puppeteer/website/versioned_docs/version-22.6.5/webdriver-bidi.md

Experimental WebDriver BiDi support

WebDriver BiDi is a new cross-browser automation protocol currently under development, aiming to combine the best of both WebDriver “Classic” and CDP. WebDriver BiDi promises bi-directional communication, making it fast by default, and it comes packed with low-level control.

See also:

• WebDriver BiDi - The future of cross-browser automation
• WebDriver BiDi: 2023 status update

Automate with Chrome and Firefox

Puppeteer supports WebDriver BiDi automation with Chrome and Firefox.

Firefox integration is nearing feature parity with its previous CDP-based approach. Learn more in the dedicated announcement.

Measuring progress

To gauge the capabilities of WebDriver BiDi, we utilized the comprehensive Puppeteer test suite

• For Firefox, there are currently under 60 failing tests compared to the CDP implementation, while over 82 new tests successfully utilize WebDriver BiDi, demonstrating its growing potential.
• For Chrome, around 68% of tests pass with WebDriver BiDi, indicating room for improvement compared to the CDP-based approach.

Get started

Below is an example of launching Firefox or Chrome with WebDriver BiDi:

import puppeteer from 'puppeteer';

const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
  product: 'firefox', // or 'chrome'
  protocol: 'webDriverBiDi',
});
const page = await browser.newPage();
...
await browser.close();

This is an exciting step towards a more unified and efficient cross-browser automation experience. We encourage you to explore WebDriver BiDi with Puppeteer and join us in shaping the future of browser automation.

Puppeteer features supported over WebDriver BiDi

• Browser and page automation

  • Browser.close
  • Frame.goto() (except referer and referrerPolicy)
  • Page.bringToFront
  • Page.goBack()
  • Page.goForward()
  • Page.goto (except referer and referrerPolicy)
  • Page.reload (except for ignoreCache parameter)
  • Page.setViewport (width, height, deviceScaleFactor only)
  • Puppeteer.launch

• Script evaluation:

  • JSHandle.evaluate
  • JSHandle.evaluateHandle
  • Page.evaluate
  • Page.exposeFunction

• Selectors and locators except for ARIA:

  • Page.$ (ARIA selectors supported in Chrome)
  • Page.$$ (ARIA selectors supported in Chrome)
  • Page.$$eval (ARIA selectors supported in Chrome)
  • Page.$eval (ARIA selectors supported in Chrome)
  • Page.waitForSelector (ARIA selectors supported in Chrome)

• Input

  • ElementHandle.uploadFile
  • ElementHandle.click
  • Keyboard.down
  • Keyboard.press
  • Keyboard.sendCharacter
  • Keyboard.type
  • Keyboard.up
  • Mouse events (except for dedicated drag'n'drop API methods)
  • Page.tap
  • TouchScreen.*

• JavaScript dialog interception

  • page.on('dialog')
  • Dialog.*

• Screenshots (not all parameters are supported)

  • Page.screenshot (supported parameters clip, encoding, fullPage)

• PDF generation (not all parameters are supported)

  • Page.pdf (only format, height, landscape, margin, pageRanges, printBackground, scale, width are supported)
  • Page.createPDFStream (only format, height, landscape, margin, pageRanges, printBackground, scale, width are supported)

• Permissions (Supported in Chrome only)

  • BrowserContext.clearPermissionOverrides()
  • BrowserContext.overridePermissions()

Puppeteer features not yet supported over WebDriver BiDi

• Request interception

  • HTTPRequest.abort()
  • HTTPRequest.abortErrorReason()
  • HTTPRequest.client()
  • HTTPRequest.continue()
  • HTTPRequest.continueRequestOverrides()
  • HTTPRequest.failure()
  • HTTPRequest.finalizeInterceptions()
  • HTTPRequest.interceptResolutionState()
  • HTTPRequest.isInterceptResolutionHandled()
  • HTTPRequest.respond()
  • HTTPRequest.responseForRequest()
  • Page.setRequestInterception()

• Various emulations (most are supported with Chrome)

  • Page.emulate() (supported only in Chrome)
  • Page.emulateCPUThrottling() (supported only in Chrome)
  • Page.emulateIdleState() (supported only in Chrome)
  • Page.emulateMediaFeatures() (supported only in Chrome)
  • Page.emulateMediaType() (supported only in Chrome)
  • Page.emulateTimezone() (supported only in Chrome)
  • Page.emulateVisionDeficiency() (supported only in Chrome)
  • Page.setBypassCSP() (supported only in Chrome)
  • Page.setCacheEnabled() (supported only in Chrome)
  • Page.setGeolocation() (supported only in Chrome)
  • Page.setJavaScriptEnabled() (supported only in Chrome)

• CDP-specific features

  • Page.createCDPSession() (supported only in Chrome)

• Tracing (supported only in Chrome)

• Coverage (supported only in Chrome)

• Accessibility (supported only in Chrome)

• Other methods:

  • Browser.userAgent()
  • Frame.isOOPFrame()
  • Frame.waitForDevicePrompt()
  • HTTPResponse.buffer()
  • HTTPResponse.fromServiceWorker()
  • HTTPResponse.securityDetails()
  • Input.drag()
  • Input.dragAndDrop()
  • Input.dragOver()
  • Input.drop()
  • Page.authenticate()
  • Page.cookies()
  • Page.deleteCookie()
  • Page.emulateNetworkConditions()
  • Page.isDragInterceptionEnabled()
  • Page.isJavaScriptEnabled() (supported only in Chrome)
  • Page.isServiceWorkerBypassed()
  • Page.metrics()
  • Page.queryObjects() (supported only in Chrome)
  • Page.screencast() (supported only in Chrome)
  • Page.setBypassServiceWorker()
  • Page.setCookie()
  • Page.setDragInterception()
  • Page.setExtraHTTPHeaders()
  • Page.setOfflineMode()
  • Page.setUserAgent()
  • Page.waitForDevicePrompt()
  • Page.waitForFileChooser()
  • Page.workers()
  • PageEvent.popup
  • PageEvent.WorkerCreated
  • PageEvent.WorkerDestroyed
  • Target.opener()