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Sami Hijazi
4,666 Pointsvisual studio not inputting URL into browser after driver.get(URL) because 'URL must be a string'
I have input the code, following along the video, and i'm up to the point of 6:45 where the teacher types in "set URL=port..... node index.js" and when I do the same I get an new open chrome browser (which is good) but the URL isn't set and the error I get is listed below. While playing around to get this to work, I don't get the "URL must be a string" error but I do get a "[Error] Error: ECONNREFUSED connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:51539". I am permanently stuck, please send help!
"WebDriverError: unknown error: 'url' must be a string"
This is the code that i'm using:
require('chromedriver'); const selenium = require('selenium-webdriver'); const By = selenium.By;
const driver = new selenium.Builder() .forBrowser("chrome") .build();
driver.get(URL);
const locators = { inviteeForm: By.id("registrar"), inviteeNameField: By.name("name") };
function addInvitee(name) {
driver.findElement(locators.inviteeNameField)
.sendKeys(name);
driver.findElement(locators.inviteeForm).submit();
}
addInvitee("Kevin Yu"); addInvitee("Joe Schmo");
This is the error:
[ERROR] node : C:\users\kevin.yu\selenium-basics\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\promise.js:2626 [ERROR] AT line:1 char:1 [ERROR] + node index.js [ERROR] + ~~~~~~~~~~~ [ERROR] +Category Info :Not Specified: (C:\users\kevin...promise.js:2626:String) [], RemoteException [ERROR] + FullyQualifiedErrorId: Native Command Error [ERROR] [ERROR] throw error; [ERROR] ^ [ERROR] [ERROR] WebdriverError: uknown error: 'url' must be a string [ERROR] (Session info: chrome=68.0.3440.106 [ERROR] (Driver info: chromedriver=2.28.455520 (cc17746adff54984afff480136733114c6v3704b), platform=Windows NT 10.0.17134 x64_64) [ERROR] at Object.checkLegacyResponse (C:\Users\kevin.yu\selenium-basics\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\error.js:546:15) [ERROR] at parseHttpResponse (C:\users\kevin.yu...…) [ERROR] doSend.then.response (C:\users\kevin.yu.....) [ERROR] at process.)_tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:68:7) [ERROR] From: Task: WebDriver.navigate().to(undefined)
3 Answers
Sami Hijazi
4,666 Pointsputting in the Terminal Output: Set URL=port-80-6p76k7hj7t.treehouse-app.com node index.js --- gives me a "A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument 'index.js' error
Ashutosh Rai
530 PointsI think the courses should be updated regularly.
Sarper Temel
430 PointsHello, unfortunately this method is not working still,
- driver.get(URL);
- ~~~
- CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (URL:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
- FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
thats the error
Sami Hijazi
4,666 PointsFormat is bad, so I can email anyone this issue in a better format if that helps, thanks in advance.
Sami Hijazi
4,666 PointsPosted on StackOverflow where the format is better:
Ashutosh Rai
530 PointsAshutosh Rai
530 PointsWorking code: const selenium = require("selenium-webdriver");
const By = selenium.By;
const chrome = require("chromedriver");
const URL = "https://port-80-dl2wbpmuap.treehouse-app.com/";
const driver = new selenium.Builder().forBrowser("chrome").build();
driver.get(URL);