How to open a Chrome application into Robot using selenium2Library

Question

I'm trying to open our windows Chrome exe in Robot using selenium2Library. I've tried creating a webdriver using Create Webdriver with this code but it's not working.

${options}=    Evaluate    sys.modules['selenium.webdriver'].ChromeOptions()       sys, selenium.webdriver.chrome.options
${options.add_extension}=        Set_Variable          path/to/extension
Create WebDriver    Chrome    chrome_options=${options}

In Python I do this... and it launches my app in selenium.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains

def chromedr():
    chrome_options = Options()
    chrome_options.binary_location = 'C:/Program Files (x86)/InTouch Health/Carestation/Carestation.exe'
    driver = webdriver.Chrome('C:/Program Files (x86)/InTouch Health/Carestation/chromedriver.exe', chrome_options=chrome_options)  
    return driver

How can I do this in Robot/selenium2Library?

I was able to launch the Application using this code: ${options}= Evaluate sys.modules['selenium.webdriver'].ChromeOptions() sys, selenium.webdriver Create WebDriver Chrome my_alias chrome_options=${options} executable_path=C:/Program Files (x86)/Myapp.exe

Answer 1

To open chrome with robotframework selenium2library

1) install selenium2Library through pip

2) download and extract Chrome driver exe, add it to environment variables

3) you can invoke chrome like below

*** Settings ***
Library    Selenium2Library
*** Variables ***
${SiteUrl}    https://stackoverflow.com
${Browser}    Chrome
*** Test Cases ***
Test
    Open Browser and login
*** Keywords ***
Open Browser and login
    open browser    ${SiteUrl}    ${Browser}