selenium.webdriver.common.service

Classes

Service(executable, port, log_output, str, …)

The abstract base class for all service objects.

class selenium.webdriver.common.service.Service(executable: str = None, port: int = 0, log_output: Union[int, str, IO[Any]] = None, env: Optional[Mapping[Any, Any], None] = None, **kwargs)

The abstract base class for all service objects. Services typically launch a child program in a new process as an interim process to communicate with a browser.

Parameters:

• executable – install path of the executable.
• port – Port for the service to run on, defaults to 0 where the operating system will decide.
• log_output – (Optional) int representation of STDOUT/DEVNULL, any IO instance or String path to file.
• env – (Optional) Mapping of environment variables for the new process, defaults to os.environ.

assert_process_still_running() → None

Check if the underlying process is still running.

command_line_args() → List[str]

A List of program arguments (excluding the executable).

is_connectable() → bool

Establishes a socket connection to determine if the service running on the port is accessible.

path

send_remote_shutdown_command() → None

Dispatch an HTTP request to the shutdown endpoint for the service in an attempt to stop it.

service_url

Gets the url of the Service.

start() → None

Starts the Service.

Exceptions:

• WebDriverException : Raised either when it can’t start the service or when it can’t connect to the service

stop() → None

Stops the service.