How do I use the HTMLUnit driver with Selenium from Python?

Question

How do I tell Selenium to use HTMLUnit?

I\'m running selenium-server-standalone-2.0b1.jar as a Selenium server in the background, and the latest Python bindings inst

Answer 1

I use it like this:

from selenium.remote import connect                                                                                                                          

b = connect('htmlunit')                                                                                                                                      
b.get('http://google.com')                                                                                                                                   

q = b.find_element_by_name('q')                                                                                                                              
q.send_keys('selenium')                                                                                                                                      
q.submit()                                                                                                                                                   

for l in b.find_elements_by_xpath('//h3/a'):                                                                                                                 
    print('%s\n\t%s\n' % (l.get_text(), l.get_attribute('href')))

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

using the selenium 2.20.0.jar server and matching python version, I am able to use HtmlUnitDriver by specifying the browser as *mock

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities

server_url = "http://%s:%s/wd/hub" % (test_host, test_port)
dc = DesiredCapabilities.HTMLUNIT
wd = webdriver.Remote(server_url, dc)
wd.get('http://www.google.com')