selenium-extend

selenium-extend is an npm module that makes async selenium-webdriver code a lot more sane. It's most valuable when used in conjunction with the selenium chromedriver and makes working with chrome extensions in the context of the chromedriver much easier.

selenium-extend does not overwrite existing driver functionality. selenium-extend adds an object named extend with various methods that wrap selenium-webdriver functions into functions that make sense in the context of navigating a browser.

Installation

npm install --save selenium-extend

Initialization

Creating a new driver with extend methods:

var extend = require('selenium-extend');
 
// constructing raw chrome
var driverPath = "path/to/chromedriver";
var driver = extend.createChrome(driverPath); //returns a Chrome WebDriver
 
// constructing chrome with an extension
var extensionPath = "path/to/chrome/extension/folder"; //unpacked chrome extension
var driverPath = "path/to/chromedriver";
var driver = extend.createChromeWithExtension(extensionPath, driverPath);

Adding extend methods to an existing driver:

var extend = require('selenium-extend');
 
extend.addExtend(driver);

You can also set the maximum wait time for async events:

extend.setWaitTime(10000); // sets maximum wait time to 10000ms
                           // default WAITTIME is 10000ms

API

Enable incognito for chrome extensions/selenium web driver:

driver.extend.enableIncognito();  // enables for both selenium and extension
 
driver.extend.enableIncognito(n); // enables for up to n extensions, in order
                                  // from first to last, selenium is always
                                  // the first extension

Check is an element is clickable:

var clickable = driver.extend.isClickable(css); // returns boolean true or false
                                                // waits until WAITTIME
                                                // css is a css selector

Click on an element:

driver.extend.click(css); //css is selector

Double click on an element (really useful for selecting all in input):

driver.extend.doubleClick(css);

Check if an element exists:

driver.extend.exists(css);

Get the text value of an element:

driver.extend.getText(css);

Get the value of an element (input):

driver.extend.getValue(css);

Emulate selecting text in DOM with a mouse pointer:

// offset1 and 2 are the character offsets of the text node to highlight text in
driver.extend.selectText(css, offset1, offset2);

Type text into an element:

driver.extend.typeText(css, "text to type in element");

Switch to the next window:

driver.extend.toNextWindow();

Scroll browser to element:

driver.extend.moveToElement(css);

Future

The following are still to be done: --tests --constructors for other browsers --any other types of browser interactions (e.g. hover, scroll, double click, etc)

License

Created by Shri Ganeshram, please attribute in forks. Licensed under the MIT License.