• selenium-standalone
  • Install & Run
  • Command line interface (CLI)
  • Application Programming Interface (API)
  • Available browsers
  • Tips
    • Examples of combining with other tools
  • Contributing

A node based CLI library for launching Selenium with WebDrivers support.

Supported WebDrivers:

• ChromeDriver
• geckodriver (Firefox)
• IEDriver
• Edge WebDriver
• Chromium Edge WebDriver

As global npm package

npm install selenium-standalone -g
selenium-standalone install && selenium-standalone start

As a npm package

npm install selenium-standalone --save-dev
npx selenium-standalone install && npx selenium-standalone start

As a Docker service

docker run -it -p 4444:4444 vvoyer/selenium-standalone

See CLI docs

See API docs

By default, Google Chrome, Firefox and Microsoft Edge are available when installed on the host system.

Starting from v6.22 chrome, edgechromium, and geckodriver support latest as version.

• Start Selenium whenever your (ubuntu) machine starts!
• Ensure you have the minimum required Java version
• Logging
• Error: unable to get local issuer certificate
• Running headlessly with xvfb

• WebdriverIO + Jasmine in CircleCI
• WebdriverIO + Cucumber in GitLab

See Contributing