C# Selenium How to use Safari Technology Preview

Question

How we instruct Selenium to use Safari Technology Preview in C#?

In Java, we can set that using the method setUseTechnologyPreview, but unable to find similar method in C# class SafariOptions.

We have tried by using options.AddAdditionalCapability('useTechnologyPreview', true), but it did not work.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 16 '17 at 17:40

I ran into the same problem and there's not a lot of documentation available. It is possible, though. The webdriver executable lives inside the application for the preview. Set up a webdriver service to use it. (I have a few extra options included...)

SafariDriverService serv = SafariDriverService.CreateDefaultService("/Applications/Safari Technology Preview.app/Contents/MacOS/", "safaridriver");
                SafariOptions opts = new SafariOptions();
                opts.AddAdditionalCapability(CapabilityType.AcceptSslCertificates, true);
                opts.AddAdditionalCapability(CapabilityType.AcceptInsecureCertificates, true);
                opts.AddAdditionalCapability("cleanSession", true);
                webDriver = new SafariDriver(serv, opts);

Thanks for the reply. We are using Selenium grid to run the test and we are instantiating the driver as follows:- `driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new Uri(seleniumHostUrl), capabilities)` Could you please let us know how we can setup the driver service here. — Jibu, Jun 20 '17 at 09:37
If anyone is looking for how to do it with Ruby and Capybara. Check here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44663481/how-to-setup-capybara-with-safari-technology-preview-in-ruby/44663482#44663482 — N D, Jun 20 '17 at 21:41

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 14 '17 at 11:32

For remote Selenium, we are using the following approach:

Dictionary<string, object> remoteSafariOptions = new Dictionary<string, object>();
remoteSafariOptions["technologyPreview"] = true;
safariOptions = new SafariOptions();
safariOptions.AddAdditionalCapability("safari.options", remoteSafariOptions);
browser = new RemoteWebDriver(new Uri(seleniumRemoteGridUrl), 
safariOptions.ToCapabilities());

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 27 '20 at 18:30

You may need to set the browser names in the current versions of SafariDriver:

            var safariService = SafariDriverService.CreateDefaultService("/Applications/Safari Technology Preview.app/Contents/MacOS/", "safaridriver");
            var safariOptions = new SafariOptions();
           safariOptions.AddAdditionalCapability(CapabilityType.BrowserName, "Safari Technology Preview");
            driver = new SafariDriver(safariService, safariOptions);

C# Selenium How to use Safari Technology Preview

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