Capybara

You can now use the Capybara library with browserless! Similar to most libraries based on the webdriver protocol, you simply need to tell Capybara where to talk with Chrome. This is a pretty quick change to make:

require 'capybara'
require 'selenium-webdriver'

# Done for demo purposes here!
Capybara.server = :puma, { Silent: true }

Capybara.register_driver :remote_chrome do |app|
  Capybara::Selenium::Driver.new(app,
    :browser              => :remote,
    :url                  => 'https://YOUR-API-KEY@chrome.browserless.io/webdriver',
    :options => Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Capabilities.chrome("goog:chromeOptions" => {
      "args" => [
        "--headless",
        "--no-sandbox"
      ]
    }),
  )
end

Capybara.default_driver = :remote_chrome

browser = Capybara.current_session
browser.visit 'https://browserless.io/'
puts browser.html
browser.driver.quit

This will simply log out the HTML from the Example demo, however it'll give you a great starting place for using Capybara alongside browserless.

Be sure to let us know if you have questions or issues.

Pausing for the debugger

You can use the built-in desired_capabilities parameter in Selenium's API to tell browserless to pause your script on startup, allowing you to visit the account page and click the Session link to view it as it runs. This is helpful if your script executes extremely quickly, making debugging harder to do.

# Tell browserless to pause on startup:
Capybara.register_driver :remote_chrome do |app|
  Capybara::Selenium::Driver.new(app, {
    :browser              => :remote,
    :url                  => 'https://YOUR-API-KEY@chrome.browserless.io/webdriver',
    :desired_capabilities => Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Capabilities.chrome(
      "goog:chromeOptions" => { "args" => [ "--headless", "--no-sandbox" ] },
      # PAUSE!
      "browserless.pause": true
    ),
  })
end

Specifying a different timeout

You can also override the global timeout for sessions by specifying a browserless.timeout capability as well:

# Set timeout to 30 seconds
Capybara.register_driver :remote_chrome do |app|
  Capybara::Selenium::Driver.new(app, {
    :browser              => :remote,
    :url                  => 'https://YOUR-API-KEY@chrome.browserless.io/webdriver',
    :desired_capabilities => Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Capabilities.chrome(
      "goog:chromeOptions" => { "args" => [ "--headless", "--no-sandbox" ] },
      # 30 seconds in milliseconds
      "browserless.timeout": 30000
    ),
  })
end