selenium webdriver - How to use OperaChromiumDriver for opera version >12.X

Question

I understand that to work on opera versions > 12.X, Operachromiumdriver has been developed. At the same time I couldn't get this to work. I downloaded the windows version of operachromiumdriver.exe from https://github.com/operasoftware/operachromiumdriver/releases but to no avail. Can someone help me with this . Please tell me if my understanding is right.

Thanks

Answer 1

I have found the solution running opera 25+ using OperaChromiumDriver.exe.

1. Install Opera 25+ (I installed Opera 25)
2. Download OperaChromiumDriver https://github.com/operasoftware/operachromiumdriver/releases
3. Extract the zip file to a location on the computer

4. Use the following code to open Opera

   System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:/Users/user/Downloads/operadriver-0.1.0-win32/operadriver-0.1.0-win32.exe");
   WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
   driver.get("https://www.google.com");
   driver.findElement(By.name("q")).sendKeys("Selenium");
   

I have used new ChromeDriver(). This will start Opera since we are using OperaChromiumDriver. I think this is because the new Opera is based on Chromium and OperaChromiumDriver is a WebDriver implementation derived from ChromeDriver [See https://github.com/operasoftware/operachromiumdriver].

Hope this helps you.