Running selenium recorder from terminal

[Ashish3080]

💬 Questions and Help

I want to use selenium recorder from command line.
so how can I directly start the recording without using Selenium IDE UI.

[toddtarsi]

Oh gosh, I'm sorry I haven't explored that possibility space. Although, @corevo once did some work to go down that path. If you'd like to invest in it's development, the tool is mostly functional here:

https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium-ide/tree/trunk/packages/side-cli

We are looking at doing a pretty big architectural change soon when we'll look at making it so the IDE can basically be injected into any browser via preload scripts. However, we aren't there quite yet.

[toddtarsi]

The main pain point that needs to happen to allow use case flexibility like this is that a secure communication protocol needs to be provided to the preload scripts from the host process so that elevated access can be given in a secure way.

[Ashish3080]

Hi @toddtarsi thanks for the reply. I am using python for the record and playback of web elements. I have the playback file, where it follows the .side file to playback the recorded events. But I don't have the recorder to record the elements with their locators (xpath\css\ID\name) during runtime, which is creating a bottleneck in my project.

[toddtarsi]

Are you able to maintain the side file in Selenium IDE v4? I would recommend working in the IDE for recording and playback, and then when you want to do python playback locally or via CI, you should re-transpile your side file to python using side-code-export.

npm i side-code-export @seleniumhq/code-export-python-pytest 
side-code-export @seleniumhq/code-export-python-pytest input.side /py-tests

[toddtarsi]

At some point, I'm going to revisit how the code sits next to the IDE, but there unfortunately isn't bidirectional awareness there yet.