tenfourfox/testing/marionette/client/docs/interactive.rst

Using the Client Interactively
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Once you installed the client and have Marionette running, you can fire
up your favourite interactive python environment and start playing with
Marionette. Let's use a typical python shell:

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   python

First, import Marionette:

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   from marionette import Marionette

Now create the client for this session. Assuming you're using the default
port on a Marionette instance running locally:

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   client = Marionette(host='localhost', port=2828)
   client.start_session()

This will return some id representing your session id. Now that you've
established a connection, let's start doing interesting things:

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   client.execute_script("alert('o hai there!');")

You should now see this alert pop up! How exciting! Okay, let's do
something practical. Close the dialog and try this:

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   client.navigate("http://www.mozilla.org")

Now you're at mozilla.org! You can even verify it using the following:

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   client.get_url()

You can even find an element and click on it. Let's say you want to get
the first link:

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   from marionette import By
   first_link = client.find_element(By.TAG_NAME, "a")

first_link now holds a reference to the first link on the page. You can click it:

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   first_link.click()