Google for Testing - CLI

This is a personal project, but the community can also contribute to this project, and is build with Laravel Zero.

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⚠️ THE CLI IS NOT READY YET, DON'T USE IN PRODUCTION ⚠️

The why?

It's simple, because I need a tool to manage my Chrome Driver and Chrome Browser, but... the reason behind that is that in my work, I need to automate some interaction in a webpage, and because that page doesn't have an API, and doing some manual tasks is painfully boring... and, trying to spin-up a Chrome Driver server with the correct Browser Version, is painful (I HATE manual tasks), I decided to create this tiny CLI (in commands, not in size) to help me.

I HATE MANUAL TASKS

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Documentation

• Commands
  • Install Google Chrome Browser: install:browser
  • Install Google Chrome Driver: install:driver
  • Manage Google Chrome Driver: manage:driver

Commands

The two installation commands shares similar signatures, something like this:

./google-for-testing install:<browser|driver> [options]

There are three options available to change the way the command works.

• --ver=[VER]: This option by default is set to 115.0.5763.0 in both commands. If you provide a milestone version, this will trigger a search box to select all the versions available.

**Example** 

> **Note**:
For the `install:driver` command, the default version it's really important, this is the started version from where you can get
the `chromedriver` binary, before that version, we don't have access to it (for now).

• --latest: This option will download the latest version.

• --path=[PATH]: This will let you choose where to download it.

Note: The default location for every download is $HOME/.google-for-testing

Install Google Chrome Browser

The syntax for to install Google Chrome Browser is the next one:

./google-for-testing install:browser [options]

Running this command without any option, will download the default version 115.0.5763.0, but you can choose any other version to download (if is available).

You can check the available versions on this API endpoint 👈

Install Google Chrome Driver

The syntax for to install Google Chrome Driver is the next one:

./google-for-testing install:driver [options]

Running this command without any option, will download the default version 115.0.5763.0, but you can choose any other version to download (if is available).

Note: You can check the available versions on this API endpoint 👈, but keep in mind that for chromedriver the versions starts at 115.0.5763.0, so any version below that we will not have access to the binary download link (for now).

Manage Google Chrome Driver

If you want to manage one instance or more of Google Chrome Browser, this could be a time-consuming task, and to simplify this task, we have several action in one command.

The command ./google-for-testing manage:driver [--] [<action>] have 6 actions to manage a Google Chorme Driver.

start action

The first action is start, and this is as simple as running the next command:

./google-for-testing manage:driver start

This will start a new instance of Chrome Driver in port 9515 (by default).

stop action

The second action is stop, and this is as simple as running the next command:

./google-for-testing manage:driver stop

This will stop the instance of Chrome Driver in port 9515 (by default).

restart action

The third action is restart, and this is as simple as running the next command:

./google-for-testing manage:driver restart

This will restart the instance of Chrome Driver in port 9515 (by default).

status action

The fourth action is status, and this is as simple as running the next command:

./google-for-testing manage:driver status

This will check the health of the Chrome Driver instance in port 9515 (by default).

list action

The fifth action is list, and this is as simple as running the next command:

./google-for-testing manage:driver list

This will list all the Chrome Driver instances in a table. This table will have the PID and PORT.

Note: This command will list only the instances spin-up by this CLI.

kill action

The sixth action is kill, and this is as simple as running the next command:

./google-for-testing manage:driver kill

This will search for all the instances of Chrome Driver in different ports, and then kill all the process.

Note: This action will ask you for your permission to do it.

These are the six actions available in the command manage:driver, and we have two options we can use in conjunction with these actions. For example, if you need to spin-up 2 or more instances of Chrome Driver, you need to specify the ports where you need to spin up the servers with the option --port or -p.

./google-for-testing manage:driver start --port=9515 --port=9516

This will spin-up two servers, one in port 9515, and the second one in port 9516. As I said, this option can be used with the other three other actions: stop, restart, and status.

Note: This option only can be used with the first four actions: start, stop, restart, and status.

The second one is just to specify where to search for the Chrome Driver binary, you just need to specify the option --path.

./google-for-testing manage:driver start --path=/some/directory/path

This option will only search for the binary chromedriver in the path specify, so be sure to have this binary available and named correctly.

License

Google for Testing - CLI is an open-source software licensed under the MIT license.