macaca-electron

macaca electron driver

Contributors

xudafeng	paradite	meowtec	ziczhu	xianxiaow	cyjake
coffeedeveloper	jacksonlai	sriting

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Installment

$ npm i macaca-electron -g

Release Plan

Simply put, Chromium doesn't stop shipping so Electron is not going to slow down either, so Macaca is not stop...

Starting with Electron version 7, Macaca will always upgrade with the Electron's main version.

• 12-week-cadence
• releases/stable

Environment Variable

set MACACA_ELECTRON_DEVTOOLS=1 to open the devtools.

Notice

window.alert

Macaca disables window.alert, window.prompt, window.confirm from popping up by default, and you can override by execute.

Standalone usage

const fs = require('fs');
const path = require('path');
const Electron = require('macaca-electron');

const electron = new Electron();

/**
  default options
  {
    show: true,
    alwaysOnTop: false,
    x: 0,
    y: 0,
    width: 800,
    height: 600,
    userAgent: 'userAgent string',
    webPreferences: {
      nodeIntegration: false
    }
  }
*/
const sleep = ms => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms));

(async () => {
  await electron.startDevice({
    show: false // in silence
  });
  await electron.maximize();
  await electron.setWindowSize(null, 500, 500);
  await electron.get('https://www.baidu.com');
  await sleep(3000);
  const imgData = await electron.getScreenshot();
  const img = Buffer.from(imgData, 'base64');
  const p = path.join('screenshot.png');
  fs.writeFileSync(p, img.toString('binary'), 'binary');
  console.log(`screenshot: ${p}`);

  await electron.stopDevice();
})();

• sample macaca-electron-screenshot
• More API

License

The MIT License (MIT)