selenium-commandline

Wrapper to install and start Selenium via npm

Introduction

This tool is aim to simplify the installation and provision of selenium-server. It only support Selenum 4.

Installation

npm install -g selenium-commandline

Quick Start

Install Selenium Server

selenium-cli install

Download Drivers

You can either download drivers manually, or use the provsion utility. To use the provision utility, a provision configuration file need to be created first.

downloads:
  - url: https://some.storage/path/to/chromedriver
    file: chromedriver

  - url: https://some.storage/path/to/geckodriver
    file: geckodriver

And then you can use the selenium-cli provision config.yaml to download drivers for you.

Note: It doesn't support unzip compressed file automatically.
TODO: Support post download commands.

Start Server

Before you start server, make user dirvers can be found in the global path or current working directoy. Then you can use the following command to run standalone server:

selenium-cli standalone

It use pm2 to manage the process. You can find the service in pm2 with pm2 ps command. If you didn't install pm2 before, you need to run npm install -g pm2 first.

You can also pass the option to selenium server by set them after the --, for example

selenium-cli standalone -- --port 5555