When using the WebDriver driver for Chrome a chrome window opens, and navigates to the specified page.
Is there a way to stop the window from opening?
Edit: I am using it to scrape the web page so there is no need for me to see the actual webpage. The desired behaviour would be that the scraping would be done "Silently"?
What you are talking about is called a headless browser.
You have several options to choose from:
fake a display and let selenium and a browser think you have a real one. See xvfb.
use PhantomJS browser
run your tests against BrowserStack or SauceLabs selenium servers (or have your own one)
See also:
Selenium Headless Automated Testing in Ubuntu
Getting Started with GhostDriver & PhantomJs
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In chrome we have Webrtc-Internals page I am trying to automate this website but I have a problem in doing it when you click on "Create Dump" dropdown we have two checkbox's
and
I am trying to click this element using "--headless" chrome without headless if you click it opens "save as" dialog box which cannot be automated using selenium cause it os-dialog box but when it comes to headless by click nothing popups and check box is not enabling no exceptions was shown, If you have an idea to automates this it would be helpful,
Sample code (Java) :
driver.get("chrome://webrtc-internals/");
driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/p/details/summary")).click();
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[#id='content-root']/details/div/p[5]/label/input")).click();
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[#id='content-root']/details/div/p[1]/label/input")).click();
Thanks on advance!
Tried sendKeys also not working,
In a case it enables but can't save recording, Tried different type of chrome version
How can i turn on headless mode using java and selenium, and after doing some code turn it off and show the current page?
I already tried using options.setHeadless(false) but it did not work.
Refer to this question already asked:
Switching between headed and headless for a single task in Selenium
I currently have some UI tests running in Jenkins using headless Chrome.
I am able to take screenshots but I was wondering how I could record videos from my testruns.
I read that xvfb is a possibility but since headless chrome is available, I was wondering if it would be possible to do this via devtools itself or some Java library.
Thanks in advance.
Regards
I've been using chrome driver (with selenium wedriver), so far it never caused any issue, now for some requirement it has to be in foreground with focus on it.
How can I make sure it is in the foreground?
Just immediately after navigating to your test URL, Maximize and Switch To the new window. It will come in the fore ground (provided you don't interfere with your mouse ;)
browser.navigate().to(test_URL);
browser.manage().window().maximize();
browser.switchTo().window(browser.getWindowHandle());
Finally I found the answer from one of the post, it worked for me, URL:
Bring the Firefox Browser to Front using selenium Java (Mac OSX)
i'm currently working on an automation project that use selenium on Firefox
my test works find as long that i'm not focus on the Firefox windows
once i focus on the Firefox window its immediately freeze without recovery
i disabled all security options and i have no more ideas what to do
so the question is how can i prevent firefox from freezing on me
(i'm working with Firefox version 3.6.28)