📅 2025-06-07 — Session: Debugged Selenium Automation for LinkedIn
🕒 20:45–21:35
🏷️ Labels: Selenium, Linkedin, Debugging, Automation, Web Scraping
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The primary goal of this session was to troubleshoot and debug various issues encountered while using Selenium for web automation tasks on LinkedIn.
Key Activities
- Troubleshooting Selenium with Chrome Remote Debugging: Addressed common issues and provided a workflow to ensure successful navigation using Selenium with Chrome’s remote debugging.
- LinkedIn Search Bar Issues: Diagnosed problems with locating the LinkedIn search bar due to UI changes and timing issues, and provided solutions such as manual testing and extending timeouts.
- Selenium Navigation and Debugging: Outlined steps for resolving navigation problems and emphasized the importance of browser control and remote debugging setup.
- Understanding Limitations: Explored the limitations of using Selenium with Chrome’s remote debugging and provided workarounds for effective interaction with web elements.
- LinkedIn Messaging Automation: Detailed steps for automating LinkedIn messaging using Selenium, highlighting the need for manual profile tab opening.
- Improving Stacktrace Readability: Discussed methods to enhance Selenium stacktrace readability for better debugging.
- Browser Extensions and Content Security Policies: Analyzed issues caused by browser extensions and content security policies when using Selenium on LinkedIn.
- XPath Optimization: Revised XPath selectors for better reliability in Selenium scripts.
Achievements
- Successfully identified and addressed multiple issues affecting Selenium’s performance on LinkedIn.
- Improved the robustness of Selenium scripts through better error handling and XPath optimization.
Pending Tasks
- Further testing of the revised scripts to ensure stability across different LinkedIn UI versions.
- Continuous monitoring of LinkedIn’s UI changes to update automation scripts accordingly.