Capturing browser logs with Selenium WebDriver using Java

Question

Is there a way to capture browser logs while running automated test cases with Selenium? I found an article on how to capture JavaScript errors in Selenium. But that is just

Answer 1

A less elegant solution is taking the log 'manually' from the user data dir:

1. Set the user data dir to a fixed place:

   options = new ChromeOptions();
   capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
   options.addArguments("user-data-dir=/your_path/");
   capabilities.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);
   

2. Get the text from the log file chrome_debug.log located in the path you've entered above.

I use this method since RemoteWebDriver had problems getting the console logs remotely. If you run your test locally that can be easy to retrieve.