selenium-webdriver and selenium-standalone example

README.md

This example shows you how to use selenium-webdriver and selenium-standalone in modern versions with Firefox, Chrome and Safari and without the promise manager.

index.js

const selenium = require('selenium-standalone');
const {
  Builder,
  By,
  until,
  Capability,
  Capabilities,
  Browser,
  promise
} = require('selenium-webdriver');

// these are the same things (the last one has maximum flexibility):
// new Builder().forBrowser('firefox')
// new Builder().withCapabilities(Capabilities.firefox())
// new Builder().withCapabilities(new Capabilities().set(Capability.BROWSER_NAME, Browser.FIREFOX))

// https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/WebDriverJs#moving-to-asyncawait
promise.USE_PROMISE_MANAGER = false;

// default url from selenium-standalone
const url = 'http://localhost:4444/wd/hub';

console.log('Try to run test!');
selenium.install(err => {
  if (err) {
    throw err;
  }
  console.log('Installed Selenium.');

  selenium.start((err, child) => {
    if (err) {
      throw err;
    }
    console.log('Started Selenium.');
    
    // note!: if you use a transpiler or Node 8, you really want to use async/await here ♥

    // we can't await `driver` directly, because of a bug
    // see https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/4268
    const driver = new Builder()
      .forBrowser('chrome')
      // if you don't want to use Chrome choose a different browser here:

      // You must enable the 'Allow Remote Automation' option in Safari's Develop menu to control Safari via WebDriver.
      // .forBrowser('safari')

      // .forBrowser('firefox') // doesn't work currently, use the next lines instead
      // .withCapabilities(
      //   new Capabilities()
      //     .set(Capability.BROWSER_NAME, Browser.FIREFOX)
      //     .set('acceptInsecureCerts', true) // it looks like this is currently needed
      // )

      .usingServer(url)
      .build(); // returns `driver`

    driver.getSession().then(() => {
      console.log('Got session.');
      driver
        .get('http://www.google.com/ncr')
        .then(() => driver.findElement(By.name('q')).sendKeys('webdriver'))
        .then(() => driver.findElement(By.name('btnG')).click())
        .then(() =>
          driver.wait(until.titleIs('webdriver - Google Search'), 1000)
        )
        .then(() => {
          console.log('Quit session session.');
          return driver.quit();
        })
        .then(() => {
          console.log('Killed child process.');
          child.kill();
        })
        .catch(err => console.log('An ERROR!?', err));
    });
  });
});

package.json

{
  "dependencies": {
    "selenium-standalone": "^6.5.0",
    "selenium-webdriver": "^3.4.0"
  }
}