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Running RSelenium with Opera

I am trying to use RSelenium with Opera (Version 72). I already downloaded the current version of the opera drivers from https://github.com/operasoftware/operachromiumdriver/releases.

However, I am facing two problems which I did not figure out yet.

What`s the procedure for installing the opera drivers? I ran the .exe, but only some lines in the win console appeared.

What is the right code? My latest try is:

remDr = remoteDriver(remoteServerAddr = "localhost", port = 4444, browserName = "opera",extraCapabilities = list("opera.binary" = "C:[..]/operadriver.exe"))
(I also tried remDr = remoteDriver([...] /launch.exe"))
remDr$open()

In doing this, I got the response:

"Undefined error in httr call. httr output: Failed to connect to localhost port 4444: Connection refused"

Thanks for any suggestions.

Solution

  • [ Download the opera driver and Opera ]

    The download process also can be automated (however not posting it here)

    Then

    se <- wdman::selenium(
  check = FALSE,
  jvmargs = list(
    opera =
      paste0(
        "-Dwebdriver.opera.driver=",
        normalizePath(
          "<give correct path>/operadriver.exe"
        )
      )
  ))

rd <- RSelenium::remoteDriver(browserName = "opera", port = 4567L)
rd$open()