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I wondered if anyone had successfully managed, or knew how to automate the Safari web browser on the Windows platform.

Ideally I would like to automate Safari in a similar way to using mshtml for Internet Explorer. Failing that a way to inject JavaScript into the running process would also be fine. I've used the JavaScript injection method to automate Firefox via the jssh plug-in.

I'm looking to automate the browser using .Net to enhance an existing automation framework WatiN

Edit: Whilst I think selenium might be a great choice for automating Safari in certain scenarios, I would like to use a solution that does not require installing software on the server i.e. Selenium Core or an intermediate proxy server in the case of Selenium Remote Control.

Update: 23-03-2009: Whilst I've not yet found a way to automate Safari, I have found a way to automate Webkit inside of Chrome. If you run Chrome using the --remote-shell-port=9999 command line switches (ref: http://www.ericdlarson.com/misc/chrome_command_line_flags.html) you can send javascript to the browser.

Once connected to the remote debug seesion

  • Send debug() to attach to the current tab
  • Send any javascript command using print, i.e. print document.window.location.href

We've used this method to add Chrome support to WatiN

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  • If you get automated Safari on Windows working, I would be very interested in that. Commented Oct 14, 2008 at 15:01
  • Did you have any luck with this? Commented Oct 9, 2009 at 21:40
  • Only via Chrome and webkit, as mentioned above. However it's pretty early on in development. Take a look at the latest WatiN sources for an idea. Commented Oct 10, 2009 at 11:33
  • I am thinking about adding support for Safari on Windows for Watir. We already have Chrome support, so that is not so interesting to me. Commented Oct 12, 2009 at 8:06

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you might check my post here where I am using the method described above to automate Chrome in C#

http://markcz.wordpress.com/2012/02/18/automating-chrome-browser-from-csharp/

Martin

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I'm not sure if this helps, but the guys at ArtOfTest have added Safari support to their .Net based automation framework WebAii. Maybe you could figure out what they are doing.

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I asked them and got automated reply that I will get an answer in 24 hours, but a few day later still nothing.
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Selenium has been very useful for me for compatibility testing.

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WatiN here http://watinandmore.blogspot.com/2010/01/browserattachto-and-iattachto.html lets you automate IE and FF. It is open source, so you can have a look on how they do it.

Maybe you can adapt it to your needs?

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