How to set offline mode for chrome while running robotframework tests

[Mamad]

Is it possible with robotframework seleniumLibrary to set offline mode for chrome.

[Wolfe1 (Brandon Wolfe)]

Bumping this as a product of ours is also looking into this, Anyone have any idea?

[koskov (Kos K)]

@Mamad @Wolfe1 hi guys! I know it’s quite a long period of time passed, but can you please advise - have you had a chance to fix/avoid you problem?

[damies13 (Dave)]

I don’t have the answer, but maybe I can give some information that will help someone figure out the answer.

Enabling offline mode (or low bandwidth modes) is done through DevTools in chrome:

So I then searched if DevTools could be manipulated with Selenium and found this:

How to click on devtools console tab with Selenium and python

It talks about running javascript commands in the console, so I’m hoping something similar could be triggered with Execute Javascript?

That’s as far as I got, but hopefully that helps

Dave.

[CharlieScene (Charlie)]

Hi Dave,

Here’s an answer on another thread I just replied:

Robot framework - chromedriver - set throtlling

Hi, If you’re mentioning modify DevTools parameters as if you were in inspector, you can use execute_cdp_cmd (ChromeDevToolsProtocol) to set and modify options. You have the commands here: And here is an example I use to set my browser offline: Offline Simulation ${seleniumlib} Get Library Instance SeleniumLibrary VAR ${webdriver} ${seleniumlib.driver} # Network tracking activation ${network_init} Create Dictionary Call Method ${webdriver} execute_…

Regards
Charlie

[Wolfe1 (Brandon Wolfe)]

Excellent, forgot what I intended to use this for originally when I posted back in 2022 but now at least there is a solution out there to help anyone else.