Selenium Mobile JSON Wire Protocol Specification

[maxharris]

Meh, headless Chrome killed any need for me to ever touch this Selenium thing again. It is awesome to not have to install Java to get work done...

[hugs]

You don't have to install Java to use Selenium. (Source: I started the Selenium project)

[enitihas]

Headless chrome and selenium are two orthogonal things I think. Selenium offers an API to control browsers. It can be chrome, headless chrome, remote chrome, firfox or any browser supporting the web driver protocol. Headless chrome is just an efficient way to run chrome for tests. I think you might have meant Puppeteer.

[dcherman]

So do you not have automated tests that run cross browser? If so, what's your method for doing so?

[domakidis]

Chrome doesn't support extensions in headless mode though, unlike Firefox that does.

A Seleniun installation with the Google Chrome Driver is still required for anyone who would want that.

[colanderman]

For those as confused by the title as I was, apparently this is a wire protocol for something called "Selenium" which happens to use JSON. "Selenium Mobile REST API" would be much more descriptive without context.

[kodablah]

Also a repo that that changed in over a year. I am curious if there is anything new of note.

[codedokode]

I was confused too and didn't understand why mobile devices need another type of JSON.

[sctb]

Thank you! We've added “Selenium”.