Web gui for robot framework

Robot Framework
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Good morning
I’m wondering if a web gui for robot framework exists.
Thanks a lot
Angelo

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Hi Angelo,

Did you mean a web based app for constructing robot framework files or a robot framework library for automating websites?

  • web based app for constructing robot framework files, I’m not aware of any, really all you need is a text editor, notepad or vi is enough, but one with syntax highlighting is better. Also if this is what your after you might want to look at RIDE it’s python based GUI not web based, but if you are using Robot Framework you’ll have python installed already so it should be pretty easy to get RIDE running.

  • robot framework library for automating websites, yes there are several options

Dave.

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Hi,
i was searching a solution like RIDE, but web based
Thanks for your help
Angelo

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Hi Angelo,

About a year ago I started looking into creating a web based app for building robot framework scripts, there were a few problems that were going to be tricky to solve

  1. how to deal with the keywords from all the possible libraries and their variations, what about custom user libraries
  2. how to run/debug the robot script from a web page? web pages can’t just write files to your file system or just launch local executable (if they could web pages could just infect your computer with viruses, so it’s for a good reason). Without this feature it would be not too hard to build but I didn’t think a GUI for developing robot scripts would be that useful if it couldn’t run them or even open/save robot scripts directly to/from the file system.

So those reasons it would be a lot of effort and unless someone wanted to fund the development I didn’t really want to take it on (I have enough open source projects I’ve created and work on un-funded already).

Unfortunately too many of what I would consider required functionality for this type of app is just not possible through a web browser. It might be possible with Electron but then it wouldn’t really be a web based app.

Sorry to sound like a naysayer on this but while I think it would be a useful type of app, I just can’t see it happening or being that useful if it was built.

Dave.

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@pekkaklarck used a webui in some presentation, but I don’t remember where it was.

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