Issues with selenium node

[RaiRoo]

Hi everybody,
I am just doing my first step with selenium and the respective node. So I installed Selenium-hub and selenium-standalone-chrome in a docker container on my Synology. Installation was without any problem and both containers are up and running.
I added node-red-contrib-selenium-webdriver to my node-red installation (which I added as an adapter of I-broker). Node-red (and some further flows) is working fine without any problem.
Then I created a basic flow: inject => open-web => debug with an open-web node configured as server http://192.168.178.3:32772 and chrome as browser. After deploying the open-web shows "connected" as status.
But when triggering that flow after some seconds I get the message "connection lost" ... and reestablished. The msg.payload is empty.
...
Any ideas about that???

PS: The log file (ioBroker adapter in debug) says:
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node-red.0	2020-09-15 23:16:44.549	debug
node-red.0	2020-09-15 23:16:44.549	debug
node-red.0	2020-09-15 23:16:44.549	debug
node-red.0	2020-09-15 23:16:44.549	debug
node-red.0	2020-09-15 23:16:44.549	debug
node-red.0	2020-09-15 23:16:44.549	debug	(2844) 15 Sep 23:16:44 - UnsupportedOperationError:
node-red.0	2020-09-15 23:16:44.548	debug	(2844) 15 Sep 23:16:44 - [red] Uncaught Exception:

[ristomatti]

The selenium node hasn't been updated in quite some time, maybe you could try https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-puppeteer-new? It has been recently created and it uses Puppeteer which is a more modern browser automation framework than Selenium/WebDriver. I haven't used either though so can't give any further hints.

[RaiRoo]

good point. I will try!!

[paulkeates]

Hi,

You should also look at WebDriver IO nodes (node-red-contrib-wdio) - they are stable,simple, and fast. The Puppeteer nodes are still in alpha I believe and may be missing some features you need.

Cheers,
Paul

[RaiRoo]

Hi Paul,
in GitHub the comment says "Experimental nodes to work with selenium 2.0 webdriver bindings - uses webdriverio" - with no further explanation. Any ideas about which further components (apart from node-red-contrib-webdriverio) I have to install?
Rainer

[paulkeates]

Hi,
Probably the simplest way to get going:

1. Install WDIO nodes
2. Install 'Selenium-standalone start' as a npm package
3. Install Java (if not already installed) - dependency for Selenium-standalone

Start Node-RED
Start a new, separate shell (depending on OS) and in that do 'selenium-standalone start'

The WDIO nodes communicate over port 4444 with the selenium-standalone session.

Cheers!
Paul

[RaiRoo]

Great, Paul. It works! Thank you so much for your support - was really a big help!!!

[paulkeates]

Hi,
Sure - glad it works.
Our company wrote & open-sourced the WDIO nodes.
We use it internally for web automation.

Cheers,
Paul