{"id":2781,"date":"2023-11-26T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T13:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2023-11-19T16:37:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T16:37:23","slug":"desiredcapabilities-browseroptions-in-selenium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/2023\/11\/26\/desiredcapabilities-browseroptions-in-selenium\/","title":{"rendered":"DesiredCapabilities\/BrowserOptions in Selenium\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. headless launch option<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Accept and bypass privacy error<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. disable info bar<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. change height\/width of window<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. run code in incognito mode (private browsing)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. launch browser in mobile view<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    headless launch option<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Let us google search “upgrade to selenium 4”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Click the first search result link https:\/\/www.selenium.dev\/documentation\/webdriver\/troubleshooting\/upgrade_to_selenium_4\/<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Notice below that the DesiredCapabilities is now kind of deprecated. It is replaced by browserOptions() classes like FirefoxOptions, ChromeOptions etc<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Let us see how some of these options work. Launch https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/<\/a> to find out the page title<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    In line#12 below, we are creating a reference \u2018o<\/strong>\u2019 of FirefoxOptions()<\/em> and passing this reference as constructor argument in line#16 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    We have invoked the headless<\/em> in line#13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    When we run our code, the browser does not launch and the page title gets printed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    The exact same thing can be achieved using ChromeOptions() as well, see below<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Before we move ahead, let us comment<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Accept and bypass privacy error<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Launch https:\/\/expired.badssl.com\/<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Below certificate error is seen and to bypass this privacy error, we have to perform some manual steps<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Let us try to run it through selenium and see if we can bypass the privacy error<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Run, see below, we still get the privacy error <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    To bypass the privacy error, we have to simply use the below option and set it to \u2018true\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Now when we run, the error gets bypassed, see below<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    disable info bar<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    When an automation test launches a browser, there is an info bar that is visible, see below, \u201cChrome is being controlled by automated test software\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    We can disable this info bar by setting the option:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    o<\/em>.setExperimentalOption(<\/em>“excludeSwitches”<\/em>, Collections.singletonList(<\/em>“enable-automation”<\/em>));<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Run, now we don\u2019t see the info bar<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    change height\/width of window<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    We can change the window dimensions by setting the highlighted option<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Run, the window dimension changes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    run code in incognito mode (private browsing)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The below setting can be used to open the chrome in incognito mode:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    o<\/em>.addArguments(<\/em>“incognito”<\/em>);<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    launch browser in mobile view<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Let us say we want to launch website in iPhone-x mode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    We can do that by first creating a hashmap reference and then setting the reference as experimental option (see line#28)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Run, see below. The browser launches in iPhone mode and the website is displayed as if we are opening the website in iPhone<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    Below is source code snapshot<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"\"\/<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    So, that\u2019s how we can manipulate different behaviours of our browser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    headless launch option Let us google search “upgrade to selenium 4” Click the first search result link https:\/\/www.selenium.dev\/documentation\/webdriver\/troubleshooting\/upgrade_to_selenium_4\/  Notice below that the DesiredCapabilities is now kind of deprecated. It is replaced by browserOptions() classes like FirefoxOptions, ChromeOptions etc Let us see how some of these options work. Launch https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/ to find out the page title […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-selenium","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2799,"href":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions\/2799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahulshettyacademy.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}