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Selenium WebDriver - Safari Options

Selenium Webdriver can be used to run automated tests on the Safari browser. There are certain functionalities and characteristics which are applicable to only Safari for Apple users. Safari is a prominent browser and is provided by default by Apple devices. For Safari browser versions 10 and greater than 10, the safaridriver comes automatically and is not required to be installed separately.

The safari driver is installed on the operating system by default which is not the case for Firefox and Chromium browsers. We would need to do initial setups - enable Develop menu in the Safari browser before actually running the tests on it. By default, the Develop menu does not remain visible.

Selenium Safari Options 1

To do so, we have to open Safari, then click on Settings. Next, we would need to move to the Advanced tab, and check the option Show Features for web developers.

Selenium Safari Options 2

To start running automation tests on Safari browser, we would need to run the command from the terminal −

safaridriver  --enable

Let us take an example of the page below, where we initiate a Safari driver session along the SafariOptions. Then we would obtain the browser title - Selenium Practice - Student Registration Form and current URL - https://www.tutorialspoint.com/selenium/.

Selenium Safari Options 3

To use SafariOptions class along with SafariDriver, we would need to add the import statements: import org.openqa.selenium.safari.SafariOptions and import org.openqa.selenium.safari.SafariDriver.

Syntax

// Using the Safari options
SafariOptions opts = new SafariOptions();
WebDriver driver = new SafariDriver(opts);

// opening the Safari browser and launch a URL
driver.get("https://www.tutorialspoint.com/selenium/practice/selenium_automation_practice.php");

// get the page title
System.out.println("Browser title is: " + driver.getTitle());

// get the current URL
System.out.println("Current URL is: " + driver.getCurrentUrl());

Example

Code Implementation on SafariOpts.java class file.

package org.example;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.safari.SafariDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.safari.SafariOptions;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

public class SafariOpts {
   public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {

      // Using the Safari options
      SafariOptions opts = new SafariOptions();
      WebDriver driver = new SafariDriver(opts);

      // adding an implicit wait of 15 secs
      driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(15, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

      // opening the Safari browser and launch a URL
      driver.get("https://www.tutorialspoint.com/selenium/practice/selenium_automation_practice.php");

      // get the page title
      System.out.println("Browser title is: " + driver.getTitle());
      
      // get the current URL
      System.out.println("Current URL is: " + driver.getCurrentUrl());

      // closing the browser
      driver.quit();
   }
}

Output

Browser title is: Selenium Practice - Student Registration Form
Current URL is: 
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/selenium/practice/selenium_automation_practice.php

Process finished with exit code 0

In the above example, we had launched the Safari browser with SafariOptions then obtained browser title and current URL with the message in the console - Browser title is: Selenium Practice − Student Registration Form and Current URL is: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/selenium/ respectively.

Finally, the message Process finished with exit code 0 was received, signifying successful execution of the code.

Safari browsers would always store the logs(if enabled) in the location − ~/Library/Logs/com.apple.WebDriver/. Unlike other browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and so on, we would not get the option to save the logs and its levels to other locations and values respectively.

Let us take an example, where we would enable the Safari Logs with the below implementation.

Syntax

Syntax to enable logs −

// Using the Safari options
SafariOptions opts = new SafariOptions();
WebDriver driver = new SafariDriver(opts);

// adding an implicit wait of 15 secs
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(15, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

// opening the Safari browser and launch a URL
driver.get("https://www.tutorialspoint.com/index.htm");

// to the enable logs
SafariDriverService service = new SafariDriverService.Builder()
   .withLogging(true)
   .build();

Example

Code Implementation on SafariOptsLogs.java class file.

package org.example;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.safari.SafariDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.safari.SafariDriverService;
import org.openqa.selenium.safari.SafariOptions;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

public class SafariOptsLogs {
   public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {

      // Using the Safari options
      SafariOptions opts = new SafariOptions();
      WebDriver driver = new SafariDriver(opts);

      // adding an implicit wait of 15 secs
      driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(15, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

      // opening the Safari browser and launch a URL
      driver.get("https://www.tutorialspoint.com/selenium/practice/selenium_automation_practice.php");
      
      // enabling the Safari logs
      SafariDriverService service = new SafariDriverService.Builder().withLogging(true).build();

      // get the page title
      System.out.println("Logging enabled: " + service);

      // close the browser
      driver.quit();
   }
}

Output

Logging enabled:
org.openqa.selenium.safari.SafariDriverService@3eeb318f

Process finished with exit code 0

Let us take an example, where we would disable the Safari Logs with the below implementation.

Syntax

Syntax to disable logs −

// Using the Safari options
SafariOptions opts = new SafariOptions();
WebDriver driver = new SafariDriver(opts);

// adding an implicit wait of 15 secs
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(15, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

// opening the Safari browser and launch a URL
driver.get("https://www.tutorialspoint.com/selenium/practice/selenium_automation_practice.php");

// to disable the logs to false
SafariDriverService service = new SafariDriverService.Builder()
   .withLogging(false)
   .build();

Example

Code Implementation on SafariOptsLogsFalse.java class file.

package org.example;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.safari.SafariDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.safari.SafariDriverService;
import org.openqa.selenium.safari.SafariOptions;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

public class SafariOptsLogsFalse {
   public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {

      // Using the Safari options
      SafariOptions opts = new SafariOptions();
      WebDriver driver = new SafariDriver(opts);

      // adding an implicit wait of 15 secs
      driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(15, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

      // opening the Safari browser and launch a URL
      driver.get("https://www.tutorialspoint.com/selenium/practice/selenium_automation_practice.php");

      // disabling the Safari Logs
      SafariDriverService service = new SafariDriverService.Builder()
         .withLogging(false)
         .build();

      // get the page title
      System.out.println("Launched Browser title is: " + driver.getTitle());
      
      // get the current URL
      System.out.println("Current URL is: " + driver.getCurrentUrl());

      // close the browser
      driver.quit();
   }
}

Output

Browser title is: Selenium Practice - Student Registration Form
Current URL is: 
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/selenium/practice/selenium_automation_practice.php

Process finished with exit code 0

In this tutorial, we had discussed how to handle Safari Options with the help of various examples along with the Selenium Webdriver.

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