Detect user click

Question

I am logging into a website using my own credentials, but 2FA is active. Therefore, I need a way to "pause" the script until I manually click the button with my mouse.

Note that the button is always clickable, so using an explicit wait like element_to_be_clickable obviously will not work.

I know how to do this with input() via command prompt, but I would rather deal with the browser manually since the rest of the script also requires manual browser interaction.

I also know that I could wait until the script detects a certain number of inputted characters, but I do not like this approach because typos.

I know I could use an explicit wait in order to detect something on the following page, but I want to avoid this way in case I ever need to step away from the keyboard before submitting the data. However, I could set an unreasonably long wait period e.g. WebDriver(driver, 999999999), but this approach seems super hacky.

Any ideas?

Dawdle

I know how to do this with input() via command prompt - we can even automate this part. so that you will not have to do any manual interaction – Perforate

@Perforate i dont want to manually interact with command prompt and the code will be random based on my cellphones authentication app or are you suggesting another way? – Dawdle

in python you can handle command prompt input I believe, we don't need Selenium for command prompt. Could you tell me briefly, what exactly your manual steps. – Perforate

@Perforate steps are: (1) execute the script from command prompt; (2) script navigates to website and submits credentials; (3) website displays prompt requesting 2FA code -- at this point, i would like to manually check my phone to get the 2FA code and then manually enter it into the browser and manually click submit, but i cannot think of any practical way to pause execution of the script until i manually hit the "submit" button – Dawdle

@Perforate one way i just thought of was to literally attach a JS addEventListener('click'... with execute_script, but this seems really hackish too :/ – Dawdle

Check with your ops team, they may give you an environment where you do not need 2FA at all. It should get by pass. – Perforate

@Perforate im not crawling my own website... im running this script on the open web. do u have any ideas or no? – Dawdle

Answer 1

Here is a solution that may not work for everybody. Poll the URL...

poll_rate = 1
current_url = driver.current_url
while driver.current_url == current_url:
  time.sleep(poll_rate)

Can anybody come up with a better solution?!

I am shocked that it is almost impossible to detect user input in a practical manner.

Dawdle