Python Chrome script

[afrocuban]

This is fork and upgrade of Ivek's selenium script found here:

http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php/topic,4362.msg22691.html#msg22691

For this to work ensure that:

A. You installed python
B. You installed selenium by

pip install selenium

C. You have your Chrome bin on a PATH
D. You have Python folder on your PATH
E. pythonw.exe is not missing, or it's containing folder is on the PATH

This script:

1. Uses Chrome browser instead Firefox
2. Uses chromedriver.exe instead geckodriver
3. Starts chromedriver.exe silently
4. Silently invokes browser in a headless mode (no pop-up windows of browser)
5. Scrapes .htm page of a given url
6. No path is needed to set manually inside the script - it is set to be relative to the path of selenium script!

For using relative path, ensure:

6A. You put this script into "Scripts" folder of your PVD instance.
6B. You put appropirate chromedriver.exe to the "Script" folder, too.

To silently invoke selenium script itself by PVD's .psf script (no pop-up windows of selenium script's cmd window), be sure to use pythonw.exe instead of python.exe, like this for example:

FileExecute('pythonw.exe', '"' + ScriptPath + 'selenium_script-Chrome.py" "' + URL + '" "' + ScriptPath + BASE_DOWNLOAD_FILE_NO_BOM + '"');

Now, the last one will probably be ensured by those who maintain corresponding scripts if interested in, and for now, those are Ivek and me, but be sure to check if it's there anyway.

From this point on, everything is automated and headless.