Selenium vs DataKund

Features	Selenium	DataKund
Coding experience	Required	Not Required
Customer Support	Open-source Community	Dedicated support
API Support	Cannot perform actions through apis	Can call apis
Maintenance	Slight change in website can make the code fail	Don't fail with slight changes in website
Inspection of Elements	Need to inspect elements to write code	It records itself
Time	Takes time in writing code	Takes no time in making apis
Dependencies	Depends on driver,selenium module and programming language	No programming language or driver needed
Locators knowledge	Knowledge of locators such as id, class etc needed	No such knowledge needed

Following are some of the other differences between Selenium and DataKund:-

Open Link

Action	Selenium	DataKund
Open Link	`driver.get("https://www.datakund.com")`	Start recorder and open link

Action	Selenium	DataKund
Open Link	`element=driver.find_element_by_id("login") element.click()`	Start recorder and click on button(wherever you want)

Action	Selenium	DataKund
Type text in input	`element=driver.find_element_by_id("email") element.send_keys("datakund@datakund.in")`	Start recorder and click on input and type

Action	Selenium	DataKund
Open New Tab	`driver.execute_script("window.open('https://www.datakund.com');")`	Just start recording and open new tab

Action	Selenium	DataKund
Switch to tab	`WindowsHandles=driver.window_handles window =WindowsHandles[-1] driver.switch_to_window(window)`	Just switch to tab after starting recording

Action	Selenium	DataKund
Solving Re-Captcha	You need to user external service e.g 2Captcha service to solve	Automatically detects and solves captcha

Action	Selenium	DataKund
Click on every search result	Find common things by inspecting then loop over them(attributes can change)	Apply repeat by Alt+P , then do your repeated action next

Action	Selenium	DataKund
Search different keywords	Will need a variable to change search value	Automatically detects variables and you need to just change values

Action	Selenium	DataKund
Sending bulk messages on linkedin having their links in sheet	Will need to write both selenium as google apis code which takes time	Just make a simple api of sending message to one profile and attach google sheet to it

Action	Selenium	DataKund
Click on button	`iframe_element=driver.find_element_by_xpath("html/div/iframe") driver.switch_to_iframe(iframe_element) button=driver.find_element_by_id("log_in") button.click`	Just click on button

Action	Selenium	DataKund
Showing actions in flow chart	No way of representing flow of actions except manually writing	You can see your actions in flow charts, can edit and delete actions as well

Action	Selenium	DataKund
Writing selenium code in nodejs	You will need to learn programming language to write selenium for other languages	Provides code section, just copy code of desired language from there and run