@types/selenium-webdriver

What is @types/selenium-webdriver?

The @types/selenium-webdriver package provides TypeScript type definitions for the selenium-webdriver package, which is a browser automation framework. These type definitions allow developers to use Selenium with TypeScript by providing the necessary type annotations for better development experience, such as code completion and type checking.

What are @types/selenium-webdriver's main functionalities?

Browser Control

This feature allows you to control a browser programmatically, including opening pages, filling out forms, and simulating user actions.

import { Builder, By, Key, until } from 'selenium-webdriver';

(async function example() {
  let driver = await new Builder().forBrowser('firefox').build();
  try {
    await driver.get('http://www.google.com/ncr');
    await driver.findElement(By.name('q')).sendKeys('webdriver', Key.RETURN);
    await driver.wait(until.titleIs('webdriver - Google Search'), 1000);
  } finally {
    await driver.quit();
  }
})();

Element Interaction

This feature allows interaction with HTML elements on a web page, such as clicking buttons, entering text, and reading element attributes.

import { Builder, By } from 'selenium-webdriver';

(async function example() {
  let driver = await new Builder().forBrowser('firefox').build();
  try {
    await driver.get('http://www.example.com');
    let element = await driver.findElement(By.id('some-id'));
    await element.click();
  } finally {
    await driver.quit();
  }
})();

Wait Conditions

This feature provides the ability to wait for certain conditions to be met before proceeding with further actions, such as waiting for an element to be present or visible.

import { Builder, By, until } from 'selenium-webdriver';

(async function example() {
  let driver = await new Builder().forBrowser('firefox').build();
  try {
    await driver.get('http://www.example.com');
    await driver.wait(until.elementLocated(By.id('some-id')), 10000);
  } finally {
    await driver.quit();
  }
})();

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README

Installation

npm install --save @types/selenium-webdriver

Summary

This package contains type definitions for Selenium WebDriverJS (https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium).

Details

Files were exported from https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/tree/master/types/selenium-webdriver.

Additional Details

• Last updated: Fri, 04 Nov 2022 15:33:20 GMT
• Dependencies: @types/ws
• Global values: none

Credits

These definitions were written by Bill Armstrong, Yuki Kokubun, Craig Nishina, Simon Gellis, Ben Dixon, Ziyu, Johann Wolf, Aleksey Chemakin, David Burns, Pirasis Leelatanon, and Harmandeep Singh.