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title: Legacy Selenium WebDriver Examples | TestingBot
description: Legacy Selenium 2/3 WebDriver examples in Ruby, Python, PHP, Java and
  C# for TestingBot. For current Selenium 4 W3C examples see the Selenium documentation
  index.
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# Selenium WebDriver Examples (legacy)

**Legacy examples.** The code on this page uses the pre-W3C `DesiredCapabilities`, `version` and `platform` keys that were removed in Selenium 4. For current Selenium 4 W3C-compliant examples see [Selenium Testing in the Cloud](https://testingbot.com/support/web-automate/selenium) and the per-language guides for [Java](https://testingbot.com/support/web-automate/selenium/java), [Python](https://testingbot.com/support/web-automate/selenium/python), [Ruby](https://testingbot.com/support/web-automate/selenium/ruby), [Node.js](https://testingbot.com/support/web-automate/selenium/nodejs), [C#](https://testingbot.com/support/web-automate/selenium/csharp) and [PHP](https://testingbot.com/support/web-automate/selenium/php).

You can find current Selenium documentation on the [official Selenium docs](https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/en/webdriver/).

The examples below are kept for historical reference for users still on Selenium 2 or Selenium 3.

## Ruby and Selenium Webdriver

- Install the webdriver gem: 

```bash
gem install selenium-webdriver
```

- Replace `API_KEY` and `API_SECRET` with your key and secret, which you can find in the [member area](https://testingbot.com/users/sign_up)

Code example:

```ruby
#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'selenium-webdriver'

caps = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Capabilities.firefox
caps.version = "8"
caps.platform = :WINDOWS

driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for(
  :remote,
  :url => "https://API_KEY:API_SECRET@hub.testingbot.com/wd/hub",
  :desired_capabilities => caps)
driver.navigate.to "https://www.google.com"
element = driver.find_element(:name, 'q')
element.send_keys "Hello WebDriver!"
element.submit
puts driver.title
driver.quit
```

## Python and Selenium Webdriver

- Install WebDriver: 

```bash
easy_install -U selenium
```

- Replace `API_KEY` and `API_SECRET` with your key and secret, which you can find in the [member area](https://testingbot.com/users/sign_up)

Code example:

```python
import unittest
from selenium import webdriver
from testingbot import driver

class Selenium2Test(unittest.TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        desired_capabilities = webdriver.DesiredCapabilities.FIREFOX
        desired_capabilities['version'] = '8'
        desired_capabilities['platform'] = 'WINDOWS'

        self.driver = webdriver.Remote(
            desired_capabilities=desired_capabilities,
            command_executor="https://API_KEY:API_SECRET@hub.testingbot.com/wd/hub"
        )

    def test_google(self):
        self.driver.get('https://www.google.com')
        assert "Google" in self.driver.title

    def tearDown(self):
        self.driver.quit()

if __name__ == ' __main__':
    unittest.main()
```

## PHP and Selenium Webdriver

- Download the [PHP-WebDriver client](https://github.com/php-webdriver/php-webdriver). 

```php
<php

require_once __DIR__. '/php-webdriver/ __init__.php';

class WebdriverTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
 	/**
    * @var WebDriverSession
    */
    protected $_session;

    public function setUp()
    {
        parent::setUp();
        $web_driver = new WebDriver("https://api_key:api_secret@hub.testingbot.com/wd/hub");
        $this->_session = $web_driver->session("firefox", array('platform' => "WINDOWS", "version" => "latest"));
    }

    public function tearDown()
    {
		$parts = explode("/", $this->_session->getURL());
		$sessionID = $parts[sizeof($parts) - 1];

		$data = array(
			'session_id' => $sessionID,
			'client_key' => "api_key",
			'client_secret' => "api_secret",
			'test[status_message]' => $this->getStatusMessage(),
			'test[success]' => !$this->hasFailed(),
			'test[name]' => $this->toString()
		);

		$this->apiCall($data);

        $this->_session->close();
        unset($this->_session);
        parent::tearDown();
    }

    public function testTitle()
    {
    	$this->_session->open('https://www.google.com/');
    }

    protected function apiCall(array $postData)
    {
		$data = http_build_query($postData);
        $curl = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.testingbot.com/v1/tests/" . $postData['session_id']);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT");
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $postData['client_key'] . ":" . $postData['client_secret']);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
        $response = curl_exec($curl);
		curl_close($curl);
    }
}
```

## Java and Selenium Webdriver

- Install the [Java WebDriver Bindings](https://www.selenium.dev/downloads/)
- Replace `API_KEY` and `API_SECRET` with your key and secret, which you can find in the [member area](https://testingbot.com/users/sign_up)

Code example:

```java
import org.openqa.selenium.*;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.*;
import java.net.URL;

public class Test {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

        DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.firefox();
        capabilities.setCapability("version", "latest");
        capabilities.setCapability("platform", Platform.WINDOWS);

        WebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(
           new URL("http://API_KEY:API_SECRET@hub.testingbot.com/wd/hub"),
           capabilities);

        driver.get("https://www.google.com");
        WebElement search = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));
        search.sendKeys("Hello, WebDriver");
        search.submit();
        System.out.println(driver.getTitle());
        driver.quit();
    }
}
```

## C# and Selenium Webdriver

- Download the official C# Client from the [SeleniumHQ downloads page](https://www.selenium.dev/downloads/). 
- Replace `API_KEY` and `API_SECRET` with your key and secret, which you can find in the [member area](https://testingbot.com/users/sign_up)

```csharp
using NUnit.Framework;
using System;
using Selenium;
using System.Web;
using System.Text;
using System.Net;
using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Remote;

namespace Test
{
	[TestFixture()]
	public class Test
	{
		private IWebDriver driver;

        [SetUp]
        public void Init()
        {
            DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.Firefox();
            capabilities.SetCapability(CapabilityType.Version, "8");
			capabilities.SetCapability("api_key", "REPLACE_API_KEY");
            capabilities.SetCapability("api_secret", "REPLACE_API_SECRET");

            driver = new RemoteWebDriver(
                new Uri("https://hub.testingbot.com/wd/hub/"), capabilities);
        }

        [Test]
        public void TestCase()
        {
            driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("https://www.google.com");
            StringAssert.Contains("Google", driver.Title);
        }

        [TearDown]
        public void Cleanup()
        {
            driver.Quit();
        }
	}
}
```

## WebDriver-backed Selenium

This feature gives you the ability to run your existing Selenium RC code backed by a WebDriver instance.   
 This can help you in migrating to WebDriver since it allows you to use the two API's (RC and WebDriver) in the same test.   
 Please see the following example in Ruby:

```ruby
#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require "rubygems"
require 'testingbot'
gem "selenium-client"
gem "selenium-webdriver"
require "selenium-webdriver"
require "selenium/client"

selenium = Selenium::Client::Driver.new :host => "hub.testingbot.com",
                                        :port => 4444,
                                        :url => "https://www.facebook.com",
                                        :browser => "*webdriver"

caps = {
  :browserName => "iexplore",
  :platform => "WINDOWS"
}
urlhub = "http://API_KEY:API_SECRET@hub.testingbot.com/wd/hub"
client = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Http::Default.new
client.timeout = 120

@webdriver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :remote, :url => urlhub, :desired_capabilities => caps, :http_client => client
selenium.start :driver => @webdriver
puts @webdriver.title == selenium.title # WebDriver and RC together
selenium.open "/" # RC
@webdriver.quit # WebDriver
```

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