How to access alert box or console output with selenium in python?

Question

My aim is to access js variable for a particular webpage and I want to print it in terminal/cmd for further process such as writing the Output into a file.

from selenium import webdriver
with open("list_links.txt","rb") as fs:
    data = fs.readlines()
    for line in data:
        print "checking for: ",line 
        baseurl = line
        driver = webdriver.Chrome()
        driver.set_window_size(140, 800)
        driver.get(baseurl)
        driver.execute_script("alert(someVariable)")

where txt file consists for different links and I am opening every page and popping an alert box which is giving me the output in the browser.

Everything is Working Fine, I just want to read/access the output which I am getting in the alert box.

SO, Is there any way to do this?

Also if there any way to read the same from console.log output text, please share.

Andersson · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-31 13:34:02Z

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You can get value of someVariable without reading text content of alerts as follow:

var_text = driver.execute_script("""
                                 var someVariable = "someValue";
                                 return someVariable;
                                 """)

print(var_text) # Output- "someValue"

answered Jan 31, 2017 at 13:34

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bhansa Over a year ago

Thanks Guys, also is there any method to access console output ?

Andersson Over a year ago

You can try to check this stackoverflow.com/questions/15462122/…, but I didn't try it personally, so I don't know whether it could be applicable in your case

NarendraR · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-31 13:04:18Z

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You can try following way to get an alert text

alert = driver.switch_to_alert()
alert_text = alert.text

answered Jan 31, 2017 at 13:04

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