Run Chrome headless

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Run Chrome headless

The good old PhantomJS times are over. The project is not maintained anymore and it is recommended to switch over to Chrome headless. Just run a local Selenium standalone server:

$ java -jar Sites/selenium-server-standalone-3.4.0.jar

and run a test with the config below. This is tested with Mac OS X and Windows 10. If you have more questions, join our for support.

test.spec.js

describe('runs in headless Chrome', () => {
    it('opens website without browser window', () => {
        browser.url("http://webdriver.io")
        console.log(browser.getTitle())
    })
});

wdio.conf.js

var readline = require('readline')
var hasTriggered = false

exports.config = {
    specs: ['./test.spec.js'],
    capabilities: [{
        browserName: 'chrome',
        chromeOptions: {
            // run in headless mode
            args: ['--headless'],
            // point to your Canary version as it is only supported there
            binary: '/Applications/Google Chrome Canary.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome Canary'
        }
    }],
    framework: 'mocha',
    mochaOpts: {
        timeout: 10000
    }
}