Selenium + Go - how to? - go

Question

I'm starting to take a look on Selenium with Go language, but I didn't find too much info.
I'm using github.com/tebeka/selenium.
In Python, I just install (pip install selenium) and code like this to open a browser:
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'./chromedriver.exe')
driver.get('http://www.hp.com')
How do I do the same in go?
I'm trying this, but it does not open the browser like Python does:
package main
import (
"fmt"
"github.com/tebeka/selenium"
)
func main() {
selenium.ChromeDriver("./chromedriver.exe")
caps := selenium.Capabilities{"browserName": "chrome"}
selenium.NewRemote(caps, fmt.Sprintf("http://www.google.com", 80))
}
Is there a simple way in go to just open the browser in my machine like that 3 Python lines do?
Thanks!

Answer 1

In python selenium, it automatically starts the browser. But Golang doesn't. You have to run the browser (service) explicitly. This is a simple example of using Chromedriver with Golang.
package main
import (
"github.com/tebeka/selenium"
"github.com/tebeka/selenium/chrome"
)
func main() error {
// Run Chrome browser
service, err := selenium.NewChromeDriverService("./chromedriver", 4444)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
defer service.Stop()
caps := selenium.Capabilities{}
caps.AddChrome(chrome.Capabilities{Args: []string{
"window-size=1920x1080",
"--no-sandbox",
"--disable-dev-shm-usage",
"disable-gpu",
// "--headless", // comment out this line to see the browser
}})
driver, err := selenium.NewRemote(caps, "")
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
driver.Get("https://www.google.com")
}