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I have the links to the admin area of my website: it is possible to launch those URIs (links) with selenium (in a given browser) without needing to authenticate previously ? If not, then how could I deal with authentication using selenium ?

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    Selenium doesn't deal with authentication too well. This might be useful for some alternative workarounds: stackoverflow.com/questions/3021602/… Commented Jun 28, 2014 at 7:26
  • What sort of authentication? Commented Jun 30, 2014 at 17:13
  • why to downvote ? :) It is resolved 4 months ago :) Commented Oct 29, 2014 at 10:28

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Not sure what you mean but you can just use selectors and enter credentials to the authentication fields. i.e.

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get(url)
driver.find_element_by_id("IDOFLOGIN").sendKeys("YOUR LOGIN")
driver.find_element_by_id("PASSOFLOGIN").sendKeys("YOUR PASSWORD")
driver.find_element_by_id("login button").click()
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you can find element not necessarily by ID you can also you class, xpath and so on.

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Thanks, this helped me. In my case, though, I needed to add from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys after the first line and then change sendKeys to send_keys

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