A lightweight, non-opinionated implementation of the WebDriver specification including mobile commands supported by Appium
There are tons of Selenium and WebDriver binding implementations in the Node.js world. Every one of them have an opinionated API and recommended way to use. This binding is the most non-opinionated you will find as it just represents the WebDriver specification and doesn’t come with any extra or higher level abstraction. It is lightweight and comes with support for the WebDriver specification and Appium’s Mobile JSONWire Protocol.
To install this package from NPM run:
$ npm i webdriver
The following example demonstrates a simple Google Search scenario:
import WebDriver from 'webdriver';
(async () => {
const client = await WebDriver.newSession({
path: '/',
capabilities: { browserName: 'firefox' }
})
await client.navigateTo('https://www.google.com/ncr')
const searchInput = await client.findElement('css selector', '#lst-ib')
await client.elementSendKeys(searchInput['element-6066-11e4-a52e-4f735466cecf'], 'WebDriver')
const searchBtn = await client.findElement('css selector', 'input[value="Google Search"]')
await client.elementClick(searchBtn['element-6066-11e4-a52e-4f735466cecf'])
console.log(await client.getTitle()) // outputs "WebDriver - Google Search"
await client.deleteSession()
})()
To create a WebDriver session call the newSession
method on the WebDriver
class and pass in your configurations:
import WebDriver from 'webdriver'
const client = await WebDriver.newSession(options)
The following options are available:
Defines the capabilities you want to run in your Selenium session.
Type: Object
Required: true
Level of logging verbosity.
Type: String
Default: info
Options: trace | debug | info | warn | error | silent
Protocol to use when communicating with the Selenium standalone server (or driver).
Type: String
Default: http
Options: http | https
Host of your WebDriver server.
Type: String
Default: localhost
Port your WebDriver server is on.
Type: Number
Default: 4444
Path to WebDriver endpoint or grid server.
Type: String
Default: /
Query parameters that are propagated to the driver server.
Type: Object
Default: null
Timeout for any WebDriver request to a driver or grid.
Type: Number
Default: 120000
Count of request retries to the Selenium server.
Type: Number
Default: 2
Allows you to use a customhttp
/https
/http2
agent to make requests.
Type: Object
Default:
{
http: new http.Agent({ keepAlive: true }),
https: new https.Agent({ keepAlive: true })
}
Function intercepting HTTP request options before a WebDriver request is made
Type: (RequestOptions) => RequestOptions
Default: none
Function intercepting HTTP response objects after a WebDriver response has arrived
Type: (Response, RequestOptions) => Response
Default: none