Network throttling with chrome and selenium

Question

Google Chrome 38 introduced the new \"Device Mode & Mobile Emulation\" functionality in devtools. In addition to choosing a device for emulation, it is also possible to

Answer 1

The API to control network emulation were added to ChromeDriver. And should be available for quite a while now. According to comment in the linked issue you should use version at least 2.26 because of some bugfix.

According to Selenium changelog bindings are available for these languages:

• JavaScript as of version 3.4.0 (commit)
• Python as of version 3.5.0 (commit)
• Ruby as of version 3.11.0 (commit)
• C# as of version 4 (commit)

If you need these binding in other languages you should probably open issue/contribute implementation similar to one of the above.

Example usage from Python is below:

driver.set_network_conditions(
    offline=False,
    latency=5,  # additional latency (ms)
    download_throughput=500 * 1024,  # maximal throughput
    upload_throughput=500 * 1024)  # maximal throughput