Anyway to record videos for browsers sessions launched via "driver = Driver()" class?

[iamumairayub]

I am on Ubuntu VPS and following piece of code works perfectly.
I run my code with python myfile.py command.
What I want is to record and save video on my same server.

with Display(visible=0, size=(1440, 1880)):

    driver = Driver(
        uc=True, 
        browser='chrome',
        headless2=True,
    )

    driver.get('https://www.whatismybrowser.com/')
    driver.quit()

[mdmintz]

For video recording, see: #642 (comment):

Use an existing tool with SeleniumBase such as Zalenium for recording videos:
https://opensource.zalando.com/zalenium/
It works like a Selenium Grid.
See https://seleniumbase.io/seleniumbase/utilities/selenium_grid/ReadMe/ for instructions on using SeleniumBase to connect to a Selenium Grid.

However, that requires the use of a SeleniumBase format (SB() or BaseCase) since the Driver() format doesn't have the necessary code. Also, UC Mode isn't supported for Selenium Grid because SeleniumBase needs direct access to a local driver for that to work. As mentioned in #2278 (comment):

UC Mode doesn't support remote browsers. The driver and browser must both be on a local machine so that UC Mode can make modifications to the driver (transforming chromedriver into uc_driver), as well as being able to spin up Chrome from the backend so that it can be directly connected, disconnected, and reconnected again as needed.

[iamumairayub]

I read your reply and checked above links and found out that its only possible to record video for remote browsers?

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Lets forget about Driver() and Remote Browsers for a moment.

Let say we have this code

with SB(uc=True) as sb:
    sb.open("https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=test&crid=16478HWXKS706&sprefix=%2Caps%2C571&ref=nb_sb_noss")
    sb.slow_scroll_to_element('a.s-pagination-item.s-pagination-next', by="css selector")

uc=True or uc=False, is it possible to record this session?

there is activate_recorder() but its not for video recording.

[mdmintz]

You can record the session by spinning up a Selenium Grid first. There are two options:

• (https://opensource.zalando.com/zalenium/ ---- https://github.com/zalando/zalenium)
• https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium?tab=readme-ov-file#video-recording

Each of those has instructions for video recording.

To connect to a grid with seleniumbase, set the server and port parameters. Eg:

with SB(server="127.0.0.1", port="4444") as sb:
    sb.open("URL")
    # Do more things

Follow the instructions from the external sites for configuring a Selenium Grid for recording video.

(Note that Selenium Grid Mode doesn't support UC Mode.)

[iamumairayub]

We are not using remote selenium. We are using local selenium with Display on our Ubuntu VPS.
Is it possible to record videos of locally running sessions? (not remote sessions)

[mdmintz]

Selenium Grid can be run locally by setting the server to "127.0.0.1".
It's the only way I know to automatically record videos during test runs.

[iamumairayub]

Thanks for your replies Minz.

But we dont want to run SeleniumGrid because that does not let us use undetected_chromedriver.

Regarding

Selenium Grid can be run locally by setting the server to "127.0.0.1".

I would like to bring this to you that Selenoid enables you to record videos of your Remote sessions by just passing enableVideo: true as option

options.set_capability("selenoid:options", {"enableVideo": True})

https://aerokube.com/selenoid/latest/#_video_recording_enablevideo_videoname_videoscreensize_videoframerate_videocodec

I dont expect to your further replies on this thread. Thanks again Minz.