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- appium-chromedriver
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appium-chromedriver
Node.js wrapper around Chromedriver
This module is written using Traceur which is essentially ECMAscript6 along with the proposed await command for es7.
Usage
import Chromedriver from 'appium-chromedriver';
// 'sync'-like await/Promise usage
async function runSession() {
let driver = new Chromedriver();
const desiredCaps = {browserName: 'chrome'};
await driver.start(desiredCaps);
let status = await driver.sendCommand('/status', 'GET');
await driver.stop();
}
// EventEmitter usage
function runSession2() {
let driver = new Chromedriver();
const desiredCaps = {browserName: 'chrome'};
driver.start(desiredCaps);
driver.on(Chromedriver.EVENT_CHANGED, function (msg) {
if (msg.state === Chromedriver.STATE_ONLINE) {
driver.sendCommand('/status', 'GET').then(function (status) {
driver.stop();
});
}
});
driver.on(Chromedriver.EVENT_ERROR, function (err) {
// :-(
});
}States
Here's what the Chromedriver state machine looks like:

Here are the events you can listen for:
Chromedriver.EVENT_ERROR: gives you an error objectChromedriver.EVENT_CHANGED: gives you a state change object, with astateproperty that can be one of:Chromedriver.STATE_STOPPEDChromedriver.STATE_STARTINGChromedriver.STATE_ONLINEChromedriver.STATE_STOPPINGChromedriver.STATE_RESTARTING
Custom Chromedriver version
To use a version of Chromedriver not set in the code, use npm config property chromedriver_version.
npm install appium-chromedriver --chromedriver_version="2.16"Or add the property into your .npmrc file.
chromedriver_version=2.16Custom binaries url
To use a mirror of the ChromeDriver binaries use npm config property chromedriver_cdnurl.
Default is http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com.
npm install appium-chromedriver --chromedriver_cdnurl=http://npm.taobao.org/mirrors/chromedriverOr add the property into your .npmrc file.
chromedriver_cdnurl=http://npm.taobao.org/mirrors/chromedriverAnother option is to use PATH variable CHROMEDRIVER_CDNURL.
CHROMEDRIVER_CDNURL=http://npm.taobao.org/mirrors/chromedriver npm install appium-chromedriverDev
We use Gulp for building/transpiling.
Watch
npm run watchRun Tests
npm test