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();

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!