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  // Available variables:
  // - Machine
  // - interpret
  // - assign
  // - send
  // - sendParent
  // - spawn
  // - raise
  // - actions

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# Start Selenium server
start_selenium

# stop Selenium server
stop_selenium

# Status for Selenium server
status_selenium
status_selenium -v

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# @Author Jobinhood

BV_GREEN_TICK='\e[0;32m [✔] \e[0m';
BV_RED_CROSS='\e[0;91m [✗] \e[0m';
BV_YELLOW_DOT='\e[0;33m [.] \e[0m';
BV_YELLOW_DOTS='\e[0;33m ... \e[0m';

# Helper to run sudo commands for us by asking
# sudo password if needed
sudo_needed() {

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# Start Selenium
sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.seleniumhq.selenium.plist

# Stop Selenium
sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.seleniumhq.selenium.plist

# Is it working?
ps -ef | grep selenium | grep java | grep chromedriver | grep -v grep | grep -c selenium
# Will show 0 if selenium is not running, and 1 otherwise

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
  <plist version="1.0">
  <dict>
      <key>Label</key>
      <string>org.seleniumhq.selenium</string>
      <key>UserName</key>
      <string>_selenium</string>
      <key>ProgramArguments</key>
      <array>

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# Create plist file in /Library/LaunchDaemons
vi /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.seleniumhq.selenium.plist

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# Start Selenium
java -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=/usr/local/selenium/drivers/chromedriver -jar /usr/local/selenium/bin/selenium-server-standalone-3.8.1.jar

# Make sure it works
ps -ef | grep selenium | grep -v grep

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# Change group ownership to _selenium
sudo chown -R _selenium:_selenium /usr/local/selenium

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$ sudo dscl
Entering interactive mode… (type “help” for commands)
 > cd /Local/Default
 > ls Groups gid
 
 ...
_selenium 703
_sshd 75
_www 70
...

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# Create group _selenium with gid 703
sudo dscl . -create /Groups/_selenium
sudo dscl . -create /Groups/_selenium PrimaryGroupID 703

# Make sure it now exists
dscacheutil -q group | grep gid | awk ‘{print $2}’ | sort -n | tail -n 1

# Create the deamon user _selenium
sudo dscl . -create /Users/_selenium UniqueID 703
sudo dscl . -create /Users/_selenium PrimaryGroupID 703