I'm trying to run chrome headless with my robot framework tests suites. I managed to do it independtly with python using selenium as follows:
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--headless')
my_driver = webdriver.Remote(command_executer=my_remote_address, desired_capabilities=options.to_capabilities)
The following code is what I did in robot but didn't work:
${options}= Evaluate sys.modules['selenium.webdriver'].ChromeOptions() sys, selenium.webdriver
${options.add_argument}= Set Variable add_argument=--headless
Create WebDriver Chrome chrome_options=${options}
Open Browser http://www.google.com chrome
To run headless you need to set the arguments and convert them to capabilities so that they can be used when using the Remote Driver
option. This works for both the Open Browser
as well as the Create Webdriver
way of navigating to a URL.
*** Settings ***
Library Selenium2Library
Suite Teardown Close All Browsers
*** Test Cases ***
Headless Chrome - Create Webdriver
${chrome_options} = Evaluate sys.modules['selenium.webdriver'].ChromeOptions() sys, selenium.webdriver
Call Method ${chrome_options} add_argument headless
Call Method ${chrome_options} add_argument disable-gpu
${options}= Call Method ${chrome_options} to_capabilities
Create Webdriver Remote command_executor=http://localhost:4444/wd/hub desired_capabilities=${options}
Go to http://cnn.com
Maximize Browser Window
Capture Page Screenshot
Headless Chrome - Open Browser
${chrome_options} = Evaluate sys.modules['selenium.webdriver'].ChromeOptions() sys, selenium.webdriver
Call Method ${chrome_options} add_argument headless
Call Method ${chrome_options} add_argument disable-gpu
${options}= Call Method ${chrome_options} to_capabilities
Open Browser http://cnn.com browser=chrome remote_url=http://localhost:4444/wd/hub desired_capabilities=${options}
Maximize Browser Window
Capture Page Screenshot