joachimdunkel / start_selenium_webdriver

One simple selenium webdriver start script that (tries to) take care of binary locations and dependendencies in a platform independent manner.

start_selenium_webdriver

One simple selenium webdriver start script that (tries to) take care of binary locations and dependendencies in a platform independent manner.

Example:

from start_selenium_webdriver.webdriver_startup import start_web_driver

# The package will take care of everything.
driver = start_web_driver()

Note

Only works with firefox atm. and therefore needs a valid firefox installation.

Roadmap

• Support Chrome webdriver

Contributions & Improvments

Be encouraged to send pull-requests for any kind of improvment.

start_selenium_webdriver's Issues

Make chrome available

Switching between firefox and or chrome could be done with a flag or an enum.

Internally the chrome driver dependencies should be resolved the aswell.

Should work on linux and windows atleast

Make project inclusion simpler

Currently using the project in a python file is done like so:

from start_selenium_webdriver.webdriver_startup import start_web_driver

This is unecessarily long. It should be something like:

import start_selenium_webdriver

Maybe we can change the method name to .start() or .bring_up()
So the inclusion and usage is generally not so repetitive

Does not work for windows with firefox

selenium.common.exceptions.InvalidArgumentException: Message: binary is not a Firefox executable

Investigate how to fix that