Does anybody know if Selenium (WebDriver preferably) is able to communicate with and act through a browser that is already running before launching a Selenium Client?
I mean if Selenium is able to comunicate with a browser without using the Selenium Server (with could be an Internet Explorer launched manually for example).
This is a duplicate answer **Reconnect to a driver in python selenium ** This is applicable on all drivers and for java api.
driver = webdriver.Firefox() #python
url = driver.command_executor._url #"http://127.0.0.1:60622/hub"
session_id = driver.session_id #'4e167f26-dc1d-4f51-a207-f761eaf73c31'
driver = webdriver.Remote(command_executor=url,desired_capabilities={})
driver.close() # this prevents the dummy browser
driver.session_id = session_id
And you are connected to your driver again.
driver.get("http://www.mrsmart.in")