Helium

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Features

Text-Based Element Discovery - Locates web elements by scanning for visible human-readable text labels instead of technical identifiers like XPaths.
Browser Automation Testing - Provides a high-level Python library for simulating real user interactions to test web application functionality.
Heuristic Element Matching - Uses heuristic matching against multiple HTML attributes to identify the most likely target web element.
Element Interaction - Provides high-level APIs to interact with web elements using human-readable labels for stable automation scripts.
UI Automation - Verifies user interface elements and workflows using a label-based interaction model.
Selenium WebDriver Automations - Provides a high-level Python wrapper around Selenium WebDriver to automate browser-native actions.
Browser Automation Interfaces - Offers a high-level interface for programmatically controlling browsers for automation and data extraction.
UI Element Interactions - Performs standard automated actions such as clicking, typing, and selecting values on page elements.
Web Task Automations - Automates routine browser chores such as form filling and navigation to reduce manual effort.
Spatial-Relative Element Mapping - Identifies target elements by calculating their visual coordinates relative to a known reference element.
Web Data Scraping - Extracts structured data from multiple web pages by automating browser navigation and content waiting.
Automation Wait Conditions - Pauses execution until defined page states or element visibility conditions are met using wait mechanisms.
Browser-Based Workflow Automations - Automates the movement of data and triggering of actions across multiple websites to connect web services.
Automatic Frame Switching - Provides automatic context switching to interact with elements inside nested iframes without manual driver shifts.
Bulk Element Operations - Retrieves all occurrences of specific element types or selectors to facilitate bulk data scraping.
Relative Element Location - Finds web elements based on their spatial relationship to other reference elements on the page.
Element Wait Conditions - Waits for specific elements to appear or conditions to be met to ensure automation stability.
IFrame Context Resolvers - Automatically manages execution contexts to interact with elements inside nested iframes.
Web Scraping Frameworks - Provides a toolkit for extracting data from websites by automating browser interactions and element retrieval.
Web Scraping - High-level Selenium wrapper for web automation.

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