How to get Browserversion and browser name?

[jyo rani]

This seems to be so hard for me.I am a qtp user moving towards
selenium2.


How do i get browsername and browserversion with Webdriver?

I need to achieve it with IE,Chrome and FF browsers.


Please help.

Thanks

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

Driver.executeScript("return navigator.userAgent","")
Parse the string that you would get from this and you should be able to get the browser name and version.

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[jyo rani]

i tried the  Driver.executeScript("return navigator.userAgent","")

For IE it doesn't return any useragent. so not sure how to get useragent.

Can you tell me how to parse the string?

Sorry for basic questions...just started learning selenium....

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

Were you doing something like this for IE ?

WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver();

String userAgent = driver.executeScript("return navigator.userAgent","");

Once you have the userAgent value in the string, its only a question of you parsing it using methods available in the String class.

Thanks & Regards
Krishnan Mahadevan

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[skonthebass]

For posterity sake, driver.GetType().Name.ToString()  (this is C# implementation)

[Kevin O.]

The OP wanted version too. In Python this you can inspect the actual capabilities by looking at driver.capabilities (a dictionary)

In C#, I would think it would look more like

String name = ((RemoteWebDriver) driver).Capabilities.BrowserName

String version = ((RemoteWebDriver) driver).Capabilities.Version

[Palla Subramanyam]

Hi Uttam,

i tried below script but in console displayed null as browser name nothing else.

On Wednesday, September 24, 2014 at 7:20:49 PM UTC+5:30, Uttam karimbedu wrote:

Hi, you can click on below link you will get complete script for "How to get Browsername , version and Os details ? http://techlearn.in/content/how-get-system-os-browser-name-and-version-using-java-and-selenium-webdriver".

http://techlearn.in/content/how-get-system-os-browser-name-and-version-using-java-and-selenium-webdriver

[Gaurav Chaturvedi]

Hi Palla,

Please try with the below snippet of code.

Code:

 driver.get("****URL******");
        String s = (String) ((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("return navigator.userAgent;");
        System.out.println("Browser name : " + s);

Regards,

Gaurav Chaturvedi

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[Krishnan Mahadevan]

Couple the output of the Javascript that Gaurav shared with a code snippet as below 

https://github.com/paypal/SeLion/blob/develop/client/src/main/java/com/paypal/selion/platform/grid/DriverFactory.java#L324-L335

and you should have a readable output.

Ofcourse you would need to have a maven dependency as below :

http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/net.sf.uadetector/uadetector-resources/2014.10

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[Oscar Rieken]

Late to chime in but...

Don't you know the versions because you are launching them from your code?

and you have them installed on the machine you are running the tests on?

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[Krishnan Mahadevan]

Oscar,

Here's a typical scenario wherein this would be useful for sure.

Lets say your capabilities read as just "Firefox on MAC" and lets say you are leveraging a cloud execution environment such as SauceLabs. In those cases your test is going to be routed to a firefox browser on MAC but what version of MAC and what version of Firefox it was executed against is something that you wouldn't know.

Another use case is when you have a bunch of windows nodes each of which is perhaps running a different version of firefox version in your in house grid and you would like to know which browser version it was executed against.

So there are use cases wherein this is a need of the hour. 

Chrome browser is another use case [ it keeps auto upgrading itself and the mechanism of turning off the auto upgrade doesnt seem to be an easy thing ] so it would be good to find out what is the browser version in this case as well.

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[Oscar Rieken]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 11:06 PM, Krishnan Mahadevan <krishnan.ma...@gmail.com> wrote:

Oscar,

Here's a typical scenario wherein this would be useful for sure.

Lets say your capabilities read as just "Firefox on MAC" and lets say you are leveraging a cloud execution environment such as SauceLabs. In those cases your test is going to be routed to a firefox browser on MAC but what version of MAC and what version of Firefox it was executed against is something that you wouldn't know.

I never actually used Saucelabs. but this makes sense. 

 

Another use case is when you have a bunch of windows nodes each of which is perhaps running a different version of firefox version in your in house grid and you would like to know which browser version it was executed against.

wouldn't you just specify the version and platform in the capabilities then pass that to the browser when you create the instance of it? 

Thats how I do it, but then make those all env variables that can be passed in when I execute the tests themselves.  

 

 

So there are use cases wherein this is a need of the hour. 

 

Chrome browser is another use case [ it keeps auto upgrading itself and the mechanism of turning off the auto upgrade doesnt seem to be an easy thing ] so it would be good to find out what is the browser version in this case as well.

this on windows is easier i just use the chocolatey package for the specific version I need then connect that to my grid 

 

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[tulsi.tester]

Hi,

Use the following code snippet.

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","path to your chrome driver.exe");

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

Capabilities caps = ((RemoteWebDriver)driver).getCapabilities();

System.out.println(caps.getBrowserName());

System.out.println(caps.getVersion());

System.out.println(caps.getPlatform());

//we can also find using user agent. After getting string we have to parse it

JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;

String useragent = (String)js.executeScript("return navigator.userAgent;");

System.out.println("user agent is "+useragent);

[CH!NN@ K]

[deepthi cynthia]

If you are using protractor you can get the browser's info 

browser.getCapabilities().then(function(c) {

                 console.log(c);

                console.log(c.get('browserName'));

});

[Purushotham Karimbedu]

http://www.seleniumlearn.com/environment-details-browser-version-and-browser-name-using-selenium

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[Always a student]

Were you able to achieve it?

I am on C# and tried both below approaches and didnt get what I wanted.

a) string BrowserVersion = ((RemoteWebDriver)DriverContext.Driver).Capabilities.Version;
     This one worked with Chrome but FF and IE are returning an empty string.

b) string userAgent = driver.ExecuteScript("return navigator.userAgent","");

    I tried this with IE and it returned this weird string that seems to imply it is Mozilla

    "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; Trident/7.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; rv:11.0) like Gecko"

Any other suggestion anyone (for c#)?

On Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 9:08:05 PM UTC-5, testingzeal wrote:

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

Now that you have the user agent string, you might want to use a library such as this : https://github.com/ua-parser/uap-csharp

 

To parse the user agent and extract values out of it.

 

Thanks & Regards

Krishnan Mahadevan

 

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[Always a student]

Thanks :)

My issue here is, it is telling me it is mozilla firefox where as it is actually IE that I executed the test on.

"   I tried this with IE and it returned this weird string that seems to imply it is Mozilla

    "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; Trident/7.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; rv:11.0) like Gecko""

So, i think even before parsing, I havent gotteen to a point where it is returning me the correct info.

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

The user agent you shared is not firefox. It is IE

 

Open up the URL : https://developers.whatismybrowser.com/useragents/parse/

 

And paste the user agent:

 

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; Trident/7.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; rv:11.0) like Gecko

 

And parse it to see the results for yourself.

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[Always a student]

Oh Okay. Thanks very very much Krishnan :)

[Always a student]

It works as expected but i noticed the NuGet package is more than 300mb. Even my whole solution combined is less than 325mb and just this one package is >300mb. Its adding a lot of stuff  like below. Is there any alternative to get this UAParser?

[Pravesh Jha]

U dnt need to get user agent lets write simple code 

 C# and selenium

 ICapabilities capabilities = ((RemoteWebDriver)driver).Capabilities;

                strBrowserVersion = capabilities.Version.ToString();

                if (strBrowserVersion == "")

                    strBrowserVersion = capabilities.GetCapability("browserVersion").ToString();