URL blacklisting with BrowserMobProxy in Robot Framework/Selenium?

Question

I\'m using RobotFramework with Selenium library for writing automated test cases for various websites. I\'ve encountered an issue where due to slow loading from third-party URLs

Answer 1

For anyone who might need this, the solution is below:

Start Browser
    [Documentation]    Start browser
    Set Selenium Implicit Wait    10
    ${BMPATH}    Join Path    ${EXECDIR}    browsermob-proxy-2.1.4    bin    browsermob-proxy.bat
    Start Local Server    ${BMPATH}
    ## Create dedicated proxy on BrowserMob Proxy
    &{host}    Create Dictionary    port=7070  
    ${BrowserMob_Proxy}=    Create Proxy    ${host}
    Blacklist    .*\/\/.*google.*    200
    ## Configure Webdriver to use BrowserMob Proxy
    ${options}=    Evaluate    sys.modules['selenium.webdriver'].ChromeOptions()    sys, selenium.webdriver
    Call Method    ${options}    add_argument    --start-maximized
    Call Method    ${options}    add_argument    --proxy-server\=localhost:7070
    Create WebDriver    Chrome    chrome_options=${options}

This will start the chrome browser maximized and route traffic via BMP. The regex in the Blacklist line means it will block all URL containing 'google' and return status 200 (this can be changed at your will).