Change GeoLocation in Firefox with Selenium WebDriver

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Problem

We want to manipulate our GeoLocation in the Firefox browser using Selenium WebDriver.

Solution

We have to follow a few steps in order to achieve the desired behavior. We have to create a customized Firefox profile, we have to create a JSON file with the desired location and finally we have to adjust our code to use the customized profile and JSON location file.

  • Create a predefined Firefox profile.
  1. Start the Firefox Profile manager with: firefox.exe -P and create a new profile.
  2. Open about:permissions in the browser
  3. Locate the entry of the website and change Share Location from Always Ask to Allow
  • Create a JSON file with a GeoLocation.
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{
    "status": "OK",
    "accuracy": 10.0,
    "location": {"lat": 52.1771129, "lng": 5.4099848}
}

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{
    "status": "OK",
    "accuracy": 10.0,
    "location": {"lat": 52.1771129, "lng": 5.4099848}
}
  • Use the just created profile and set the geo.wifi.uri preference before launching the browser. So, the the code will end up like this:
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import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxProfile;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.internal.ProfilesIni;
import org.testng.annotations.AfterClass;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class LocationContextExample {
    private static WebDriver driver;

    @BeforeClass
    public void setUp() {
        FirefoxProfile profile = new ProfilesIni().getProfile("dev");
        profile.setPreference("geo.wifi.uri", "file://C:/location.json");
        driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);
        driver.get("http://www.w3schools.com/html5/html5_geolocation.asp");
    }

    @AfterClass
    public void tearDown() {
        driver.close();
        driver.quit();
    }

    @Test
    public void getLocation() throws InterruptedException {
        driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("p#demo button")).click();
        Thread.sleep(5000);
    }
}

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import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxProfile;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.internal.ProfilesIni;
import org.testng.annotations.AfterClass;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class LocationContextExample {
    private static WebDriver driver;

    @BeforeClass
    public void setUp() {
        FirefoxProfile profile = new ProfilesIni().getProfile("dev");
        profile.setPreference("geo.wifi.uri", "file://C:/location.json");
        driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);
        driver.get("http://www.w3schools.com/html5/html5_geolocation.asp");
    }

    @AfterClass
    public void tearDown() {
        driver.close();
        driver.quit();
    }

    @Test
    public void getLocation() throws InterruptedException {
        driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("p#demo button")).click();
        Thread.sleep(5000);
    }
}

Change GeoLocation in Firefox with Selenium WebDriver
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