Error using Selenium JS Chrome Webdriver

Question

I like to use Selenium chromewebdriver for testing an application.

I started with this Tutorial: https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/WebDriverJs#Getting_Started

I downloaded newest webdriver and added it to path, then I tried to execute the sample code you see under getting started. I added the code to a script and tried to execute it with > node script.js and got the following error message:

undefined:1178
vlog(2, () => this + ' scheduling notifications', this);
         ^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token )
at goog.loadModuleFromSource_ (C:\nodescripts\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\goog\base.js:1123:19)
at Object.goog.loadModule (C:\nodescripts\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\goog\base.js:1085:46)
at C:\nodescripts\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\webdriver\promise.js:1:6
at Object.exports.runInContext (vm.js:64:17)
at Object.Context.closure.goog.retrieveAndExecModule_ (C:\nodescripts\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\_base.js:135:8)
at <anonymous>:1:6
at Object.exports.runInContext (vm.js:64:17)
at Context.closure.closure.vm.createContext.CLOSURE_IMPORT_SCRIPT (C:\nodescripts\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\_base.js:104:12)
at Object.goog.importScript_ (C:\nodescripts\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\goog\base.js:879:9)
at Object.goog.importModule_ (C:\nodescripts\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\goog\base.js:900:14)

Answer 1

There is a bug @version 2.48.0. I tried both on win and on linux and saw the same error message. Try using version 2.47.0.

npm install [email protected]

Update: Update your node.js.

https://nodejs.org/download/release/latest/

Answer 2

For those who get this error and want to use the newer selenium-webdriver version:

Try updating your Node.js version. I was getting the same error -> after updating to v4.2.2 this error does not occur anymore.