I am learning to use Selenium (v2.20) to get ahead of some of our programmers who will soon be creating some browser tests with it. I'd like to uncover the pitfalls before they get there, and I've stumbled into one.
When I create my ChromeDriver, it always brings up a "Google Chrome EULA" and presents two buttons: "Accept and Run" and "Cancel". As I want this to be an automated test, having a user click a button is out of the question.
I looked at a list of Chromium Command Switches but did not find any that worked, nor any that mentioned EULA. The test works fine if I (at a breakpoint) click "Accept and Run" and then let the code continue.
The code, up to the line that causes the problem, is below:
using (var driverService = ChromeDriverService.CreateDefaultService(#"C:\Apps\ChromeDriver\"))
{
driverService.Start();
// This line pops up the EULA
IWebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(#"C:\Apps\ChromeDriver\");
// rest of test...
}
Has anyone else run into this issue? If so, how did you solve it?
UPDATE 4/4/12
I just ran the same code on my computer at work and I succeed without triggering the EULA (consistent with Slanec's experience). This leads me to believe the cause is environmental. I'm looking into the differences between the two systems (both Win7 x64) to determine the cause. I'll update once I have more information.
Thanks much,
-Seth
In case you still have this problem, the error occurs because you are opening up a brand new instance of the chrome browser every time you run the test, thereby triggering the EULA. If you copy the default chrome profile into a custom location of your choice, and then add the "--user-data-dir=yourcustomlocation" flag to ChromeOptions, you can bypass the EULA and open up the existing profile instead.
ChromeOptions crOptions = new ChromeOptions();
crOptions.AddArgument(#"--user-data-dir=C:\custom location");
return new ChromDriver(crOptions);
Steps:
Copy your chromedriver.exe into Windows/System32
Now Go to your chrome folder, for me it is: C:\Users\"%USERNAME%"\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\
There is a master_preferences file.
Open it and false EULA option.
It works for me, hope will work for you all also.
Related
This is not really a new question, nor an answer to the original question, but is rather a request for clarrity since the answer posted to the original question is incomplete, but any request for clarrity gets deleted...
Original post is here... Unable to hide "Chrome is being controlled by automated software" infobar within Chrome v76
So, while I understand your original answer, we do not use managed instances of Chrome, and we all run on Windows 10 Home Edition... so, this setting your answer is not an option for us. On the other hand, all of our regression tests are failing now because this stupid banner is in the way of everything.
Is there a way a non-IT-Managed user running Windows 10 Home Edition can suppress this banner?
If not, how does Google expect us to continue using Chrome for testing? Any suggestions greatly appreciated... Also, I am using Python, so if you supply code example, please keep that in mind... this is what I am currently doing, and it was working before last week, but not working now...
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--start-maximized')
options.add_argument("--disable-infobars")
options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")
options.add_argument("--disable-automation")
options.add_argument("--log-level=3")
# options.add_argument('headless')
options.add_argument('window-size=1920x1012')
options.add_experimental_option("prefs", {"download.prompt_for_download": False})
options.add_experimental_option("prefs", {"plugins.plugins_list": [{"enabled": False, "name": "Chrome PDF Viewer"}]})
options.add_experimental_option("prefs", {"download.default_directory": os.path.abspath(context.BaseResultsDir + '/Downloads/')})
options.add_experimental_option("prefs", {"download.extensions_to_open": "applications/pdf"})
context.driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)
After much Googling, this is finally what worked for me... Updated Selenium, switched to Canary release of ChromeDriver, and then made these adjustments to my test code, which is Python...
# options.add_argument("--disable-infobars") <<< TOOK THIS OUT
# options.add_argument("--disable-automation") <<< TOOK THIS OUT
options.add_experimental_option("excludeSwitches", ["enable-automation"]) <<< PUT THIS IN (Finding this one was the real killer)
options.add_experimental_option("useAutomationExtension", False) <<< PUT THIS IN
Your solution and mine are very similar. Thank you for posting.
David
Probably reason behind settings for infobar was working still last week not in this week, are may be you have updated/autoupdated chromedriver or chromebrowser. However your setting to disable infobar are not working because as per this commit on - Jan 10 2018, --disable-infobars option has been removed from chrome options
Solutions - Keeping this line does nothing options.add_argument("--disable-infobars") you can remove it.
options.add_argument("--disable-automation")
This line makes real confusion here towards the solution because there are 2 different ways to do it (By default this switch is enabled we have to remove it to disable the infobar). This line disables the password saving UI for more details read this nice discussion
Use this line do disable the infobar by excluding enable automation switch -
options.add_experimental_option("excludeSwitches" , ["enable-automation"])
It solves the problem to some extent, when I tried with this intermittently developer code plugin popup comes up and ask to enable/disable it. and it wont go away by options.add_argument("--disable-extensions") this. If you facing same issue use another switch to disable it as below-
options.add_experimental_option("excludeSwitches" , ["enable-automation","load-extension"])
This solves the problem from root(load-extension switch supports Chromedriver v2.33 and later). However there is one more way to disable the developer code plugin popup which you can do by adding --disable-plugins into shortcut of chrome
If these solutions doesn't work for you then chromium command line switches here can help you to customize the chrome behavior
Additionaly ChromeDriver(Capabilities capabilities) is deprecated and can be used as
capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.CHROME.copy()
capabilities.update(options.to_capabilities())
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chromedriver, desired_capabilities=capabilities)
solution to disable infobar in Java
options.setExperimentalOption("excludeSwitches", Arrays.asList("enable-automation" , "load-extension"));
will disable infobar with developer code plugin
This worked for me:
options.add_option('excludeSwitches', ['enable-automation'])
Method add_experimental_option, I suppose, is removed from the latest versions.
I'm using a PHP script which expects user input from a command like fgets(STDIN). The problem is it no longer works in the newest version of PHPStorm (10).
The same works when I run it directly (without debugger enabled) and anything I enter in the console is sent to the script (on direct run).
But during a debug session, when I try to input text at the script's prompt, it does not go to the script. My best guess is that the new REPL feature is overriding user input in console during debugging. I say this because pressing the UP/DOWN arrows opens up a popup with all PHP function names.
It used to work correctly with last version.
How can I send user input to my PHP script with this new version? Am I missing something here?
I'm not sure if this is the same thing, but I was running into this same problem, and I was able to get it working by deselecting the "Use Console Input" checkbox in the PHPStorm Console.
John's answer is perfect.
I want to mention that the Use Console Input is a tiny icon in sidebar of the debug console. I provide you by this image
I decided to try Windows 10, but having problem to make terminal works inside WebStorm/PhpStorm.
When I open terminal, sometimes it's completely black, sometimes it loads the project folder but I cannot type there. There is a way to run it in the external window, but I just got accustomed to work with console like internal window inside WebStorm/PhpStorm...
I tried cmd, Power Shell - same results.
Any ideas?
Workaround: Terminal works fine in Windows 10 if you use legacy console.
To do so, open a command prompt window, right click on the title, then select Properties. At the bottom, check "Use legacy console". Confirm the dialog window and go back to WebStorm to launch a new terminal. It should work.
In any case, this is the ticket to watch after:
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-143300 -- star/vote/comment to get notified on progress.
UPDATE:
This issue has now been resolved -- the fix will arrive in next major version -- PhpStorm v10/WebStorm v11 (or whatever that version will be as long as it's based on 142.xx branch or newer).
UPDATE:
For those who have problems with right clicking and finding "Properties" menu entry:
Just for the record: I have confirmation from JetBrains that it will be fixed (i.e. work with non-legacy mode) in WebStorm 11 which is scheduled for the beginning of November. In the EAP version it should already work.
When I try to run my Windows Store app, it won't, and shows me this:
..."does not support the contract specified"? What contract? I'm not implementing any contract; I assume it means the Settings contract or some such, but I'm not doing any of those yet.
I went to the Help page suggested, and it says, in part, "To diagnose these errors
There are no sure ways to fix these errors. Use these techniques to diagnose the problem."
The first suggestion is:
Open Event Viewer (on the Windows Start menu, search for Event Viewer.) In Event Viewer, navigate in the tree to the Application and Services Log\Microsoft\Windows\Apps folder.
Filter the view to event Ids: 5900-6000
Examine the log and see what occurred.
Windows 8.1 only brings up web pages when I search for "Event Viewer"
Actually, I did write a utility to catch event logs, and I ran that. I found these:
***Type: Error
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Immersive-Shell
Time Generated: 11/27/2014 15:10:39
Message: Activation of app App.adaf78a74.a8c80.a4ff5.a99ca.a97636d548196_8wekyb3d8bbwe!Designer.App failed with error: -2144927148 See the Microsoft-Windows-TWinUI/Operational log for additional information.
Type: Error
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Immersive-Shell
Time Generated: 11/27/2014 15:20:08
Message: Activation of app axXAndSpace.Visits_qtyjefqf75sa6!App failed with error: -2144927148 See the Microsoft-Windows-TWinUI/Operational log for additional information.***
But where is "Microsoft-Windows-TWinUI/Operational log"?
The second suggestion on the Help page was:
Use the native debugger
Configure the project to run under a native debugger.
In Visual Studio, set the Debugger Type to Native Only on the Debug (Debugging in C++ and JavaScript) page of the property pages of the start-up project.
Look at the exceptions being thrown by looking at the output window. You might want to configure the debugger to stop when these exceptions are thrown.
I did that, but it gave me no more information than previously - nothing at all displays in the Output pane.
What could be the cause of this?
UPDATE
Just to update the progress:
Based on Iris Classon's suggestions, I went to Control Panel to see if my app was installed so that I could uninstall it, but it's not in that list.
If I search for the app by typing its name, it tries to start up - its splash screen displays, but goes no further than that.
I went to Program Files\WindowsApps, and when selecting it got, "You don't currently have persimmons to access this folder, click continue to continually get access"
That leads me to "You have been denied permission to access this folder; to gain access to this folder, you will need to use the security tab"
Click the "security tab" link takes me to that tab, and a "For special permissions or advanced settings, click Advanced"
I do so.
That takes me to a Permissions tab, which says, "You must have Read permissions to view the properties of this object; Click continue to attempt the operation with administrative permissions"
I then selected (one at a time, as that is all it allows):
Trusted Installer : Full control
System: Read, Write, and Execute
System: Full Control
Administrators: Read & Execute
But so far, none of that seems to do anything good.
UPDATE 2
This problem has just "gone away" today; I don't think it was anything I did. I added a UserControl, tried running the app again, and now it runs - I don't see that error message. However, I do see a seemingly unrelated one. (at least I got further).
I just had this problem on a fresh install of Windows 8.1 on my laptop. I'm not sure which one of these steps solved it, but until somebody can give you a more exact answer here is something to try as I am sure you are keen on coding.
Only Store Apps run from VS gives that error, other Store apps work fine.
I first of all changed permissions on my WindowsApps folder under Program Files and made sure that I had full access to the folder and sub folders. Restarted the laptop, still no luck.
Then I set up an admin guest account (just something I tend to do for when I need to record tutorials- so not related to trying to solve the error). Out of curiosity I tried to create and run the same Windows Store App and got an error that another user had installed the app. Strange, how was it installed if it gave me the error that it couldn't activate the app on the main account?
I logged back in as the main user and uninstalled the application (which was showing up as installed), and I can now run any Store App from VS without problems.
Not sure this is an answer since I'm not sure what made it work, but give it a try and hopefully somebody else can clear this us up. I'll investigate further, but I'm on a train right now with poor WiFi connection :)
Best of luck!
I had the same scenario, here are the steps I did to resolve:
I tried to create packages, chose not to associate with the store.
It said that the certificate is expired, I created a new test certificate.
I created the test packages successfully.
Tried to run the project from VS and it finally ran.
I believe all of this had to do with the certificate. very frustrating and time wasting issue.
I also had the same problem and following steps fixed it. Hope it will help some one else.
Open the appxmanifest file
Go to "Packaging" tab
Select "Choose Certificate" and select "Pick from certificate store" and select your cetificate and click on ok
Does anyone know of a way to save the console.log output in Chrome to a file? Or how to copy the text out of the console?
Say you are running a few hours of functional tests and you've got thousands of lines of console.log output in Chrome. How do you save it or export it?
Good news
Chrome dev tools now allows you to save the console output to a file natively
Open the console
Right-click
Select "save as.."
Chrome Developer instructions here.
I needed to do the same thing and this is the solution I found:
Enable logging from the command line using the flags:
--enable-logging --v=1
This logs everything Chrome does internally, but it also logs all the console.log() messages as well. The log file is called chrome_debug.log and is located in the User Data Directory which can be overridden by supplying --user-data-dir=PATH (more info here).
Filter the log file you get for lines with CONSOLE(\d+).
Note that console logs do not appear with --incognito.
I have found a great and easy way for this.
In the console - right click on the console logged object
Click on 'Store as global variable'
See the name of the new variable - e.g. it is variableName1
Type in the console: JSON.stringify(variableName1)
Copy the variable string content: e.g. {"a":1,"b":2,"c":3}
Go to some JSON online editor:
e.g. https://jsoneditoronline.org/
There is an open-source javascript plugin that does just that, but for any browser - debugout.js
Debugout.js records and save console.logs so your application can access them. Full disclosure, I wrote it. It formats different types appropriately, can handle nested objects and arrays, and can optionally put a timestamp next to each log. You can also toggle live-logging in one place, and without having to remove all your logging statements.
For better log file (without the Chrome-debug nonsense) use:
--enable-logging --log-level=0
instead of
--v=1 which is just too much info.
It will still provide the errors and warnings like you would typically see in the Chrome console.
update May 18, 2020: Actually, I think this is no longer true. I couldn't find the console messages within whatever this logging level is.
This may or may not be helpful but on Windows you can read the console log using Event Tracing for Windows
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms751538.aspx
Our integration tests are run in .NET so I use this method to add the console log to our test output. I've made a sample console project to demonstrate here: https://github.com/jkells/chrome-trace
--enable-logging --v=1 doesn't seem to work on the latest version of Chrome.
For Google Chrome Version 84.0.4147.105 and higher,
just right click and click 'Save as' and 'Save'
then, txt file will be saved
A lot of good answers but why not just use JSON.stringify(your_variable) ? Then take the contents via copy and paste (remove outer quotes). I posted this same answer also at: How to save the output of a console.log(object) to a file?
There is another open-source tool which allows you to save all console.log output in a file on your server - JS LogFlush (plug!).
JS LogFlush is an integrated JavaScript logging solution which include:
cross-browser UI-less replacement of console.log - on client side.
log storage system - on server side.
Demo
If you're running an Apache server on your localhost (don't do this on a production server), you can also post the results to a script instead of writing it to console.
So instead of console.log, you can write:
JSONP('http://localhost/save.php', {fn: 'filename.txt', data: json});
Then save.php can do this
<?php
$fn = $_REQUEST['fn'];
$data = $_REQUEST['data'];
file_put_contents("path/$fn", $data);
Right-click directly on the logged value you want to copy
In the right-click menu, select "Store as global variable"
You'll see the value saved as something like "temp1" on the next line in the console
In the console, type copy(temp1) and hit return (replace temp1 with the variable name from the previous step). Now the logged value is copied to your clipboard.
Paste the values to wherever you want
This is especially good as an approach if you don't want to mess with changing flags/settings in Chrome and don't want to deal with JSON stringifying and parsing etc.
Update: I just found this explanation of what I suggested with images that's easier to follow https://scottwhittaker.net/chrome-devtools/2016/02/29/chrome-devtools-copy-object.html
These days it's very easy - right click any item displayed in the console log and select save as and save the whole log output to a file on your computer.
On Linux (at least) you can set CHROME_LOG_FILE in the environment to have chrome write a log of the Console activity to the named file each time it runs. The log is overwritten every time chrome starts. This way, if you have an automated session that runs chrome, you don't have a to change the way chrome is started, and the log is there after the session ends.
export CHROME_LOG_FILE=chrome.log
the other solutions in this thread weren't working on my mac. Here's a logger that saves a string representation intermittently using ajax. use it with console.save instead of console.log
var logFileString="";
var maxLogLength=1024*128;
console.save=function(){
var logArgs={};
for(var i=0; i<arguments.length; i++) logArgs['arg'+i]=arguments[i];
console.log(logArgs);
// keep a string representation of every log
logFileString+=JSON.stringify(logArgs,null,2)+'\n';
// save the string representation when it gets big
if(logFileString.length>maxLogLength){
// send a copy in case race conditions change it mid-save
saveLog(logFileString);
logFileString="";
}
};
depending on what you need, you can save that string or just console.log it and copy and paste. here's an ajax for you in case you want to save it:
function saveLog(data){
// do some ajax stuff with data.
var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function(){
if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {}
}
xhttp.open("POST", 'saveLog.php', true);
xhttp.send(data);
}
the saveLog.php should append the data to a log file somewhere. I didn't need that part so I'm not including it here. :)
https://www.google.com/search?q=php+append+to+log
This answer might seem specifically related, but specifically for Network Log, you can visit the following link.
The reason I've post this answer is because in my case, the console.log printed a long truncated text so I couldn't get the value from the console. I solved by getting the api response I was printing directly from the network log.
chrome://net-export/
There you may see a similar windows to this, just press the Start Logging to Disk button and that's it:
Create a batch file using below command and save it as ChromeDebug.bat in your desktop.
start chrome --enable-logging --v=1
Close all other Chrome tabs and windows.
Double click ChromeDebug.bat file which will open Chrome and a command prompt with Chrome icon in taskbar.
All the web application logs will be stored in below path.
Run the below path in Run command to open chrome log file
%LocalAppData%\Google\Chrome\User Data\chrome_debug.log