How to handle basic authentication with protractor?

Question

I\'m trying protractor to write a few tests in a non angular application. I have to login in a page trough basic authentication in google chrome, but i have no idea how.

Answer 1

As of version 59 Chrome no longer supports URLs with embedded credentials.

To work around this I wrote the authenticator-browser-extension Node module, which might be useful if you're using Protractor, WebDriver.io or similar test runners.

To use the module install it from npm:

npm install --save-dev authenticator-browser-extension

And import in the protractor.conf.js:

const { Authenticator } = require('authenticator-browser-extension');

exports.config = {
    capabilities: {
        browserName: 'chrome',

        chromeOptions: {
            extensions: [
                Authenticator.for('username', 'password').asBase64()
            ]
        }
    },
}

Pro tip: remember not to commit your credentials with your code, consider using env variables instead.

Hope this helps!

Jan