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Tiago Bértolo
Tiago Bértolo

Reputation: 4363

How do I allow Chrome to use my microphone programmatically?

I am currently trying to run some tests made with webdriverjs and chromedriver but they need microphone permissions.

This is the popup that shows up:

popup image

I have tried:

    chromedriver.start(['--disable-popup-blocking']);
    driver = new Webdriver.Builder()
    .withCapabilities(Webdriver.Capabilities.chrome())
    .build();

but it didn't work.

I also tried

    driver.wait(Until.alertIsPresent(), config.TIMEOUT, 'Alert did not show up');
    driver.switchTo().alert().accept();

it did not work either! I guess that this is not an ordinary alert.

Useful links:

Chrome startup arguments list

Chrome options for java and ruby

Chromedriver github

How do I give them permissions programmatically?

Is there any flag or some other way around this?

Upvotes: 19

Views: 18540

Answers (6)

syed usama
syed usama

Reputation: 1

If you want to use the microphone,

chrome_options = Options()

chrome_options.add_experimental_option('prefs',{'profile.default_content_setting_values.media_stream_mic':1})


driver = webdriver.Chrome(path,chrome_options=chrome_options)

Upvotes: 0

Edwin Paz ss. -
Edwin Paz ss. -

Reputation: 315

Similarly, for use in Splinter

    from splinter import Browser
    from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options 
    chrome_options = Options() 
    chrome_options.add_argument("--use-fake-ui-for-media-stream") 
    Browser('chrome', ** {'executable_path':'chromedriver'},options=chrome_options)

Upvotes: 0

M3RS
M3RS

Reputation: 7550

For those using Python, this worked for me:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--use-fake-ui-for-media-stream")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options)

Upvotes: 5

Nick
Nick

Reputation: 166

A little late but pasting how to do this here for others looking for the same. 

const webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver'), By = webdriver.By, until = webdriver.until,Builder= webdriver.Builder;

var chrome = require('selenium-webdriver/chrome');

var chromeOptions = new chrome.Options()
.addArguments('allow-file-access-from-files')
.addArguments('use-fake-device-for-media-stream')
.addArguments('use-fake-ui-for-media-stream');

var driver = new webdriver.Builder()
.forBrowser('chrome')
.setChromeOptions(chromeOptions);

driver = driver.build();

Upvotes: 14

user1110502
user1110502

Reputation: 100

You can whitelist a url for audio-capture by providing chromedriver with the hardware.audio_capture_allowed_urls preference.

...
chrome_options = Options()
prefs = {"hardware.audio_capture_allowed_urls" : ["example.org"]}
chrome_options.add_experimental_option("prefs",prefs)
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options)

Upvotes: 3

YellowBird
YellowBird

Reputation: 633

A fresh profile is loaded each time you run selenium, hence changes you make to the preferences and website permissions are not preserved between sessions. To amend this we need to tell selenium which profile to load.

Step 1. Find your Chrome preferences file: www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Google_Chrome#Configuration

Step 2. Copy the folder Default somewhere. I will assume it is copied to /some/path/allow-mic/Default.

Alternative Step 3 (this is easier): Before copying Default visit localhost:1337 with Chrome and set mic to always allow.

Step 3. Edit allow-mic/Default/Preferences, find the tags "profile", "content_settings" and "exceptions" within each other and add

"media_stream_mic":{"http://localhost:1337,*":
                                          {"last_used":1470931206,
                                           "setting":1} },

to "exceptions". You should end up with something like:

...
"profile":{
     ...
     "content_settings": {
         ...
         "exceptions": {
             ...
             "media_stream_mic":{"http://localhost:1337,*":
                                      {"last_used":1470931206,
                                       "setting":1} },
             ...
         },
    },
},
...

Step 4: Configure selenium to use the edited preferences:

var chromedriver = require('chromedriver');
var Webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver');
var chrome = require('selenium-webdriver/chrome');

var opts = new chrome.Options();                   
opts.addArguments("user-data-dir=/some/path/allow-camera");

var driver = new chrome.Driver(opts);

You can check that the correct set of preferences (Profile path) are in use by opening chrome://version/.

Upvotes: 7

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