Selenium 2 - Setting user agent for IE and Chrome

Question

I need to change the user agent value in IE and Chrome for some of our tests. The only selenium 2 examples I've come across only work with FirefoxDriver.

Has anyone managed to change the user agent for IE and Chrome?

Mark

Answer 1

I know this is veery old by now, but I stumbled across it and a few seconds ago and I also found the real solution (at least for the latest version of Selenium).

So here we go (Python, example faking the iPad UA):

from selenium import webdriver

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 5_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A334 Safari/7534.48.3')

driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)

# ...loads of fun...

I hope this is helpful for anyone else having the same problem. Oh, and it also works with all the other Chrome command line options. Njoy ;)

Answer 2

This is how I got it running in python for Chrome.

 from selenium import webdriver 
 ...
 def setUp(self):
        capabilities = webdriver.DesiredCapabilities.CHROME
        capabilities["chrome.switches"] = ["--user-agent="+USER_AGENT_STRING] 
        cls.driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="servers/chromedriver",desired_capabilities=capabilities)
        self.driver.implicitly_wait(5)
        self.verificationErrors = []

Answer 3

Here's an answer for PHP:

$options = new ChromeOptions();
$options->addArguments(['--user-agent=my fake user-agent string']);
$capabilities = DesiredCapabilities::chrome();
$capabilities->setCapability(ChromeOptions::CAPABILITY, $options);
$driver = RemoteWebDriver::create($host,$capabilities);