How to slow down the speed of send_keys action in a selenium script using python?
You could insert a pause after each character is sent. For example, if your code looked like this:
el = driver.find_element_by_id("element-id")el.send_keys("text to enter")You could replace it with:
el = driver.find_element_by_id("element-id")text = "text to enter"for character in text: el.send_keys(character) time.sleep(0.3) # pause for 0.3 seconds
Iterating over Mark's answer, you can wrap it up in a reusable function:
import timedef slow_type(element, text, delay=0.1): """Send a text to an element one character at a time with a delay.""" for character in text: element.send_keys(character) time.sleep(delay)Version with type hints:
import timefrom selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement import WebElementdef slow_type(element: WebElement, text: str, delay: float=0.1): """Send a text to an element one character at a time with a delay.""" for character in text: element.send_keys(character) time.sleep(delay)Usage:
el = driver.find_element_by_id("element-id")text = "text to enter"slow_type(el, text)