Selenium Web Driver Set Chrome Options

setChromeOptions.js

//import the selenium web driver
var webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver');

var chromeCapabilities = webdriver.Capabilities.chrome();
//setting chrome options to start the browser fully maximized
var chromeOptions = {
    'args': ['--test-type', '--start-maximized']
};
chromeCapabilities.set('chromeOptions', chromeOptions);
var driver = new webdriver.Builder().withCapabilities(chromeCapabilities).build();

@EzequielCaballero you just damn awesome, bro

Took me. while to figure this ChromeOptions in javascript nodejs out.

Reasons:

• You cannot say import { Options } from "selenium-webdriver/chrome"; - no idea why to be honest
• Testing it with start-maximized is a bad idea. Didn't work for me. setMobileEmulation or my blink-settings argument work
• It is really confusing because there are Capabilities, Options, DesiredCapabilities ChromeOptions etc. and you can load Options from capabilities and such strange things

Here my working example where I disable all images through command line argument (pretty obvious if it works):

import webdriver from "selenium-webdriver";
import chrome from "selenium-webdriver/chrome";

export const getNewChromeWrapperDriver = () => {
  // var chromeCapabilities = webdriver.Capabilities.chrome();

  const chromeOptions = new chrome.Options();
  chromeOptions.addArguments("--blink-settings=imagesEnabled=false");

  var driver = new webdriver.Builder()
    .forBrowser("chrome")
    // .withCapabilities(chromeCapabilities)
    .setChromeOptions(chromeOptions)
    .build();

  const seleniumWrapper = {
    webdriver: webdriver,
    driver: driver,
    quit: async () => {
      await driver.quit();
    }
  };

  return seleniumWrapper;
};

As you can see chromeCapabilities are not needed in contrast to some solutions above.

Usage:

import { getNewChromeWrapperDriver } from "./helper/seleniumWrapper.mjs";

const { driver, webdriver } = getNewChromeWrapperDriver()

I kept finding this gist so I thought I add my snippet here...

Thank you!!!

Addition to my comment. I've now upgraded to node 12 since it is now LTS and ran into this issue:
ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND selenium-webdriver/chrome

Since import of selenium-webdriver/chrome does no longer work
import chrome from "selenium-webdriver/chrome"; //broken

Here is my workaround:

import require from "requirejs";
const chrome = require("selenium-webdriver/chrome"); //works

This again took me quite a while to find out so I hope this helps!

Is it possible to disable w3c using this config?

dose anyone knows how to do the same with firefox. (open firefox with a specific profile path)

some good source: https://chromedriver.chromium.org/capabilities
and https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/

The new syntax for nodejs (NOTE: the key value)
chromeCapabilities.set("goog:chromeOptions", options);

Thank you

Thanks @qquach

thanks @EzequielCaballero

You rock!

For newer versions of Node with ES modules enabled (14+)

import chrome from 'selenium-webdriver/chrome.js';

let opts = new chrome.Options();
opts.excludeSwitches('enable-automation'); // disable 'Chrome is being controlled by automation' banner

Sample code for 2024

import {Builder, Capabilities} from 'selenium-webdriver';

const caps = Capabilities.chrome();
caps.set('goog:chromeOptions', {
    'args': ['--headless']
});

const driver =  new Builder()
    .forBrowser('chrome')
    .withCapabilities(caps)
    .build();

(async () => {
    await driver.get('https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/');
    // ...
    await driver.quit();
})();

It was hard to find this gist, thanks!