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Selenium::Chrome(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Selenium::Chrome(3)

Selenium::Chrome - Use ChromeDriver without a Selenium server

version 1.37

    my $driver = Selenium::Chrome->new;
    # when you're done
    $driver->shutdown_binary;

This class allows you to use the ChromeDriver without needing the JRE or a selenium server running. When you refrain from passing the "remote_server_addr" and "port" arguments, we will search for the chromedriver executable binary in your $PATH. We'll try to start the binary connect to it, shutting it down at the end of the test.

If the chromedriver binary is not found, we'll fall back to the default Selenium::Remote::Driver behavior of assuming defaults of 127.0.0.1:4444 after waiting a few seconds.

If you specify a remote server address, or a port, we'll assume you know what you're doing and take no additional behavior.

If you're curious whether your Selenium::Chrome instance is using a separate ChromeDriver binary, or through the selenium server, you can check the "binary_mode" attr after instantiation.

Optional: specify the path to your binary. If you don't specify anything, we'll try to find it on our own via "which" in File::Which.

Optional: specify the port that we should bind to. If you don't specify anything, we'll default to the driver's default port. Since there's no a priori guarantee that this will be an open port, this is _not_ necessarily the port that we end up using - if the port here is already bound, we'll search above it until we find an open one.

See "port" in Selenium::CanStartBinary for more details, and "port" in Selenium::Remote::Driver after instantiation to see what the actual port turned out to be.

Optional: specify any additional command line arguments you'd like invoked during the binary startup. See "custom_args" in Selenium::CanStartBinary for more information.

Optional: specify how long to wait for the binary to start itself and listen on its port. The default duration is arbitrarily 10 seconds. It accepts an integer number of seconds to wait: the following will wait up to 20 seconds:

    Selenium::Chrome->new( startup_timeout => 20 );

See "startup_timeout" in Selenium::CanStartBinary for more information.

Optional: Throw instead of searching for additional ports; see "fixed_ports" in Selenium::CanStartBinary for more info.

Call this method instead of "quit" in Selenium::Remote::Driver to ensure that the binary executable is also closed, instead of simply closing the browser itself. If the browser is still around, it will call "quit" for you. After that, it will try to shutdown the browser binary by making a GET to /shutdown and on Windows, it will attempt to do a "taskkill" on the binary CMD window.

    $self->shutdown_binary;

It doesn't take any arguments, and it doesn't return anything.

We do our best to call this when the $driver option goes out of scope, but if that happens during global destruction, there's nothing we can do.

Please see those modules/websites for more information related to this module.
Selenium::Remote::Driver

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website <https://github.com/teodesian/Selenium-Remote-Driver/issues>

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

Current Maintainers:
  • Daniel Gempesaw <gempesaw@gmail.com>
  • Emmanuel Peroumalnaïk <peroumalnaik.emmanuel@gmail.com>

Previous maintainers:

  • Luke Closs <cpan@5thplane.com>
  • Mark Stosberg <mark@stosberg.com>

Original authors:

Aditya Ivaturi <ivaturi@gmail.com>

Copyright (c) 2010-2011 Aditya Ivaturi, Gordon Child

Copyright (c) 2014-2017 Daniel Gempesaw

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

2020-02-18 perl v5.32.1

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