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How to change selenium user agent in selenium-webdriver nodejs land?

How to change selenium user agent in selenium-webdriver nodejs land?

Problem

I'm in javascript + mocha + node land.

I have tried setting Useragent and 'user-agent' as keys on capabilities:

var webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver');
var ua = 'Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0 like Mac OS X)';

var driver = new webdriver.Builder().
     ...
     withCapabilities({ 'browserName': 'firefox',
        userAgent: ua,
        'user-agent': ua,
    }).
    build();

There is this answer which says to use a firefox profile, but that's not exposed. There is no driver.FirefoxProfile nor one exposed globally nor webdriver.FirefoxProfile nor driver.profiles etc.

I have tried Googling and looking the source and the documentation but there is nothing on this.

Problem courtesy of: Andy Ray

Solution

You cannot do it with Firefox, but you can do it with Chrome. It's undocumented:

var chrome = require('selenium-webdriver/chrome');

var opts = new chrome.Options();
opts.addArguments(['user-agent="YOUR_USER_AGENT"']);

var driver = new webdriver.Builder().
    withCapabilities(opts.toCapabilities()).
    build();
Solution courtesy of: Andy Ray

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