How can I control a browser ( ala Selenium ) with node.js? - node.js

Question

I've heard of soda, but it seems like it requires you to signup and there's a limit on the # of minutes ( free acct / 200 minutes ).
Does anyone know if there's some alternative way to control a browser, or more specifically invoke JS on a web page?

Answer 1

https://github.com/LearnBoost/soda/raw/master/examples/google.js
/**
* Module dependencies.
*/
var soda = require('../')
, assert = require('assert');
var browser = soda.createClient({
host: 'localhost'
, port: 4444
, url: 'http://www.google.com'
, browser: 'firefox'
});
browser.on('command', function(cmd, args){
console.log(' \x1b[33m%s\x1b[0m: %s', cmd, args.join(', '));
});
browser
.chain
.session()
.open('/')
.type('q', 'Hello World')
.clickAndWait('btnG')
.getTitle(function(title){
assert.ok(~title.indexOf('Hello World'), 'Title did not include the query');
})
.clickAndWait('link=Advanced search')
.waitForPageToLoad(2000)
.assertText('css=#gen-query', 'Hello World')
.assertAttribute('as_q#value', 'Hello World')
.testComplete()
.end(function(err){
if (err) throw err;
console.log('done');
});

Answer 2

Zombie.js might work for you. It is headless and seems really cool.

Answer 3

There are actually now Selenium bindings for JavaScript that work with Node.js.
Here are some basic steps to get started:
1 Install Node.js, you can find the download here.
Make sure you
have the latest Chrome driver and put it in your path.
Use npm install selenium-webdriver to get the module added to your project.
Write a test, for example:
var webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver');
var driver = new webdriver.Builder().
withCapabilities(webdriver.Capabilities.chrome()).
build();
driver.get('http://www.google.com');
driver.findElement(webdriver.By.name('q')).sendKeys('simple programmer');
driver.findElement(webdriver.By.name('btnG')).click();
driver.quit();</code>
I cover how to do this with some screenshots and how to use Mocha as a test driver in my blog post here.

Answer 4

Here's a pure node.js wrapper around the java API for selenium's webdriver:
https://npmjs.org/package/webdriver-sync
Here's an example:
var webdriverModule = require("webdriver-sync");
var driver = new webdriverModule.ChromeDriver;
var By = webdriverModule.By;
var element = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));
element.sendKeys("Cheese!");
element.submit();
element = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));
assert.equal(element.getAttribute('value'), "Cheese!");
Save that in a .js file and run it with node.
The module is a pure wrapper, so things like sleep or synchronous calls are entirely possible. Here's the current interface of the module:
module.exports={
ChromeDriver:ChromeDriver,
FirefoxDriver:FirefoxDriver,
HtmlUnitDriver:HtmlUnitDriver,
By:new By(),
ExpectedConditions:new ExpectedConditions(),
WebDriverWait:WebDriverWait,
Credentials:UserAndPassword,
Cookie:Cookie,
TimeUnits:TimeUnits,
/**
* #param {number} amount in mills to sleep for.
*/
sleep:function(amount){
java.callStaticMethodSync(
"java.lang.Thread",
"sleep",
new Long(amount)
);
}
};
You can see an integration test that tests the full capabilities here:
https://github.com/jsdevel/webdriver-sync/blob/master/test/integrations/SmokeIT.js

Answer 5

wd is "A node.js javascript client for webdriver/selenium 2"