Post#23.Handle Browser notification, infobars

addArguments in selenium

Using addArguments method we can achieve result of the all the methods in ChromeOptions/FirefoxOptions/InternetExplorerOptions class.


For Example, we can make the browser as headless, we can add proxy, we can add extensions, so on..

In below example shows how to remove the information bar while executing the automation in chrome.

package pack2;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions;

public class ChromeOptionsEx

{

            public static void main(String[] args) {

                        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "D:\\PATH\\chromedriver.exe");

                        ChromeOptions fo = new ChromeOptions();

                        // disable the info bar

                        fo.addArguments("--disable-infobars");

                        // create object to firefx driver, register options class

                        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(fo);

                        driver.get("https://bing.com");

            }

}

Output of the add arguments

Handle Browser notification

Lot of websites has started sending notifications these days. You get these notifications on desktop or device even when the concerned web page is not open in your browser.

These are also called as Web push notifications. These notifications looks like below in chrome browser: We have to use addArguments method to handle these kind of browser notifications,

package pack2;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions;

public class ChromeOptionsEx

{

            public static void main(String[] args) {

                        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "D:\\PATH\\chromedriver.exe");

                        ChromeOptions fo = new ChromeOptions();

                        fo.addArguments("--disable-notifications");

                        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(fo);

                        driver.get("https://drupal-stage-web.weather.com/en-IN");

            }

}