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jotrocken
jotrocken

Reputation: 2333

Robotframework: How to use Chromium in Selenium Library with Open Browser?

I want to automate tests for a website using Robotframework and Selenium. My test works well with Firefox. However, I would like to use Chromium instead. According to the documentation for "Open Browser", it should work for Chrome. But on my Ubuntu machine I can't use that browser out of the box.

Here is a minimal example:

*** Settings ***
Library  SeleniumLibrary

*** Test Cases ***
Open Browser And Check Title
    Open Browser  about:blank  chromium
    Title Should Be  ${EMPTY}

It fails with the following error:

ValueError: chromium is not a supported browser.

Is there a way to set up chromium for use with Selenium in Robotframework?

EDIT: This was originally asked for Selenium2Library. When moving to version 3, they dropped the version number from the name. The question has been updated accordingly.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 9520

Answers (2)

Bryan Oakley
Bryan Oakley

Reputation: 385910

The problem is that "chromium" isn't a name that the selenium library knows about. You can't use just any name. Use "chrome" rather than "chromium", and make sure that the ChromeDriver is installed in some folder in your path -- it doesn't get installed by default.

Upvotes: 5

ombre42
ombre42

Reputation: 2384

Try this:

${options}=    Evaluate    sys.modules['selenium.webdriver'].ChromeOptions()    sys
${options.binary_location}    Set Variable    /var/blah/chromium
Create Webdriver    Chrome    my_alias    chrome_options=${options}
Go To    http://www.robotframework.org/

Upvotes: 3

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