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grunt-webdriver-manager

A grunt and cli package to manage selenium and webdriver download

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.0

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-webdriver-manager');

Web Driver Manager task

Run this task with the grunt webdrivermanager command.

Settings

There are a number of options available.

out_dir

Type: String Default: './selenium'

Path of file download storage.

Example:

webdrivermanager: {
    out_dir: './selenium',
    capabilities: {
        browserName: 'chrome'
    },
    seleniumArgs: [],
    seleniumPort: 4444,
    ignore_ssl: false,
    proxy: false,
    method: 'GET',
    webdriverVersions: {
        selenium: '2.44.0',
        chromedriver: '2.12',
        iedriver: '2.44.0'
    }
}

Roadmap

Improve documentation
Refactor code to externalize webdriver-manager to standalone package
Improve package corrumption detection based on size
Test on Windows

Release History

v1.0.0 deploy on tags and download chrome driver x64 architecture
v0.0.9 remove console.log
v0.0.8 support background with & https://www.maketecheasier.com/run-bash-commands-background-linux/
v0.0.7 -d (daemon) flag on cli start command
v0.0.6 Allow change webdriver versions with configuration
v0.0.5 Fix issue loading x32 chrome driver on x64 host
v0.0.4 Fix issue on return result of update method
v0.0.3 Fix issue in grunt async context
v0.0.2 Add license MIT
v0.0.1 First release with driver download support and selenoum server start

Task submitted by Loïc Calvy

Usage no npm install needed!