How to open Chrome browser console through Selenium?

Question

I want to open chrome browser console by pressing keyboard keys Ctrl+Shift+j in selenium webdriver. I am able to do this action using Robot class but I want this without Robot class. I have used the Actions class and Keys class using sendKeys. But I am unable to open browser console.

Is it chrome browser version issue or OS? Why the browser console is not opening using Action class and Keys class. ?

Answer 1

To open chrome browser console you can use the ChromeOptions class with --auto-open-devtools-for-tabs argument as follows:

• Test Configuration:

  • Selenium: Selenium Standalone Server v3.14.0
  • ChromeDriver: ChromeDriver 2.46.628402
  • Chrome: Google Chrome 72.0.3626.96

• Code Block:

  import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
  import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
  import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions;
  
  public class A_Chrome_Browser_Console {
  
      public static void main(String[] args) {
  
          System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Utility\\BrowserDrivers\\chromedriver.exe");
          ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
          options.addArguments("start-maximized");
          options.addArguments("--disable-extensions");
          options.addArguments("--auto-open-devtools-for-tabs");
          WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
          driver.get("https://www.google.com/");
          System.out.println(driver.getTitle());
      }
  }
  

• Console Output:

  Google
  

• Browser Console Snapshot:

You can find a relevant python based discussion in Opening inspect (pressing F12) on Chrome via Selenium