YandexWebDriver

Intro

YandexDriver is a WebDriver implementation derived from ChromeDriver and adapted by Yandex that enables programmatic automation of Yandex.Browser. It is a part of the Selenium project.

Binaries

Binaries are available under the releases tab.

Desktop usage

1. Download binary file for your platform.
2. Example code for python on Windows

from selenium import webdriver
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()

binary_yandex_driver_file = 'yandexdriver.exe' # path to YandexDriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome(binary_yandex_driver_file, options=options)
driver.get('https://yandex.ru')
driver.quit()
    

Android usage

1. Download binary file for host.
2. Attach android device with Yandex.Browser to host. Check by running adb devices.
3. Enable USB Web-pages debugging in Settings in Yandex.Browser.
4. Example code for python on Windows host

from selenium import webdriver
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()

binary_yandex_driver_file = 'yandexdriver.exe'     # path to YandexDriver
yandex_browser_package_name = 'com.yandex.browser' # Release version of Yandex.Browser

options.add_experimental_option('androidPackage', yandex_browser_package_name)
driver = webdriver.Chrome(binary_yandex_driver_file, options=options)
driver.get('https://yandex.ru')
driver.quit()