Selenium WebDriverJS, cannot build webdriver for Chrome

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I am having some trouble setting up Selenium WebDriverJS. My goal is to run selenium tests on Chrome browser using Javascript (node). I am following the instructions on https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/WebDriverJs as well as https://code.google.com/p/chromedriver/wiki/GettingStarted First I downloaded the chromedriver, and ran it on a terminal: ``` $ ./chromedriver Starting ChromeDriver (v2.2) on port 9515 ``` And then, I installed selenium-webdriver: ``` $ npm install selenium-webdriver npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/selenium-webdriver npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/selenium-webdriver selenium-webdriver@2.35.0 node_modules/selenium-webdriver ``` Then, I started node console and tried to build the webdriver instance ``` $ node > var webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver') undefined > var driver = new webdriver.Builder().usingServer('http://localhost:9515/wd/hub').withCapabilities(webdriver.Capabilities.chrome()).build(); undefined > timers.js:103 if (!proces…

Accepted Answer

Couple of things here.

By default, the chromedriver server handles commands at /, not /wd/hub. So you should be able to do:

```
new webdriver.Builder().usingServer('http://localhost:9515').build();
```

If you want the chromedriver to have the same signature as the standalone Selenium server, start it with `--url-base=/wd/hub`.

There's no need to start the chromedriver yourself - selenium-webdriver will do it for you if you request Chrome and omit a server location (make sure chromedriver can be found on your system `PATH`):

```
new webdriver.Builder()
    .withCapabilities(webdriver.Capabilities.chrome())
    .build();
```

Selenium WebDriverJS, cannot build webdriver for Chrome

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