sync-node-webdriver

Sync implementation of the WebDriver protocol in Node.js.

Install

On Ubuntu, you need to make sure you have libcurl installed. sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev

npm install webdriver-http-sync

WebDriver API

WebDriver

driver = new WebDriver(serverUrl, desiredCapabilities, httpOptions)

Method	Description
driver.navigateTo(url)	Navigates the browser to the specificed relative or absolute url. If relative, the root is assumed to be http://127.0.0.1:#{applicationPort}, where applicationPort is passed in to the options for testium.runTests.
driver.refresh()	Refreshes the browser.
driver.getElement(cssSelector)	Finds an element on the page using the cssSelector and returns an Element.
driver.getElements(cssSelector)	Finds all elements on the page using the cssSelector and returns an array of Elements.
driver.setElementTimeout(milliseconds)	Sets a timeout for WebDriver to find elements with getElement and getElements.
driver.getUrl()	Returns the current url of the page.
driver.getPageTitle()	Returns the current page title.
driver.getPageSource()	Returns the current page's html source.
driver.getScreenshot()	Returns screenshot as a base64 encoded PNG.
driver.evaluate(javascriptString)	Executes the given javascript. It must contain a return statement in order to get a value back.
driver.setCookie(Cookie)	Sets a cookie on the current page's domain. Cookie = { name, value, path='/' }
driver.getCookies()	Returns all cookies visible to the current page.
driver.clearCookies()	Deletes all cookies visible to the current page.
driver.acceptAlert()	Accepts the visable alert.
driver.dismissAlert()	Dismisses the visable alert.
driver.getAlertText()	Gets the visable alert's text.
driver.typeAlert(text)	Send text to the visable alert's input box.
driver.close()	Closes the WebDriver session.

Element

element = driver.getElement(selector)

Method	Description
element.get(attribute)	Returns the element's specified attribute, which can be text, which returns the visisble text of that element.
element.isVisible()	Returns true if the element is visiable.
element.type(strings...)	Sends strings... to the input element.
element.clear()	Clears the input element.
element.click()	Calls click on the element.

Contributing

There are 97 WebDriver methods! The progress of implementing all of them is visualized below.

The most important and often used methods are already implemented. You can help out by implementing more methods.

Status	HTTP Method	Path	Summary
	GET	/status	Query the server's current status.
	POST	/session	Create a new session.
	GET	/sessions	Returns a list of the currently active sessions.
	GET	/session/:sessionId	Retrieve the capabilities of the specified session.
	DELETE	/session/:sessionId	Delete the session.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/timeouts	Configure the amount of time that a particular type of operation can execute for before they are aborted and a Timeout error is returned to the client.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/timeouts/async_script	Set the amount of time, in milliseconds, that asynchronous scripts executed by /session/:sessionId/execute_async are permitted to run before they are aborted and a Timeout error is returned to the client.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/timeouts/implicit_wait	Set the amount of time the driver should wait when searching for elements.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/window_handle	Retrieve the current window handle.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/window_handles	Retrieve the list of all window handles available to the session.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/url	Retrieve the URL of the current page.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/url	Navigate to a new URL.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/forward	Navigate forwards in the browser history, if possible.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/back	Navigate backwards in the browser history, if possible.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/refresh	Refresh the current page.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/execute	Inject a snippet of JavaScript into the page for execution in the context of the currently selected frame.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/execute_async	Inject a snippet of JavaScript into the page for execution in the context of the currently selected frame.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/screenshot	Take a screenshot of the current page.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/ime/available_engines	List all available engines on the machine.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/ime/active_engine	Get the name of the active IME engine.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/ime/activated	Indicates whether IME input is active at the moment (not if it's available.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/ime/deactivate	De-activates the currently-active IME engine.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/ime/activate	Make an engines that is available (appears on the listreturned by getAvailableEngines) active.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/frame	Change focus to another frame on the page.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/window	Change focus to another window.
	DELETE	/session/:sessionId/window	Close the current window.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/window/:windowHandle/size	Change the size of the specified window.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/window/:windowHandle/size	Get the size of the specified window.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/window/:windowHandle/position	Change the position of the specified window.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/window/:windowHandle/position	Get the position of the specified window.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/window/:windowHandle/maximize	Maximize the specified window if not already maximized.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/cookie	Retrieve all cookies visible to the current page.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/cookie	Set a cookie.
	DELETE	/session/:sessionId/cookie	Delete all cookies visible to the current page.
	DELETE	/session/:sessionId/cookie/:name	Delete the cookie with the given name.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/source	Get the current page source.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/title	Get the current page title.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/element	Search for an element on the page with a CSS selector, starting from the document root.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/elements	Search for multiple elements on the page with a CSS selector, starting from the document root.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/element/active	Get the element on the page that currently has focus.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/element/:id	Describe the identified element.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/element/:id/element	Search for an element on the page, starting from the identified element.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/element/:id/elements	Search for multiple elements on the page, starting from the identified element.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/element/:id/click	Click on an element.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/element/:id/submit	Submit a FORM element.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/element/:id/text	Returns the visible text for the element.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/element/:id/value	Send a sequence of key strokes to an element.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/keys	Send a sequence of key strokes to the active element.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/element/:id/name	Query for an element's tag name.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/element/:id/clear	Clear a TEXTAREA or text INPUT element's value.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/element/:id/selected	Determine if an OPTION element, or an INPUT element of type checkbox or radiobutton is currently selected.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/element/:id/enabled	Determine if an element is currently enabled.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/element/:id/attribute/:name	Get the value of an element's attribute.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/element/:id/equals/:other	Test if two element IDs refer to the same DOM element.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/element/:id/displayed	Determine if an element is currently displayed.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/element/:id/location	Determine an element's location on the page.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/element/:id/location_in_view	Determine an element's location on the screen once it has been scrolled into view.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/element/:id/size	Determine an element's size in pixels.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/element/:id/css/:propertyName	Query the value of an element's computed CSS property.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/orientation	Get the current browser orientation.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/orientation	Set the browser orientation.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/alert_text	Gets the text of the currently displayed JavaScript alert(), confirm(), or prompt() dialog.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/alert_text	Sends keystrokes to a JavaScript prompt() dialog.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/accept_alert	Accepts the currently displayed alert dialog.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/dismiss_alert	Dismisses the currently displayed alert dialog.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/moveto	Move the mouse by an offset of the specificed element.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/click	Click any mouse button (at the coordinates set by the last moveto command).
	POST	/session/:sessionId/buttondown	Click and hold the left mouse button (at the coordinates set by the last moveto command).
	POST	/session/:sessionId/buttonup	Releases the mouse button previously held (where the mouse is currently at).
	POST	/session/:sessionId/doubleclick	Double-clicks at the current mouse coordinates (set by moveto).
	POST	/session/:sessionId/touch/click	Single tap on the touch enabled device.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/touch/down	Finger down on the screen.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/touch/up	Finger up on the screen.
	POST	session/:sessionId/touch/move	Finger move on the screen.
	POST	session/:sessionId/touch/scroll	Scroll on the touch screen using finger based motion events.
	POST	session/:sessionId/touch/scroll	Scroll on the touch screen using finger based motion events.
	POST	session/:sessionId/touch/doubleclick	Double tap on the touch screen using finger motion events.
	POST	session/:sessionId/touch/longclick	Long press on the touch screen using finger motion events.
	POST	session/:sessionId/touch/flick	Flick on the touch screen using finger motion events.
	POST	session/:sessionId/touch/flick	Flick on the touch screen using finger motion events.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/location	Get the current geo location.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/location	Set the current geo location.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/local_storage	Get all keys of the storage.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/local_storage	Set the storage item for the given key.
	DELETE	/session/:sessionId/local_storage	Clear the storage.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/local_storage/key/:key	Get the storage item for the given key.
	DELETE	/session/:sessionId/local_storage/key/:key	Remove the storage item for the given key.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/local_storage/size	Get the number of items in the storage.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/session_storage	Get all keys of the storage.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/session_storage	Set the storage item for the given key.
	DELETE	/session/:sessionId/session_storage	Clear the storage.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/session_storage/key/:key	Get the storage item for the given key.
	DELETE	/session/:sessionId/session_storage/key/:key	Remove the storage item for the given key.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/session_storage/size	Get the number of items in the storage.
	POST	/session/:sessionId/log	Get the log for a given log type.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/log/types	Get available log types.
	GET	/session/:sessionId/application_cache/status	Get the status of the html5 application cache.