Disable "Chrome is being controlled by automated test software" info bar

[xceejay]

I realized that options like "--disable-infobars" are deprecated and therefore does not hide the infobar, there's a work around for disabling the infobar in chrome's experimental options, which can be referenced here https://stackoverflow.com/a/43145088 . It seems the experimental feature is not available in golangs selenium port

[x-Xymos]

This can be achieved with the following capability switch

caps = selenium.Capabilities{"browserName": "chrome",
    "chromeOptions": map[string]interface{}{ 
        "excludeSwitches": [1]string{"enable-automation"}, 
    }, 
} 

[xceejay]

thank you, that worked

[akingscote]

hmm it dosent seem to work if there are chrome capabilities as well :/

[x-Xymos]

@akingscote what do you mean by that, can you post a code example

[akingscote]

Sure, so the following works as expected:

import (
	"fmt"
	"os"
	"github.com/tebeka/selenium"
)
...
	caps := selenium.Capabilities{
		"browserName": "chrome",
		"chromeOptions": map[string]interface{}{ 
			"excludeSwitches": [1]string{"enable-automation"}, 
		},
	}

I dont have that automation banner, but unfortunately the window is quite small. I'd like it to be maximised.

In extending functionality with chrome capabilities, it seems to ignore the selenium capabilities.

import (
	"fmt"
	"os"
	"github.com/tebeka/selenium"
	"github.com/tebeka/selenium/chrome"
)
...
	caps := selenium.Capabilities{
		"browserName": "chrome",
		"chromeOptions": map[string]interface{}{ 
			"excludeSwitches": [1]string{"enable-automation"}, 
		},
	}
	
	chromeCaps := chrome.Capabilities{
		Path: "",
		Args: []string{
			"--headless",
			"--start-maximized",
			"--window-size=1200x600",
			"--no-sandbox",
			"--user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.77 Safari/537.36",
			"--disable-gpu",
			"--disable-impl-side-painting",
			"--disable-gpu-sandbox",
			"--disable-accelerated-2d-canvas",
			"--disable-accelerated-jpeg-decoding",
			"--test-type=ui",
		},
	}
	caps.AddChrome(chromeCaps)

It seems i can use one or the other, but not both. Unless im missing something...

[x-Xymos]

@akingscote you can add args in the following way ( I haven't included them all from your example )

import (
    "fmt"
    "os"
    "github.com/tebeka/selenium"
)
...
    caps := selenium.Capabilities{
        "browserName": "chrome",
        "chromeOptions": map[string]interface{}{ 
            "excludeSwitches": [1]string{"enable-automation"}, 
             "args":            []string{"--headless", "--start-maximized", "--no-sandbox"},
            },
    }

[akingscote]

fantastic thats got it thank you very much. My example was pretty bad, because --headless contradicts --start-maximized, but adding the args directly to the chromeOptions instead of separately has done the job. Thanks for your help!