Controlling a UC session with phpwebdriver

[torzak]

My goal is to run Undetected-Chromedriver sessions in Python and then take control of the browser with php and phpwebdriver.

I start by running the following code in Python:

import undetected_chromedriver as uc
import time 

options = uc.ChromeOptions()

options.debugger_address = "127.0.0.1:5444"
driver = uc.Chrome(options = options , version_main = 112)  
driver.get( 'https://yahoo.com' ) 

print(driver.session_id)
print('-')
print(driver.options.debugger_address)

time.sleep(400)

Then, I try to establish a connection to the session and defined debugger_address using phpwebdriver. However, it appears that phpwebdriver receive an empty response from http://127.0.0.1:5444/

<?php

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\RemoteWebDriver;

$session = 'd9ac0c63554f887d84d6549ff391dfaa';
$serverUrl = 'http://localhost:5444/json';
$driver = RemoteWebDriver::createBySessionID($session, $serverUrl);

$driver->get('http://google.fr');

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.

[torzak]

I figured out how to do it, I'll post a gist here with the solution.

[talvbansal]

@torzak any update on this - interested!

[torzak]

@talvbansal

You can get a RemoteWebdriver Object connected to an existing session like that :

 $driver = RemoteWebDriver::createBySessionID(
            'xxxxxxxxxx__SESSION_ID__xxxxxxxxx',
            'http://localhost:5444',
            0,
            0,
            true,
            DesiredCapabilities::chrome()
);

Please look at the source code of the RemoteWebDriver::createBySessionID function. It has two "hidden" parameters that are not declared in its signature.

https://github.com/php-webdriver/php-webdriver/blob/25a5655ea2dc63aed314535d637f83f66a984e67/lib/Remote/RemoteWebDriver.php#L155

public static function createBySessionID(
        $session_id,
        $selenium_server_url = 'http://localhost:4444/wd/hub',
        $connection_timeout_in_ms = null,
        $request_timeout_in_ms = null
    ) {
        // BC layer to not break the method signature
        $isW3cCompliant = func_num_args() > 4 ? func_get_arg(4) : true;
        $existingCapabilities = func_num_args() > 5 ? func_get_arg(5) : null;

        $executor = new HttpCommandExecutor($selenium_server_url, null, null);
        if ($connection_timeout_in_ms !== null) {
            $executor->setConnectionTimeout($connection_timeout_in_ms);
        }
        if ($request_timeout_in_ms !== null) {
            $executor->setRequestTimeout($request_timeout_in_ms);
        }

        if (!$isW3cCompliant) {
            $executor->disableW3cCompliance();
        }

        // if capabilities were not provided, attempt to read them from the Selenium Grid API
        if ($existingCapabilities === null) {
            $existingCapabilities = self::readExistingCapabilitiesFromSeleniumGrid($session_id, $executor);
        }

        return new static($executor, $session_id, $existingCapabilities, $isW3cCompliant);
    }

Let me know whether it works for you or not. I can help you if it doesn't.

[mukesh-1977]

@torzak I was looking for this way to connect UC with php webdriver. I am using latest php-webdriver and trying to connect UC. I am able to connect but none event of php-webdriver is working. Like opening URL OR getting active element. Active element throwing error because jsonwire is expecting array and event is sending element as string

Can you please help

[ofirk]

Hey @torzak Hope you can help me :) I'm trying to control a UC session I created via PHP Webdriver with your code like that in python:

from multiprocessing import freeze_support
import undetected_chromedriver as uc
import time
if __name__ == '__main__':
freeze_support()
options = uc.ChromeOptions()
options.debugger_address = "localhost:4444"
options.add_argument('--proxy-server=http://127.0.0.1:8080')
options.add_argument('--user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Firefox/124.0 Safari/537.36')

driver = uc.Chrome(options=options)

print(driver.session_id)
print('-')
print(driver.options.debugger_address)

And PHP code is:

<?php

require_once('vendor/autoload.php');
use Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\RemoteWebDriver;
use Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\DesiredCapabilities;

$driver = RemoteWebDriver::createBySessionID(
        'my_session_id',
        $serverUrl,
        0,
        0,
        true,
        DesiredCapabilities::chrome()
);

print_r ($driver);
$driver->quit();
?>

But I'm getting an empty response error: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Facebook\WebDriver\Exception\Internal\UnexpectedResponseException: JSON decoding of remote response failed. Error code: 4 The response: ''

Can you help me to figure out what's the problem? Thanks a lot!