Using index variable in locator to find a series elements

Introduction

From Clicknium Locator definition, it supports a parametric locator.
Users can use the parametric locator in the automation project to replace the ones with the variables or data. It allows the locator to match a series of elements instead of a single target element.

There are two automation cases to demonstrate how to use index variable in the locator to find a series of elements.

Notes

For more about the installation and the tutorial of Clicknium Automation, please refer to here.

Scraping contact list on the slack client

It is an actual user scenario that needs to grab user list information from a slack channel.

After recording one contact item's locator, the user modifies the locator with an index variable.

Then use loop traversal to locate each contact element and get information.

for i in range(1,13):
    dict = {"index":i}
    if not cc.is_existing(locator.slack.listitem_member, dict):
        continue
    elem_member = ui(locator.slack.listitem_member, dict)
    name = elem_member.get_text()

Scraping playlist from Spotify

It is an actual user scenario, which needs to get the playlist information from spotify.

First, locate "author" and "title" from one item in the playlist.

As the Spotify page is complicated and dynamic, users use "XPath" in the locator. Modify the locator with the index variable.

Then use loop traversal to locate each item in the playlist and get information.

tab = cc.chrome.open("https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6iwz7yurUKaILuykiyeztu")
index = 2

titles = []
artists = []
links = []
while True:
    if not tab.is_existing(locator.chrome.open.div_title, {'index':index}):
        break
    title = tab.find_element(locator.chrome.open.div_title, {'index':index}).get_text()
    artist = []
    link = []
    element = tab.find_element(locator.chrome.open.div_author, {'index':index})
    authers = element.children
    for item in element.children:
        artist.append(item.get_text())
        link.append(item.get_property('href'))

    titles.append(title)
    artists.append(artist)
    links.append(link)
    index += 1
tab.close()