Selenium lacks operations for the Opera browser

[chiangbar]

Description

How to use Opera browser automation in Python's Selenium?

Have you considered any alternatives or workarounds?

No response

[selenium-ci]

@chiangbar, thank you for creating this issue. We will troubleshoot it as soon as we can.

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[cgoldberg]

We no longer support Opera. Due to its low marketshare, I don't think we have any plans to support Opera directly like we do for other Chromium browsers like Edge.

However, since it is Chromium-based, you can probably get it working. Opera maintains a webdriver that you can find here: https://github.com/operasoftware/operachromiumdriver

They have some code examples in that repo for Python, but they might be outdated. It theoretically should work with any language bindings, but you are on your own for any issues you run into :)

The basic gist of how to use it is: create a Remote webdriver instance using the Chrome Options and Chrome Service classes, with the driver binary location specified as the Opera driver you download.

[nvborisenko]

If Opera is spec adaptive, why not to ask they to join into Selenium world?

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[diemol]

I did a long time ago. We are still waiting for a reply operasoftware/operachromiumdriver#88