At the moment, I use Firefox as browser for my Java Application with Selenium. But Firefox is slow.
Is it possible to use Yandex as browser? Didn't find anything in Google. Does Selenium supports Yandex? For Chrome I need the .exe for using Chrome as browser. Is this possible with Yandex?
From what I recall, there is no WebDriver for the Yandex ("Яндекс") browser. In other words, there is no way to automate this browser through selenium.
Also, there are some performance tips and further links here:
Selenium WebDriver works but SLOW (Java)
Yandex browser can work with Selenium WebDriver using Operadriver.
System.setProperty("webdriver.opera.driver", "C:\\Users\\User\\IdeaProjects\\testselenium\\drivers\\operadriver.exe");
OperaOptions options = new OperaOptions();
options.setBinary("C:\\Users\\User\\AppData\\Local\\Yandex\\YandexBrowser\\Application\\browser.exe");
WebDriver driver = new OperaDriver(options);
driver.get("https://docs.seleniumhq.org");
This might be what you are looking for ( 4 years later :) ):
https://github.com/yandex/YandexDriver
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I use Selenium every 5 years or so and everytime it has changed beyond recognition. I just started a new Selenium project, googled some quickstart guides such as https://www.toolsqa.com/selenium-webdriver/run-selenium-test/ (written in September 2020) and https://www.guru99.com/first-webdriver-script.html (© 2020) and both seem to use WebDriver, e.g., by initiating their examples with WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(); although the latter has a disclaimer saying that from Firefox 35 (I have 82) and up you should use Geckodriver.
I use Selenium for Java 3.141.59 downloaded from https://www.selenium.dev/downloads/ but it only has two references to Geckodriver (at least that is all that is displayed when it enter Ge and autocomplete in my IDE), GeckoDriverInfo and GeckoDriverService (as a comparison, there are nine references to WebDriver).
I have read the information here https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver but it didn't make me any wiser, nor did https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenium_(software)#Selenium_WebDriver (Geckodriver isn't even mentioned on this Wikipedia page).
What is the difference between Webdriver and Geckodriver?
Why, if one download the newest/current version of everything, isn't Geckodriver included if that is the recommended tool since several (?) years?
Why are guides that are written recently use Webdriver if Geckodriver is the way to go?
I think I have done a reasonably amount of research before asking this question but feel free to suggest improvements because I am genuinely confused.
WebDriver is a specification. It defines the way how UI interfaces can be automated. GeckoDriver is the implementation of such specification - it is the WebDriver implementation for Firefox browser.
So basically a WebDriver is a server that exposes REST API to one side and that knows how to control browser on another side.
Here is short explanation of E2E flow (for Firefox and Java):
You download Selenium java library. It provides Java client for interacting with web drivers
You download GeckoDriver
In your Java code you call WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
Selenium library starts GeckoDriver executable in OS native manner
In your Java code you call driver.get("http://my.url")
Selenium library forms REST call to the server that is started with GeckoDriver. It invokes the endpoint according to this section of specification.
GeckoDriver then translates this command to somewhat that Firefox understands so that the browser navigates to required page.
So basically you need 3 things to make everything work:
Selenium Java library that is basically a Java client for WebDriver REST API
GeckoDriver (that implements REST API according to WebDriver specification and translates it to commands which Firefox browse can understand)
Firefox browser
webdriver, is the parent of ChromeDriver ( from chrome ), GeckoDriver ( FireFox ), IEDriver and RemoteDriver. Possibly even more if they are supported. So, the GeckoDriver is used to control a FireFox Browser instance, but it implements the methods mentioned in the WebDriver interface.
GeckoDriver is not included as it is specific to FireFox only, other users may want to use other browsers.
To keep the flexibility of swapping out the implementations for different browsers. :)
i extract some data from webpage,i have use phantomjs but it shows phantomjs console++ error . so please tell me another way to minimize the browser
You can't minimize phantomjs, since it is a headless browser. You can use https://github.com/MachinePublishers/jBrowserDriver jbrowser driver instead of phantomjs.
I have lots of REST APIs to automate. I know that it can be automated using SOAPUI and Groovy/Javascript.
But I am looking for solution to automate APIs using Selenium webdriver and JAVA. I have already searched for similar solution but unable to find.
You can use Selenium webdriver only for browser automation. Webdriver is only for driving the browser like launch, close, maximize, minimize, screenshot the browser etc...during this automation if you need to test API you can send resquest to the required API from any one of the programming language like java, c#, javascript,etc... and you have to receive the response from the API. You have to test you get the expected response for the given resquest. Selenium webdriver is nothing to do with API testing.
I am running test in java selenium test using firefox/chrome driver
I want to run the test in background.
In ruby, i use this gem
https://rubygems.org/gems/headless
How to do in java?
There is a new Firefox headless mode https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Headless_mode
There is an example of how to use it in Node.js
One would think that would translate over to Java quite well. I'm going to give it a shot.
Other option is using the HtmlUnitDriver which based on HtmlUnit project which "GUI less browser".
//create webdriver
WebDriver driver = new HtmlUnitDriver();
Is there a simple way i can convert my existing selenium RC scripts into the Webdriver format?
There's no way now to "convert" tests, but they can be tweaked to work with WebDriver using its Selenium Emulation.
You should keep in mind that not all Selenium methods are implemented in WebDriverBackedSelenium. However in future releases of WebDriver the support should expand and at some point (probably when Selenium 2 will reach the Beta status) the Selenium and WebDriver will be merged so the transition will be easier