ChromeDriver on Travis CI

.travis.linux.yml

os: linux
node_js: '12'
sudo: required
env: DISPLAY=':99.0'
dist: trusty
addons:
  apt:
    update: true
    sources:
      - google-chrome
    packages:
      - dpkg
      - google-chrome-stable
 
before_script:
  - sh -e /etc/init.d/xvfb start

.travis.macos.yml

os: osx
node_js: '12'
sudo: required
env: HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS='--appdir=/Applications'
 
before_install:
  - brew update > /dev/null
  - brew cask install google-chrome

.travis.yml

language: node_js

matrix:
  include:
    - os: linux
      node_js: '12'
      sudo: required
      env: DISPLAY=':99.0'
      dist: trusty
      addons:
        apt:
          update: true
          sources:
            - google-chrome
          packages:
            - dpkg
            - google-chrome-stable
    - os: osx
      node_js: '12'
      sudo: required
      env: HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS='--appdir=/Applications'

before_install:
  - |
    if [ "$TRAVIS_OS_NAME" = "osx" ]; then
      brew update > /dev/null
      brew cask install google-chrome
    fi

install:
  - npm install

before_script:
  - |
    if [ "$TRAVIS_OS_NAME" = "linux" ]; then
      sh -e /etc/init.d/xvfb start
    fi

script:
  - npm test

package.json

{
  "devDependencies": {
    "chromedriver": "^76.0.1",
    "selenium-webdriver": "^4.0.0-alpha.5"
  }
}

test.js

const webdriver = require("selenium-webdriver");
const chrome = require("selenium-webdriver/chrome");
const chromedriver = require("chromedriver");

const until = webdriver.until;
const By = webdriver.By;

const options = new chrome.Options();
options.addArguments("no-sandbox");

const builder = new webdriver.Builder();
builder.forBrowser("chrome");
builder.setChromeOptions(options);

const driver = builder.build();
(async () => {
    await driver.manage().setTimeouts({ implicit: 30000 });
    await driver.get("https://tweetdeck.twitter.com");
    await driver.wait(until.titleIs("TweetDeck"));
    const login = await driver.findElement(By.css("section.form-login a.Button"));
    await login.click();
})();

I received the following dpkg error on trying to install google-chrome-stable via addons as shown above:

dpkg-deb: error: archive '/var/cache/apt/archives/google-chrome-stable_77.0.3865.75-1_amd64.deb' has premature member 'control.tar.xz' before 'control.tar.gz', giving up
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/google-chrome-stable_77.0.3865.75-1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2

Adding the following to the .travis.linux.yml file fixed it so it now works again (upgrade dpkg before installing google-chrome-stable):

addons:
  apt:
+   update: true
    sources:
     - google-chrome
    packages:
+    - dpkg
     - google-chrome-stable

@richtr and @chitoku-k I ran into the same dpkg error and can confirm that your fix works great. Thanks SO MUCH for posting this! I had been relying on Travis's dated version of Chrome plus the latest version of chromedriver and was running into incompatibility issues every few months. Seems like using apt with this fix gets my Chrome and chromedriver versions synced up and on an evergreen path now. Thanks again!

@richtr I appreciate your suggestions that pointed out how to fix that issue. Your fix successfully revived this config and I ascertained that the dpkg is the root cause that prevented from this script working. And also thanks @dougjohnston for another successful reporting as well. The fix and the sample for TweetDeck has also been updated!

I've created the repository and integrate Travis CI build service for these gist snippets.

Please feel free to use and refer :).