Firefox and Chrome Driver Options

Arguments and preferences to pass to chrome driver

chrome_options(
  cargs = c("--disable-gpu", "--window-size=1280,800"),
  headless = TRUE,
  ...,
  download_path = tempdir()
)

firefox_options(
  cargs = c("--width=1280", "--height=800", "--memory 1024mb"),
  headless = TRUE,
  ...,
  download_path = tempdir()
)

Arguments

cargs	character arguments to pass to driver.
headless	logical, is the driver run in headless state. Default: TRUE
...	additional preferences to add to driver.
download_path	character, Path to save files to. Default: tempdir()

Value

list

Details

By default the preferences are set to allow for local dowloading to a user defined path.

• chrome:

  • "profile.default_content_settings.popups" = 0L

  • download.prompt_for_download" = FALSE

  • download.directory_upgrade" = TRUE

  • safebrowsing.enabled" = TRUE

  • download.default_directory" = download_path

• firefox:

  • 'browser.download.folderList' = 2

  • 'browser.download.lastDir' = download_path

  • 'browser.download.dir' = download_path

See also

Other driver: chrome_version(), firefox_driver(), set_chrome_driver(), set_firefox_driver(), set_timeout()

Other driver: chrome_version(), firefox_driver(), set_chrome_driver(), set_firefox_driver(), set_timeout()

Examples

chrome_options()
#> $args
#> [1] "--headless"             "--disable-gpu"          "--window-size=1280,800"
#> 
#> $prefs
#> $prefs$profile.default_content_settings.popups
#> [1] 0
#> 
#> $prefs$download.prompt_for_download
#> [1] FALSE
#> 
#> $prefs$download.directory_upgrade
#> [1] TRUE
#> 
#> $prefs$safebrowsing.enabled
#> [1] TRUE
#> 
#> $prefs$download.default_directory
#> [1] "/var/folders/24/8k48jl6d249_n_qfxwsl6xvm0000gn/T//RtmpkGRxyW"
#> 
#> 
firefox_options()
#> $args
#> [1] "--headless"      "--width=1280"    "--height=800"    "--memory 1024mb"
#> 
#> $prefs
#> $prefs$browser.download.folderList
#> [1] 2
#> 
#> $prefs$browser.download.lastDir
#> [1] "/var/folders/24/8k48jl6d249_n_qfxwsl6xvm0000gn/T//RtmpkGRxyW"
#> 
#> $prefs$browser.download.dir
#> [1] "/var/folders/24/8k48jl6d249_n_qfxwsl6xvm0000gn/T//RtmpkGRxyW"
#> 
#>