How to automatically update blogger page with selenium driver

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You can use selenium driver to automatically update your blogger page.

Step 1. create a new default maven project

Step 2. change the default maven project's pom.xml, add the selenium dependencies. 

The maven pom.xml is the following:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">

  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

  <groupId>blogger</groupId>

  <artifactId>bloger-updater</artifactId>

  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>

  <packaging>jar</packaging>

  <name>bloger-updater</name>

  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

  <properties>

    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>

  </properties>

  <dependencies>

    <dependency>

      <groupId>junit</groupId>

      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>

      <version>3.8.1</version>

      <scope>test</scope>

    </dependency>

    <dependency>

        <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>

        <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>

        <version>2.53.0</version>

    </dependency>

    <dependency>

        <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>

        <artifactId>selenium-chrome-driver</artifactId>

        <version>2.53.0</version>

    </dependency>

    <dependency>

        <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>

        <artifactId>htmlunit-driver</artifactId>

        <version>2.21</version>

    </dependency>

    <dependency>

        <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>

        <artifactId>selenium-server</artifactId>

        <version>2.53.0</version>

    </dependency> 

  </dependencies>

</project>

Step 3. drop the following code into your java folder, replace those Change_ME.

The automation code is the following.

Basically, you login google account, then edit your post then submit. Selenium driver will drive a local firefox browser to do these automatically.

package blogger.bloger_updater;

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptExecutor;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedCondition;

import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;

public class BloggerTestPageUpdater  {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        // Create a new instance of the Firefox driver

        // Notice that the remainder of the code relies on the interface, 

        // not the implementation.

        WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

        //System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/Users/homenetwork/Downloads/chromedriver");

        //WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

        

        //Launch the Online Store Website

        driver.get("http://www.gmail.com");

        // Print a Log In message to the screen

        System.out.println("Successfully opened the website gmail.com");

        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

        //Maximize window

        driver.manage().window().maximize();

        

        //Enter Username

        driver.findElement(By.id("Email")).sendKeys("Change_ME");

        //Click on Next

        driver.findElement(By.id("next")).click();

        // Wait For Page To Load

        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

        //Enter Password

        driver.findElement(By.id("Passwd")).sendKeys("Change_ME");

        

        // Click on 'Sign In' button

        driver.findElement(By.id("signIn")).click();

        

        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

        driver.navigate().to("https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=Change_ME#editor/target=post;postID=Change_ME");

        

        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

        //WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("postingComposeBox"));

        WebElement iframe = driver.findElement(By.id("postingComposeBox"));

        driver.switchTo().frame(iframe);

        WebElement description = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("body"));

        ((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("arguments[0].innerHTML = '<p>from selenium driver</p>'", description);

        driver.switchTo().defaultContent();

        

        driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[contains(.,'Update')]")).click();

        

        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

        

        driver.navigate().to("http://xyzcode.blogspot.com/2016/04/test-page.html");

        //Close the browser

        //driver.quit();

    }

}

step 4. right click the project, select run as maven install

step 5. right click BloggerTestPageUpdater.java, select run as Java Application

The following page then get updated

http://xyzcode.blogspot.com/2016/04/test-page.html