How do I start Chromium instead of Chrome in python?

[jmill...@nvidia.com]

I thought I had this working a while ago, but now I get Chrome instead of Chromium.

The code I tried is below...

from selenium import webdriver
webdriver.ChromeOptions().binary_location = '/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser'
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
...

Which pops up a Chrome browser.

I swear in the past this worked, and I've double checked that running the specified location from my shell starts Chromium. I'm using version 23.x of chromedriver. I can try 26 or whatever the latest is, but I figured making more changes wouldn't be a good idea. I have updated Chrome and Chromium a number of times since I last saw this work, but as I said the location appears correct.

Thanks for any tips or URLs.

[Ken Kania]

If this did work before, it's because you didn't have Chrome installed before in a recognizable location, so it picked up Chromium.  The problem is you are not using ChromeOptions correctly.  Check the python documentation and try:

from selenium import webdriver
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()

options.binary_location = '/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser'
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)

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[Joe Millenbach]

“Check the python documentation…”  I’m a bit of a python newb, so where is this?  I’ve tried a lot of searches and found bits and pieces around, but no definitive documentation.  Also I know python can have built in documentation, but I haven’t seen how to access it easily.  I use PyCharm if that helps…I should probably just Google this myself.

 

And thanks for the correct way to use this.  Is it expected I get the same driver.capabilities[‘browserName’] from both?  (u’chrome’)

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[Ken Kania]

I think http://selenium.googlecode.com/git/docs/api/py/index.html is the best reference.  You should get the browserName as chrome for either.