Using Python Selenium Webdriver to open Electron Application

Question

I've been attempting to bypass using Spectron for End2End testing an electron application by leveraging my experience with Selenium Webdriver on Python. Using a combination of the Chromedriver get started page, and several resources that seem to suggest its possible, this is what I came up with:

from selenium import webdriver
import selenium.webdriver.chrome.service as service
servicer = service.Service('C:\\browserDrivers\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe')
servicer.start()
capabilities = {'chrome.binary': 'C:\\path\\to\\electron.exe'}
remote = webdriver.remote.webdriver.WebDriver(command_executor=servicer.service_url, desired_capabilities = capabilities, browser_profile=None, proxy=None, keep_alive=False

The issue is that instead of opening the electron application, it opens a standard instance of Chrome.

Most of resources I've seen have been several years old so something may have changed to make it no longer possible.

Does anyone know of a way to use Python Selenium WebDriver to test an Electron application?

I think this can help you: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72447964/testing-electron-application-with-selenium-python-robotframework — Haythem, May 31 '22 at 13:06

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 08 '17 at 05:20

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Below works great for me

from selenium import webdriver


options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.binary_location = "/Applications/Electron.app/Contents/MacOS/Electron"

driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)

driver.get("http://www.google.com")


driver.quit()

answered Sep 08 '17 at 05:20

Tarun Lalwani

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Clearly I way over complicated it. Thanks! – Yoni Shurygin Sep 08 '17 at 16:04
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Do you know why this does not work when I try to launch atom or gitkraken (which are electron apps)? – Dec 16 '19 at 18:38

Using Python Selenium Webdriver to open Electron Application

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