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Faking geolocation in Chrome with javascript for @RubyTester
# Solution found @ http://stackoverflow.com/a/31803008:
from selenium import webdriver
import requests
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
fake_lat = "37.773972"
fake_long = "-122.431297"
# Sending latitude, longitude with JS script
driver.execute_script("window.navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition=function(success){"+
"var position = {\"coords\" : {\"latitude\": \"%s\",\"longitude\": \"%s\"}};"+
"success(position);}");
# Printing latitude, longitude from the browser
print(driver.execute_script("var positionStr=\"\";"+
"window.navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(function(pos){positionStr=pos.coords.latitude+\":\"+pos.coords.longitude});"+
"return positionStr;")) % (fake_lat, fake_long)
# Neat stuff from google maps api!
googlemap_url = "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=%s,%s" % (fake_lat, fake_long)
get_data = requests.get(googlemap_url)
print get_data.content
driver.quit()
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ghost commented Jan 26, 2016

The solution in Ruby in Remote Chrome is to use driver.set_location after getting the driver - but first you have to pass a setting to chromedriver to accept the geolocation query and do not prompt the user: See this: https://gist.github.com/rubytester/26b81d9d77431f51380b#file-geoloc_chrome-rb-L15

That code starts a local driver (and set_location does not work there yet).
This works for remote driver:
https://gist.github.com/rubytester/26b81d9d77431f51380b

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sqe commented Jan 26, 2016

nice, thanks for sharing!

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