What is Selenoid?

· July 4, 2021

Selenoid

Selenoid is a implementation of Selenium hub using Golang, it uses docker containers to launch the browsers.

Configuration

  • Make sure that you have docker installed in your machine.
  • Download Configuration Manager of Selenoid from here.
  • Rename the file that you downloaded to cm. 
    mv cm_linux_amd64 cm
  • If you are using linux or mac give privilegies to the file. 
    chmod +x cm
  • Start selenoid 
    ./cm selenoid start --vnc

    You can stop it whenever you need using:

    ./cm selenoid stop
  • Start selenoid-ui 
    ./cm selenoid-ui start

    You can stop it with:

    ./cm selenoi-ui stop

Now we can run the tests as we would do with selenium but using the endpoint http://localhost:4444/wd/hub.

In order to check the status of selenoid you can go to http://localhost:4444/status and to open selenoid-ui http://localhost:8080.

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