Chrome Remote Interface not working with Selenium/ChromeDriver

[furkhan324]

Hey there. I am having some trouble using Chrome Remote Interface on top of Chromedriver. I use Chromedriver to start chrome, find the remote-debugging-port and then connect Chrome Remote Interface to this port. Although the connection is successful, subsequent commands do not (i.e client.Page.navigate()) produce any effect. I understand Chrome can be started with chrome-launcher but I would like to use Webdriver to simulate certain workflows

Here is a test script to reproduce the issue(Given chromedriver is installed):

//test.js
var webdriver = require("selenium-webdriver");
var chrome = require("selenium-webdriver/chrome");
var cdp = require("chrome-remote-interface");

async function test(){
  var options = new chrome.Options();

 options.addArguments(["--detach=true"]);

  //START DRIVER
  var driver = new webdriver.Builder().
  withCapabilities(options.toCapabilities()).build();

  //FIND REMOTE DEBUGGING PORT
  await driver.get("chrome://version");
  let element = await driver.findElement(webdriver.By.id('command_line'));
  let text = await element.getText();
  console.log('Chrome command line flags:');
  console.log(text);

  var splitStr=text.split(" ");
  let port = 0;
  splitStr.filter(function(word,index){
    if(word.match(/--remote-debugging-port=*/)){
      console.log(word);
      port = Number(word.split('=')[1]);

    }else{
    }
  });

  console.log(typeof port)
  console.log('Port:');
  console.log(port);

  //START CHROME REMOTE INTERFACE
  cdp({
    port:port
  }, function(chrome){
    console.log(chrome);
    chrome.Page.enable();
    chrome.Page.navigate({'url': 'https://yahoo.com'}) //NOT WORKING
  }).on('error', function (e) {
    console.error('Cannot connect to Chrome', e);
  });

}

test();

SELENIUM_BROWSER=chrome node test.js

This script works when Chrome is started via chrome-launcher, so my guess is starting Chrome via chromedriver may have options enabled that impede Chrome Remote interface to work on top of it.

[cyrus-and]

See cyrus-and/chrome-remote-interface#265.