Run Selenium WebDriver Script on Brave Browser

1. Introduction

Brave is a free and open source web browser, based on Chromium Web Browser. In this article, we will learn how we can run our selenium script on brave browser.

To ease our burden, we will use WebDriverManager in our script to manage Webdriver connection between Selenium Script and Brave Browser.

2. Steps to run Selenium Test on Brave Browser

1. Install any IDEs(IntelliJ, Eclipse, Visual Code)
2. Install any Java version and set it’s path in environment variable
3. Create a maven project
4. Create a pom.xml file in your project(if not existed by default)
5. Add 2 dependencies in your pom.xml — selenium dependency and WebDriverManager dependency

<dependencies>
    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.seleniumhq.selenium/selenium-java -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
        <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
        <version>3.141.59</version>
    </dependency>

    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/io.github.bonigarcia/webdrivermanager -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.github.bonigarcia</groupId>
        <artifactId>webdrivermanager</artifactId>
        <version>5.0.3</version>
    </dependency>
    
</dependencies>

6. Now after adding all the required dependencies, we will create a java file to run our selenium tests on Brave browser. For this, we need to create a link between our Selenium script and brave browser.

7. We will setup chromeDriver to make a connection between browser and Selenium Script

WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup();

8. Now we will provide an executable path of Brave Browser, else chromedriver will run the tests on Chrome Browser by default. For this, we will use ChromeOptions class, and will use setBinary method to provide Brave browser path.

ChromeOptions chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions().setBinary("/Applications/Brave Browser.app/Contents/MacOS/Brave Browser");

9. Now we will create a webdriver object and provide the chromeoptions we added in previous step.

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(chromeOptions);

10. Now our connectivity is all set. We can now use the webdriver object to run any test.

For reference, you can refer this GitHub code

3. Run our tests in Incognito and Tor Mode

• To run test in incognito mode, use --incognito in chromeoptions

chromeOptions.addArguments("--incognito");

• To run test in tor mode, use --tor in chromeoptions

chromeOptions.addArguments("--tor");

4. Sample Code File

Refer below code to have a better understanding of how this is working

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