Disable ChromeDriver messages to stdout with Selenium WebDriver & NodeJS

README.md

Make sure you have the minimum dependencies (e.g. you have run yarn add selenium-webdriver), and edit the file with your chromedriver bin info.

Here is a full writeup

selenium_webdriver_nodejs-disable_chromedriver_logging.js

// @ts-check
const path = require('path');
const { ServiceBuilder, Options: ChromeOptions } = require('selenium-webdriver/chrome');
const webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver');

async function main() {
	// I'm doing this because I hate adding things to my PATH 😅
	// Normally, webdriver will automatically grab the EXE from PATH if you have followed a generic setup guide
	const driverBinPath = path.normalize(`C:\\Users\\Joshua\\Downloads\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe`);
	const serviceBuilder = new ServiceBuilder(driverBinPath);

	/**
	 * SOLUTION:
	 * By excluding the switch from defaults, this should disable the default logging
	 * @see https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromedriver/issues/detail?id=2907#c3
	 */
	const chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();
	chromeOptions.excludeSwitches('enable-logging');

	// Put everything together
	const driver = await new webdriver.Builder()
		.forBrowser('chrome')
		.setChromeService(serviceBuilder)
		.setChromeOptions(chromeOptions)
		.build();

	// Let's try something
	await driver.get(`https://example.com`);
	const title = await driver.getTitle();
	return title;
}

main().then(console.log);