Launch the Brave web browser on Linux using selenium & JavaScript

Question

I am trying to setup a hello world app to learn Selenium. I want to write a script that opens the Brave web browser.

I tried a few code scripts online and at Stack overflow and nothing seems to work.

const { Builder } = require("selenium-webdriver")

async function example() {

    let driver = await new Builder().forBrowser("brave").build();
    console.log(driver)
    await driver.get("https://www.youtube.com/");



}


example();

The above script does not recognize brave so I changed forBrowser("brave) to "chrome". It still doesn't work.

I found the following code online that allows me to get the exact directory of the browser I want to launch, but I do not know how to combine it with what I already have.

const chrome = require('selenium-webdriver/chrome');


chrome.setDefaultService(new chrome.ServiceBuilder('/usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop').build());

I read the code below at another thread but I am not sure how to launch a browser instance using it.

const chrome = require('selenium-webdriver/chrome')
const chromeOptions = new chrome.Options()

chromeOptions.setChromeBinaryPath('/usr/bin/brave-browser')

EDIT

The code below is my latest attempt at cobbling together methods from around the web to make this work.

const webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver');
const chrome = require('selenium-webdriver/chrome');
const chromeOptions = new chrome.Options()
chromeOptions.setChromeBinaryPath('/home/wktdev/Desktop/selenium/drivers/chrome/chromedriver')


let driver = new webdriver.Builder()
    .forBrowser('chrome')
    .setChromeOptions(chromeOptions)
    .build();


driver.get('http://example.com');

I get an error saying "Error: The ChromeDriver could not be found on the current PATH. "

I am unsure how to proceed

EDIT I have Chrome launching. Here is what I did:

I updated to the latest Chrome Browser. I downloaded the newest chrome driver that mirrors my version of Chrome here:

https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/webdriver/getting_started/install_drivers/

I created a random directory on the desktop such as blah/code and I put the downloaded files there.

I then opened a terminal window and added that directory to my computers path variable like this:

export PATH=$PATH:/some/new/path

I kept the current terminal window open and rand the node.js script and chrome opened.

I now need to know how to change this so that it opens Brave instead

Did you follow this link https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47158434/how-to-run-selenium-tests-on-the-brave-web-browser ? — cruisepandey, Dec 11 '21 at 06:21
I read it and updated my post. The following code does not throw an error but I have no idea how to use it to launch a browser instance: const chrome = require('selenium-webdriver/chrome') const chromeOptions = new chrome.Options() chromeOptions.setChromeBinaryPath('/usr/bin/brave-browser') — William, Dec 11 '21 at 07:02
I don't know much about the JS syntax, so I won't answer. But I do know that, you would need chrome driver exe and brave file location to set the browser instance. — cruisepandey, Dec 11 '21 at 07:04
I have both, I just don't know how to incorporate them into the code properly — William, Dec 11 '21 at 08:13

undetected Selenium · Answer 1 · 2021-12-24T22:36:42.693

As Brave went full-Chromium (starting from version 0.57), to open brave browser you need to set setChromeBinaryPath towards the brave executable as follows:

const webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver');
const chromeOptions = new chrome.Options()
chromeOptions.setChromeBinaryPath('/usr/bin/brave-browser')

let driver = new webdriver.Builder()
    .forBrowser('brave')
    .setChromeOptions(chromeOptions)
    .build();

driver.get('http://example.com');

References

You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussions in:

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 31 '21 at 15:26

You need to specify the path to the brave executable with setChromeBinaryPath. For example (on Windows):

chromeOptions.setChromeBinaryPath('C:/Program Files/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Application/brave.exe')

For me, I copied the chromedriver.exe file to my project folder. But you should also be able to place it anywhere in your PATH environment variable.

Launch the Brave web browser on Linux using selenium & JavaScript

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