Selenium WebDriverWait class unusable when adding Selenium PhantomJS

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I am trying to use Selenium's WebDriverWait together with Selenium PhantomJSDriver in my test . At the addition of the Selenium.WebDriver package, the class is usable ( under OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI) When I add the Selenium.WebDriver.PhantomJS.Xplatform package, that becomes unusable.

If I switch the order of adding the above mentioned packages( managed both time via Nuget, using Rider), the Selenium.WebDriver will make the OpenQA.Selenium.PhantomJS unreachable . I have also added Selenium.Support as seen here : Cannot find WebDriverWait class in OpenQA.Selenium (C#), but that did not help.

Any suggestions on how could I use the WebDriverWait together with PhantomJS?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 23 '19 at 10:33

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PhantomJS is deprecated for several years. Use headless chrome instead

ChromeOptions options = .ChromeOptions()
options.AddArguments("headless");

IWebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options));

answered Sep 23 '19 at 10:33

Guy

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I was interested in PhantomJS because it did not imply having a browser installed. As far as I know, using ChromeDriver does require having Chrome browser installed, which is kind of a deal-breaker because I would want to run it on a machine which won't have it. Does it happen to know an alternative for that in Selenium? – Daniel Sep 23 '19 at 10:37
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@Daniel Have a look at [HtmlUnitDriver](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5094605/is-there-an-htmlunitdriver-for-net) – Guy Sep 23 '19 at 10:43
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Thank you, I will check out that first ( also maybe selenium xvfb) . I will accept this as answer as it puts me on the right track. – Daniel Sep 23 '19 at 10:52

Selenium WebDriverWait class unusable when adding Selenium PhantomJS

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