How do I use the HTMLUnit driver with Selenium from Python?

Question

How do I tell Selenium to use HTMLUnit?

I\'m running selenium-server-standalone-2.0b1.jar as a Selenium server in the background, and the latest Python bindings inst

Answer 1

As of the 2.0b3 release of the python client you can create an HTMLUnit webdriver via a remote connection like so:

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Remote(
  desired_capabilities=webdriver.DesiredCapabilities.HTMLUNIT)
driver.get('http://www.google.com')

You can also use the HTMLUNITWITHJS capability item for a browser with Javascript support.

Note that you need to run the Selenium Java server for this to work, since HTMLUnit is implemented on the Java side.