Get PID of Browser launched by selenium

Question

I would like to get the PID of the browser launched by selenium. Is there any way to get it done?

Answer 1

In Java, if you use ChromeDriver, you can find the port that the driver will use

port = chromeDriverService.getUrl().getPort();

and then, using the port, you can find the chromedriver process id by running the command

netstat -anp | grep LISTEN | grep [port] (on linux)

or

netstat -aon | findstr LISTENING | findstr [port] (on windows)

You can go further, to find out the chrome process id, by using the chromedriver process id (parent id of the chrome process)

ps -efj | grep google-chrome | grep [chromedriverprocessid] (on linux)

or

wmic process get processid,parentprocessid,executablepath | find \"chrome.exe\" |find \"chromeDriverProcessID\"

the code looks like this:

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.logging.Level;

import org.apache.commons.lang.SystemUtils;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions;
import org.openqa.selenium.logging.LogType;
import org.openqa.selenium.logging.LoggingPreferences;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.CapabilityType;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;

public class WebdriverProcessID
{
  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, InterruptedException
  {
    ChromeDriver driver = null;

    ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
    List listArguments = new ArrayList();

    DesiredCapabilities cap = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
    cap.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);

    LoggingPreferences logPrefs = new LoggingPreferences();
    logPrefs.enable(LogType.PERFORMANCE, Level.ALL);
    cap.setCapability(CapabilityType.LOGGING_PREFS, logPrefs);

    ChromeDriverService chromeDriverService = ChromeDriverService.createDefaultService();
    int port = chromeDriverService.getUrl().getPort();

    driver = new ChromeDriver(chromeDriverService, cap);

    System.out.println("starting chromedriver on port " + port);
    int chromeDriverProcessID = GetChromeDriverProcessID(port);
    System.out.println("detected chromedriver process id " + chromeDriverProcessID);
    System.out.println("detected chrome process id " + GetChromeProcesID(chromeDriverProcessID));

    driver.navigate().to("https://www.test.com/");

    try
    {
      Thread.sleep(100000);
    }
    catch (InterruptedException e)
    {
    }

    try
    {
      driver.close();
    }
    catch (WebDriverException ex)
    {
      ex.printStackTrace();
    }

    try
    {
      driver.quit();
    }
    catch (WebDriverException ex)
    {
      ex.printStackTrace();
    }
  }

  private static int GetChromeDriverProcessID(int aPort) throws IOException, InterruptedException
  {
    String[] commandArray = new String[3];

    if (SystemUtils.IS_OS_LINUX)
    {
      commandArray[0] = "/bin/sh";
      commandArray[1] = "-c";
      commandArray[2] = "netstat -anp | grep LISTEN | grep " + aPort;
    }
    else if (SystemUtils.IS_OS_WINDOWS)
    {
      commandArray[0] = "cmd";
      commandArray[1] = "/c";
      commandArray[2] = "netstat -aon | findstr LISTENING | findstr " + aPort;
    }
    else
    {
      System.out.println("platform not supported");
      System.exit(-1);
    }

    System.out.println("running command " + commandArray[2]);

    Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(commandArray);
    p.waitFor();

    BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));

    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    String line = "";
    while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null)
    {
      sb.append(line + "\n");
    }

    String result = sb.toString().trim();

    System.out.println("parse command response line:");
    System.out.println(result);

    return SystemUtils.IS_OS_LINUX ? ParseChromeDriverLinux(result) : ParseChromeDriverWindows(result);
  }

  private static int GetChromeProcesID(int chromeDriverProcessID) throws IOException, InterruptedException
  {
    String[] commandArray = new String[3];

    if (SystemUtils.IS_OS_LINUX)
    {
      commandArray[0] = "/bin/sh";
      commandArray[1] = "-c";
      commandArray[2] = "ps -efj | grep google-chrome | grep " + chromeDriverProcessID;
    }
    else if (SystemUtils.IS_OS_WINDOWS)
    {
      commandArray[0] = "cmd";
      commandArray[1] = "/c";
      commandArray[2] = "wmic process get processid,parentprocessid,executablepath | find \"chrome.exe\" |find \"" + chromeDriverProcessID + "\"";
    }
    else
    {
      System.out.println("platform not supported");
      System.exit(-1);
    }

    System.out.println("running command " + commandArray[2]);

    Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(commandArray);
    p.waitFor();

    BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));

    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    String line = "";
    while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null)
    {
      if (SystemUtils.IS_OS_LINUX && line.contains("/bin/sh"))
      {
        continue;
      }

      sb.append(line + "\n");
    }

    String result = sb.toString().trim();

    System.out.println("parse command response line:");
    System.out.println(result);

    return SystemUtils.IS_OS_LINUX ? ParseChromeLinux(result) : ParseChromeWindows(result);
  }

  private static int ParseChromeLinux(String result)
  {
    String[] pieces = result.split("\\s+");
    // root 20780 20772 20759 15980  9 11:04 pts/1    00:00:00 /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome.........
    // the second one is the chrome process id
    return Integer.parseInt(pieces[1]);
  }

  private static int ParseChromeWindows(String result)
  {
    String[] pieces = result.split("\\s+");
    // C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe 14304 19960
    return Integer.parseInt(pieces[pieces.length - 1]);
  }

  private static int ParseChromeDriverLinux(String netstatResult)
  {
    String[] pieces = netstatResult.split("\\s+");
    String last = pieces[pieces.length - 1];
    // tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:2391 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 3333/chromedriver
    return Integer.parseInt(last.substring(0, last.indexOf('/')));
  }

  private static int ParseChromeDriverWindows(String netstatResult)
  {
    String[] pieces = netstatResult.split("\\s+");
    // TCP 127.0.0.1:26599 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 22828
    return Integer.parseInt(pieces[pieces.length - 1]);
  }
}

the output will be, on linux:

starting chromedriver on port 17132
running command netstat -anp | grep LISTEN | grep 17132
parse command response line:
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:17132         0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      22197/chromedriver
detected chromedriver process id 22197
running command ps -efj | grep google-chrome | grep 22197
parse command response line:
root     22204 22197 22183 15980 26 11:17 pts/1    00:00:00 /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome ...
detected chrome process id 22204

and on windows:

starting chromedriver on port 34231
running command netstat -aon | findstr LISTENING | findstr 34231
parse command response line:
TCP    127.0.0.1:34231        0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING       10692
detected chromedriver process id 10692
running command wmic process get "processid,parentprocessid,executablepath" | findstr "chrome.exe" | findstr "10692"
parse command response line:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe  10692 12264
detected chrome process id 12264