderTests.test_recording() it outputs the following

 It looks like you are trying to call a SeleniumBase method
 from outside the scope of your test class's `self` object,
 which is initialized by calling BaseCase's setUp() method.```

[mdmintz]

@elsheikh21 For the first part, I'm not sure what tool you're using to covert Python to EXE, but it looks like that tool isn't doing something correctly. (Maybe a bug with that tool?)
For the second part, you can't invoke MyRecorderTests.test_recording() from within a Python file because you have to run test_recording() via pytest from the command-line in order to parse command-line arguments that get processed in the setUp() method before each test. There is a way to perform initialization without using pytest, and here's an example of that: https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/blob/master/examples/raw_parameter_script.py
(You can call that with python instead of using pytest.)

[elsheikh21]

@mdmintz For the first part, I am using pyinstaller do you recommend something else?

so the convert to exe command is just as follows pyinstaller main.py and when it runs, this happens

[elsheikh21]

and that is the full script

import tkinter as tk
import os
import validators
from tkinter import TclError, messagebox
from RecorderTests import MyRecorderTests


def validate_url(url_):
    return validators.url(url_)


def start_recording(file_name, string_url):
    string_url = string_url.strip()
    bool_ = validate_url(string_url)
    if not bool_:
        messagebox.askretrycancel(
            "Retry?", 'Please enter a valid URL e.g. "https://google.com"'
        )
    else:
        if os.path.exists(file_name):
            os.remove(file_name)
            
        # mrt = MyRecorderTests(url=string_url)
        # mrt.test_recording()
        os.system(f"sbase mkrec {file_name} --url={string_url}")



def execute_playback(file_name):
    os.system(f"pytest {file_name} --verbose --capture=no")


def create_tkinter_gui(file_name):
    window = tk.Tk()
    window.title("WEB MKA-E | SCREEVO")
    window.geometry("360x175")
    try:
        window.iconbitmap("logo.ico")
    except TclError:
        pass

    frame = tk.Frame(window)
    frame.pack()

    a = tk.StringVar()
    tk.Label(window, text="Enter URL you would like to automate your process").pack()
    entry = tk.Entry(window, textvariable=a)
    entry.pack()
    entry.focus()
    entry.bind("<Return>", (lambda _: start_recording(file_name, a.get())))
    tk.Button(
        window, text="Record", command=lambda: start_recording(file_name, a.get())
    ).pack()

    tk.Label(window, text="playback your latest recorded actions on the web").pack()
    tk.Button(
        window, text="Playback", command=lambda: execute_playback(file_name)
    ).pack()

    # Bring form to topfront
    window.lift()
    window.attributes("-topmost", True)
    window.after_idle(window.attributes, "-topmost", False)

    window.mainloop()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    file_name = "recording.py"
    create_tkinter_gui(file_name)

Pyinstaller v4.7
Python 3.7.11 x64
sbase v2.1.9

[mdmintz]

@elsheikh21 I made a small change and it works now:

os.system(f"python -m sbase mkrec {file_name} --url={string_url}")

Use python -m sbase