What does this Python script do?

Uses Selenium (in Python) to:

• login¹ to the NextVIP Application/webpage
• delete the specified NextVIP Journal IDs one by one via the webpage interface
• log the entire process to the console² (Includes failures and reasons; like timeouts etc.)

¹ Users must enter their username and password. These are not stored.

² Script designed such that output may be piped to a file.

Usage

• Edit the NextVIP() function (in the script) to include the list of Journal IDs you want to delete.
• Comment out the sys.exit() failsafe in the login() method
• Run the script the same way you run other python scripts (ie. python Selenium_DeleteJournalsFmNextVIP.py - or similar - at the command prompt)

If the script fails to get a webdriver you may have to download a newer driver version.
See the webdriver folder for instructions.

Why was this script written?

I was asked to delete several thousand Journal IDs by hand.
(ie. login and manually search for and delete each Journal ID)

This was estimated to take around two weeks full-time.

Instead I got permission to automate the process.

Why isn't the code perfectly cleaned up?

The code was only intended to be used once.

Hence it's not perfectly cleaned up, named, re-factored etc.

Why is this script archived here?

As a useful starting point for future Selenium work (a quick refresher of Selenium etc)