How do I use the HtmlUnit driver with Selenium through the Python bindings?

Question

I\'m using WebDriver through the Python bindings located on Google\'s site. According to the documentation here, it supports four browsers: Chrome, IE, Firefox, and HtmlUnit.

Answer 1

I found the answer at https://stackoverflow.com/a/5518175/125170

As of the 2.0b3 release of the python client you can create an HTMLUnit webdriver via a remote connection like so:

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Remote(
  desired_capabilities=webdriver.DesiredCapabilities.HTMLUNIT)
driver.get('http://www.google.com')

You can also use the HTMLUNITWITHJS capability item for a browser with Javascript support.

Note that you need to run the Selenium Java server for this to work, since HTMLUnit is implemented on the Java side.