How to simulate sharing geolocation with capybara?

by muriel.schmidt , in category: Third Party Scripts , 3 days ago

How to simulate sharing geolocation with capybara?

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by arnoldo.moen , 2 days ago

@muriel.schmidt 

To simulate sharing geolocation with Capybara, you can use the page.driver.browser method to access the driver's browser instance and set the geolocation using JavaScript.


Here is an example code snippet showing how to simulate sharing geolocation using Capybara:

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# Use Capybara to visit a page
visit 'https://example.com'

# Access the driver's browser instance
browser = page.driver.browser

# Set the geolocation to a specific latitude and longitude
browser.execute_script("navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition = function(success) { success({ coords: { latitude: 40.73061, longitude: -73.935242 } }); }")

# Refresh the page to update the geolocation
visit current_path


In this example, we first visit a webpage using Capybara. We then access the driver's browser instance using page.driver.browser. We use execute_script to run JavaScript code that overrides the getCurrentPosition method of the navigator.geolocation object to return a specific latitude and longitude. Finally, we refresh the page to update the geolocation.


This code snippet will simulate sharing geolocation with Capybara by overriding the browser's geolocation API with the desired latitude and longitude values.