selenium-drivers

Node.js binding for selenium browser drivers. Sets up your system environment and keeps drivers up to date for various browsers and operating systems.

• Currently works only with selenium-webdriver package
• Suitable for running locally or with CI
• supported NodeJs: 6.x or above
• by default uses newest drivers (make sure your browser is also up to date)

Make sure your OS & Browser are supported!

installation

npm install selenium-webdriver npm install selenium-drivers

use case

var webDriver = require('selenium-webdriver');
var seleniumDrivers = require('selenium-drivers');

seleniumDrivers.init({

    browserName: 'chrome',
    download: true

}).then(function () {

    var driver = new webDriver.Builder()
        .forBrowser('chrome')
        .build();

    driver.get('http://www.google.com/ncr');
});

options

• browserName: ('chrome' | 'firefox' | 'internet explorer' | 'safari') specify browser name
• silent: (true | false) set to false for verbose output (default: true)
• download: (true | false) automatic latest driver download on start (default: true)
• deactivate: (true | false) deactivate library (useful when running with custom browser capabilities where driver is provided, eg: for sauceLabs, or browserStack) (default: false)

supported browsers

Browser	Operating Systems
Chrome	macOS_64, Windows7,8,10
Firefox	macOS_64, Windows7,8,10
Internet Explorer	Windows7,8,10
Safari	macOS >= ElCaptain

• Nodejs >= 6.x required on all OS.
• No guarantee to run on outdated browsers.

RoadMap

• linux support
• option to set custom browser driver version
• option to set custom browser driver archive url
• custom url pattern
• Edge, Opera, PhantomJS support
• programmatic start/stop feature (for non WebDriverJs usage)