Changelog

Logging: New node to configure logging for debugging and support purposes

Update Selenium to 4.15.0

Update HtmlUnit 3 Driver to 4.14.1

Update bundled Chrome to 119.0.6045.105

Update driver binaries (Microsoft WebDriver (Chromium) 119.0.2151.72)

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 119.0.6045.105, Microsoft WebDriver (Chromium) 118.0.2088.76)

Update Selenium to 4.14.1

Update HtmlUnit 3 Driver to 4.13.0

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 118.0.5993.70, Microsoft WebDriver (Chromium) 118.0.2088.61)

Authentication (HTTP Basic): New node to configure HTTP Basic authentication

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 117.0.5938.92, Microsoft WebDriver (Chromium) 117.0.2045.43/117.0.2045.40)

Fix issue “Could not start a new session. Possible causes are invalid address of the remote server or browser start-up failure.” when running Edge

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 116.0.5845.96, Microsoft WebDriver (Chromium) 116.0.1938.76)

Update bundled Chrome to 116.0.5845.96

Update Selenium to 4.12.1

Update HtmlUnit 3 Driver to 4.12.0

Show capability snippets if Chrome for Testing (bundled) is used

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 115.0.5790.170, Microsoft WebDriver (Chromium) 115.0.1901.200)

Fix issue “cannot find Chrome binary” when starting Chrome browser (see here, here)

Fix “Could not start a new session.” when starting a Firefox browser (caused by invalid capabilities structure)

Input License Key: Node which allows to set the license key (as an alternative way to the KNIME preferences; useful if you’re having issues to set the license on a KNIME Server; see here)

Replacing bundled Chromium with “Chrome for Testing”

Update bundled Chrome to 115.0.5790.98

Works with KNIME 5.1

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 115.0.5790.98, Microsoft WebDriver (Chromium) 114.0.1823.86)

Execute JavaScript: JSON handling on KNIME 5.1

Update Selenium to 4.10.0

Update HtmlUnitDriver to htmlunit3-driver 4.9.1 (now uses HtmlUnit 3.x instead of HtmlUnit 2.70)

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 114.0.5735.90, Microsoft WebDriver (Chromium) 113.0.1774.57)

Use --headless=new in Chrome headless capability snippet

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 113.0.5672.63, Microsoft WebDriver (Chromium) 113.0.1774.42)

Network Dump Start and Network Dump End: New nodes to capture network traffic

Update Selenium to 4.8.3

Update bundled Chromium to 112.0.5615.49

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 112.0.5615.49, Microsoft WebDriver (Chromium) 112.0.1722.34, geckodriver 0.33.0)

Opera which is no longer supported by Selenium (see here)

Remove Marionette web driver

Removed “Parse HTML source” DOM outline strategy (ensure to chose a different one in the preferences)

Removed deprecated “Edge driver (Legacy)” – please switch to “Edge (Chromium)”

Removed deprecated PhantomJS – use headless Chrome or Firefox instead

Get rid of separate dependencies plugin

Works with current KNIME 5.0 nightly

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 111.0.5563.64, OperaChromiumDriver 110.0.5481.100, Microsoft WebDriver (Chromium) 111.0.1661.41)

Fix issues caused by incompatible API changes in Chrome 111 and newer (affects e.g. “Find Elements” preview, “Cookies”, etc.)

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 110.0.5481.77, OperaChromiumDriver 109.0.5414.120, Microsoft WebDriver (Chromium) 110.0.1587.50, geckodriver 0.32.2)

Support for Apple Silicon aka. ARM: Bundle native driver binaries and Chromium (except: deprecated PhantomJS; Opera which currently provides no binaries) – kudos to Sarah for testing and the valuable feedback!

Solve Captcha: New node for automatically solving ReCaptcha and hCaptcha using the 2Captcha API – currently labeled as “beta” — your feedback is welcome! (kudos to @armingrudd)

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 109.0.5414.74, Microsoft WebDriver (Chromium) 109.0.1518.61)

Requires at least KNIME 4.5 (please make sure you’re using an update site URL corresponding to your KNIME version)

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 108.0.5359.71, OperaChromiumDriver 108.0.5359.99, Microsoft WebDriver (Chromium) 108.0.1462.54)

Cookies: Allow to delete cookies (feedback by mwiegand, thank you!)

Cookies: Only return relevant columns depending on selected method

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 107.0.5304.62, OperaChromiumDriver 107.0.5304.88, Microsoft WebDriver (Chromium) 107.0.1418.52)

Update bundled Chromium to 107.0.5304.110

Get Cookies: Replaced with “Cookies” node

Find Elements: Prevent unbound horizontal growth of dialog in case of long selector suggestions

Get Cookies: Fix node description

Remove unneeded dependencies

Get Cookies: New node to get cookies

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 106.0.5249.61, OperaChromiumDriver 106.0.5249.119, Microsoft WebDriver (Chromium) 106.0.1370.52, geckodriver 0.32.0)

Find Elements: Show query suggestions based on id, class, name attributes and tag names

Update driver binaries (OperaChromiumDriver 105.0.5195.102, Microsoft WebDriver (Chromium) 105.0.1343.42)

Execute JavaScript: Allow returning JSON arrays

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 105.0.5195.52, OperaChromiumDriver 104.0.5112.81, Microsoft WebDriver (Chromium) 105.0.1343.27)

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 104.0.5112.79, OperaChromiumDriver 103.0.5060.66, Microsoft WebDriver 104.0.1293.54)

Start WebDriver: Increase the default timeouts for page load and scripts from 10 seconds to 60 seconds

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 103.0.5060.53, OperaChromiumDriver 102.0.5005.61, Microsoft WebDriver 103.0.1264.37)

Requires at least KNIME 4.4 (please make sure you’re using an update site URL corresponding to your KNIME version)

Support Chromium-based Edge (Windows, macOS)

WebDriver Factory and Start WebDriver: Capability snippet example from mobile emulation with Chrome (see here)

Mark “legacy” Edge driver as deprecated -- we’ll remove it in the next major release.

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 102.0.5005.61)

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 100.0.4896.60, OperaChromiumDriver 99.0.4844.51, geckodriver 0.31.0)

Update bundled Chromium to 100.0.4896

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 99.0.4844.51, OperaChromiumDriver 98.0.4758.82)

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 98.0.4758.102, OperaChromiumDriver 97.0.4692.71)

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 97.0.4692.71)

Requires at least KNIME 4.2 (please make sure you’re using an update site URL corresponding to your KNIME version)

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 96.0.4664.45)

Update bundled Chromium to 96.0.4664

Remove driver binaries fragment for Windows 32 bit (KNIME 4.2 is 64 bit only)

Remove bundled Chromium for Windows 32 bit (KNIME 4.2 is 64 bit only)

Extract Attribute, Clear, Click, Extract CSS Property, Drag and Drop, Extract Inner/OuterHTML, Send File Path, Send Keys, Submit, Table Extractor: Fix “Extract First Match Only” toggle

Find Elements: Dialog layout on resize

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 95.0.4638.69, OperaChromiumDriver 95.0.4638.54)

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 94.0.4606.61, OperaChromiumDriver 93.0.4577.63, geckodriver 0.30.0)

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 92.0.4515.107, OperaChromiumDriver 92.0.4515.107)

Start WebDriver and Get Pooled WebDriver: Resolve concurrency issue (“Execute failed: webDriver must not be null”) when used within busy loops (see here)

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 91.0.4472.101, OperaChromiumDriver 91.0.4472.77)

Update bundled Chromium to 91.0.4472

Marked “HtmlUnit” as deprecated -- it’ll likely be removed from the next major release. As HtmlUnit is not state of the art for current websites, we strongly recommend to switch to headless Chrome or Firefox instead.

KNIME 4.4 fixes (conflicts with XML-related classes on Java 11)

WebDriver Factory: Add capability snippet to disable navigator.webdriver flag in Chrome (see here)

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 90.0.4430.24, OperaChromiumDriver 89.0.4389.82, geckodriver 0.29.1)

Updated bundled Chromium to 90.0.4430.85

Fix plugin conflicts when running together with older Palladian versions (thanks to rfeigel). Important: This requires that you also update your Palladian plugin to the most recent version. Apologies for any inconvenience!

Requires at least KNIME 4.1 (please make sure you’re using an update site URL corresponding to your KNIME version)

Extract Attribute, Clear, Click, Extract CSS Property, Drag and Drop, Extract Inner/OuterHTML, Send File Path, Send Keys, Submit, Table Extractor: New node versions which allow to pick WebElements directly within the dialog without having to put a “Find Elements” input node first (old versions still work and become “deprecated”)

Extract Inner/OuterHTML renamed to Extract Text and add “textContent” option

Use NodePit Licensing plugin for license key management

Execute JavaScript: Support boolean and long flow variables which finally made it to KNIME 4.1

Execute JavaScript: Support collection flow variables and input cells

Execute JavaScript: Support JSON input and output

Add migration logic to replace deprecated nodes

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 88.0.4324.96, OperaChromiumDriver 88.0.4324.104, geckodriver 0.29.0)

Update bundled Chromium to 88.0.4324.153

Execute JavaScript: Properly map Boolean cells

Prevent Chrome driver conflicts with KNIME’s JS nodes; do not use webdriver.chrome.driver system property (see here)

Find Elements: Fixed behavior in case of multiple subsequent element selects in browser (regression introduced in 4.6.2)

Find Elements: Improve behavior when selecting ::before and ::after pseudo elements

Find Elements: Fix outline view showing “Failed reading response message”

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 87.0.4280.88, OperaChromiumDriver 87.0.4280.67, geckodriver 0.28.0)

Find Elements: Fixed the highlighting aka. “visual preview” of selected elements in Chromium-based browsers; unfortunately newer browser versions will disable the highlight when moving the mouse over the window -- we’re currently still investigating how this can be avoided

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 86.0.4240.22, OperaChromiumDriver 86.0.4240.80, Internet Explorer Driver Server 3.150.1)

Find Elements: Show hint in outline view when upstream nodes are not executed

Requires at least KNIME 4.0 (please make sure you’re using an update site URL corresponding to your KNIME version)

Table Extractor: Allow to treat rowspan and colspan as missing cells

Select: Add “Remove input column” setting

Send File: New node for sending a file path e.g. to an <input> element

Extract Attribute: Allow to specify name of output column

Extract CSS Property: Allow to specify name of output column

Extract Outer/InnerHTML: Allow to specify name of output column

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 85.0.4183.87, OperaChromiumDriver 85.0.4183.102, geckodriver 0.27.0)

Update bundled Chromium to 85.0.4183.121

Extract InnerHTML: Rename to Extract Outer/InnerHTML

Improve error message when Selenium data is missing; explain to re-run from the “Start WebDriver” node

Extract Attribute: Suggest common attribute names

Hide driver binary settings in preferences

Select: Saving of settings

Table Extractor: Allow to skip empty rows (kudos @armingrudd)

Update driver binaries (OperaChromiumDriver 84.0.4147.89)

Table Extractor: Fixed handling of empty <tr></tr> rows (kudos @armingrudd)

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 84.0.4147.30)

Properly propagate proxy settings for Chrome (thanks to dasturiol)

Typing for proxy port settings in Firefox template must be Long instead of String (thanks to dasturiol)

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 83.0.4103.39, OperaChromiumDriver 83.0.4103.97)

Navigate: Prevent validation errors when using Flow Variable input

Send Keys: Prevent validation errors when using Flow Variable input

Navigate: Add “Flow Variable” to URL input.

Send Keys: Add “Flow Variable” to text input.

Wait: Add “Flow Variable” to time input.

Find Elements: Add “Flow Variable” to query and result column input.

Take Full Page Screenshot: New node for taking “full page” screenhots (i.e. longer than the visible window bounds) using Chrome. Currently labeled as “beta” — your feedback is welcome!

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 81.0.4044.138, OperaChromiumDriver 81.0.4044.113)

Start WebDriver: Fix initialization of default factory.

Start WebDriver: Fix type of optional input port.

Create PDF: New node for creating PDF files using headless Chrome/Chromium browsers. Currently labeled as “beta” — your feedback is welcome!

WebDriver Factory: Add capability snippets for Firefox to disable image loading and for proxy servers (kudos @armingrudd)

WebDriver Factory: Add “Ignore Certificate Errors” for Firefox

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 81.0.4044.69, OperaChromiumDriver 80.0.3987.100)

Update bundled Chromium to 81.0.4044.92

Start WebDriver: Make input port for the factory optional, and allow to configure the WebDriver directly within the node configuration.

Reset on Load: Fix when used in metanode or wrapped metanode or component or however these things are called now (thanks to Rich_ard)

WebDriver Factory: Add capability snippet for ignoring SSL certificate errors in Chrome

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 80.0.3987.106, OperaChromiumDriver 79.0.3945.79)

Update bundled Chromium to 80.0.3987.117

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 79.0.3945.36, OperaChromiumDriver 78.0.3904.87)

Navigate: Allow node configuration without input table

Find Elements: Fix outline and selection when using bundled Chromium (error message “Couldn’t connect to the browser.”)

Fixed visual selection and preview for WebDrivers created with the “Get Pooled WebDriver” node.

Requires at least KNIME 3.6 (please make sure you’re using an update site URL corresponding to your KNIME version)

Reset on Load: New node to reset all connected downstream nodes everytime a workflow is loaded. This is useful together with the “Start WebDriver” node, which needs to be re-executed after loading a workflow. Currently labeled as “beta” — your feedback is welcome!

Find Elements: New “visual selection” functionality for Chromium-based browsers; you can now select elements directly in the browser and the Find Elements dialog will create a matching selector for you.

Find Elements: New “visual preview” functionality for Chromium-based browsers; the elements which match your selector will now be highlighted directly in the browser window.

Selenium Session Info: New node which provides technical information (Selenium Server URL, Selenium Session ID) about a WebDriver

Navigate: Add “Current URL” button to insert the URL currently shown in the browser.

Advocate and recommend “CSS” as the default selector method from now on (in “Find Elements” it’s the default settings now instead of XPath). Main reason: In contrast to XPath, CSS selectors do not require fiddly workarounds in case of namespaces, and it’s much easier to write .class and #id selectors. XPath will further be supported.

Add node categorization

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 78.0.3904.70, OperaChromiumDriver 77.0.3865.120, geckodriver 0.26.0)

Update bundled Chromium to 78.0.3904.87

The “Parse HTML source” DOM outline strategy is now deprecated, will no longer be maintained, and will be removed in the next major release — we recommend to use the new “Chrome DevTools”-based outline creator (see the preferences)

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 76.0.3809.68, OperaChromiumDriver 75.0.3770.100)

Find Elements: Properly return missing values if “Missing values” option is enabled together with “Wait”

WebDriver Factory: Prevent exception when opening dialog with a missing factory

KNIME 4 compatibility

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 75.0.3770.90)

Remove jBrowserDriver plugin, as jBrowserDriver cannot be used with KNIME 4.0 due to missing JavaFX components (see here for the technical background). In case you’re updating and had jBrowserDriver installed before, you’ll see an error “Cannot complete the install because of a conflicting dependency”. In this case you manually need to uninstall jBrowserDriver first.

Execute Selenium script: Remove deprecated node

Remove driver binaries fragment for Linux 32 bit (see here)

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 74.0.3729.6, OperaChromiumDriver 2.45)

Update bundled Chromium to 74.0.3729.169

More efficient storage of WebDriver and WebElement cells

Default renderer for WebDriver and WebElement cells now truncates to 1,000 characters to speed up table rendering. In case you prefer to see the entire cell snapshot, you can switch to “Search Context (full)” for “WebDriver” and “WebElement” in the “Preferred Renderers” preferences (or use the column header’s context menu to switch temporarily).

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 73.0.3683.68, OperaChromiumDriver 2.42, geckodriver 0.24.0)

Take Screenshot: Allow taking screenshots of WebElements (must be supported by browser)

Find Elements: Further fix for XPath generation for fragments with ID

Execute JavaScript: Handle missing values – kudos to umutcankurt

Fix path to bundled Chromium on Windows environments

Find Elements: Add option to return missing value in case nothing was found – kudos @armingrudd

Update Selenium to 3.141.59

Update htmlunit-driver to 2.33.3

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 2.45, OperaChromiumDriver 2.41, Internet Explorer Driver Server 3.14.0, geckodriver 0.23.0)

Update bundled Chromium to 71.0.3578.98

Update jBrowserDriver to 1.0.1

With the next major release we will no longer provide driver binaries for Linux 32 bit (there are no more current ChromeDrivers for Linux 32 Bit)

Find Elements: Allow to cancel node execution while waiting — kudos @armingrudd

Find Elements: Fix generated XPaths for page fragments with ID

Find Elements: Fix string representation for empty comments in source view

Find Elements: Fix for potentially hanging DOM preview. Many thanks to armingrudd for reporting this!

Alert: Fix for saving the node configuration. In case you encounter any warnings or errors with this node during workflow load, configuration or execution, please open the Alert node’s configuration dialog once, confirm the settings, and re-save the workflow.

Free update for all existing users

Requires at least KNIME 3.4 (please make sure you’re using an update site URL corresponding to your KNIME version)

Current URL: New node to get the currently shown URL of a WebDriver

Add included Microsoft WebDriver 6.17134 for Edge

Add “source snapshots” for WebDriver and WebElement cells

Add a bundled Chromium browser available as a separate, optional installation

Update Selenium to 3.14.0

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 2.41, OperaChromiumDriver 3.37, IE Driver Server 3.13.0, geckodriver 0.21.0)

Update jBrowserDriver to 1.0.0

Find Elements: Make node dialog “data aware” — in case an input table is present, the dialog now shows the actual DOM source and allows to create XPath queries by double clicking on a line. Furthermore, the number of matching elements for the current query is shown.

Navigate and Start WebDriver: Allow usage of knime: URLs for local files

WebDriver Factory: Show icons for different WebDrivers

Execute JavaScript: Show icons for return types

Execute JavaScript: Add note how to return complex data

Move jBrowserDriver to a separate, optional installation

Make “column guessing” logic more strict — in case an input column which was once configured is no longer available, the nodes will no show an error, instead of silently selecting a different column. In case you should encounter error messages with existing workflows, simply re-configure the corresponding nodes and explicitly select the appropriate input column once.

Get Pooled WebDriver: Remove “BETA” label

Execute Selenium script: Mark node as deprecated, as the Selenium Builder project for creating JSON scripts is not maintained any longer. The node will be removed in the next major update.

PhantomJS is now deprecated — the project is no longer maintained and we strongly recommend to switch to headless Chrome or Firefox

Fix capability support for jBrowserDriver

Update ChromeDriver to 2.36 (fixes executing JavaScript code on recent Chrome versions)

Update ChromeDriver to 2.33 to fix issue when getting/setting window size/position on Chrome 64+

Free update for all existing users

Important: Update site URLs have changed — please see here

Requires at least KNIME 3.2

Public extension points to add custom WebDriver and Locator implementations

Support using the Selenium types WebDriver and WebElement in KNIME’s Java Snippet node

Alert: New node for interacting with JavaScript “Alert”, “Confirm”, and “Prompt” boxes; Important: This does not work with the headless browsers (PhantomJS, jBrowser, and HtmlUnit, headless Chrome). Please read the node’s documentation on how to work with dialogs in a headless environment.

Get Pooled WebDriver: New node which manages a global pool of WebDrivers respective browsers to drastically speed up certain scenarios. Still in incubation phase — any feedback welcome!

WebDriver Factory: Greatly improved editor to allow access to the full Selenium capabilities power, add predefined capability snippets (e.g. for headless Chrome/Firefox, specifying proxy settings, ignoring SSL errors, etc.)

Find Elements: New node implementation, old one becomes “deprecated”

Find Elements: Added setting to manually specify result column name

Find Elements: Added setting to specify polling interval in milliseconds when waiting for elements

Find Elements: Cleaner layout of configuration dialog

Clear, Click, Extract Attribute, Extract CSS property, Extract InnerHTML, Send Keys, Submit: Add setting “Remove input column”

Update Selenium to 3.4.0

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 2.30, OperaChromiumDriver 2.29, Internet Explorer Driver Server 3.4.0, geckodriver 0.18.0)

Update jBrowserDriver to 0.17.8

Table Extractor: Remove “BETA” label and provide detailed node documentation

Table Extractor: Improve column names in case the HTML table contains no header info

Table Extractor: Further improve reliability in case of sloppily structured tables

Execute JavaScript: Show meaningful error message when expected input columns or flow variables are missing

Navigate: Cleaner layout of configuration dialog

WebDriver Factory: “Marionette” WebDriver is no longer necessary; use “Firefox” instead

WebDriver Factory: “Opera (using Chrome driver)” is no longer necessary; use “Opera” instead

Removed old pooling mechanism of PhantomJS instances which was intransparent to the user and suffered from the problem of leftover zombie instances when KNIME crashed

Table Extractor: Gracefully handle case when table row contains less elements than expected; improve general error handling

Final release for KNIME 2.12+

Find Elements: Fix search context when specifying WebElements as input and using the “Explicit wait” option

Additional synchronization, fix string representation of WebDriver and WebElement cells (see version-1.1.1)

Fix rare case of license parsing issue causing an unjustified “The license is invalid.” message

Table Extractor: A new node for the convenient conversion of an HTML <table> into a KNIME table. Currently in early beta — your feedback is welcome!

Update ChromeDriver to 2.27

Update jBrowserDriver to 0.17.3

Frame: Fixed selection menu for WebElement input

Fixing nasty synchronization issue which sometimes caused an “Execute failed: Error communicating with the remote browser. It may have died.” error when running strongly parallelized branches. Many thanks to Julian Leweling for the valuable input towards localizing this problem!

Set correct version numbers for plugins and features.

Frame: Updated with additional methods to select frames, and to navigate back to the parent frame. Old version of the node is marked as “deprecated”.

Execute JavaScript: Fix loading of flow variable inputs.

Ended beta phase

Adding a fixed Opera driver

Fix running Marionette on Windows for good. Apologies and thank you for your patience!

Quit WebDriver: Avoid errors when quitting a WebDriver which is not available any longer; instead only show a warning.

Fix for running Marionette on Windows caused by invalid bundle path

Drag and Drop: New node to drag WebElements

Send Keys: Add additional node documentation on how to send special keys

Update HtmlUnitDriver to 2.22

Old Firefox driver is now deprecated. Instead, Marionette should be used for working with Firefox.

Update ChromeDriver to 2.24 to fix “SessionNotCreatedException” on Chrome 54+

Update jBrowserDriver to 0.17.0 and fix launching issue when KNIME directory is located on a path with spaces

Update jBrowserDriver to 0.15.0

Quit WebDriver: Eliminate potential exception

Update Selenium to 2.53.1

Update jBrowserDriver to 0.14.9

Update driver binaries (ChromeDriver 2.22, geckodriver 0.9.0, Internet Explorer Driver Server 2.53.1)

Update jBrowserDriver to 0.14.5 which gets rid of a custom SecurityManager and thus resolves issues in KNIME in conjunction with parallel streams

Fix starting of included PhantomJS executable when path to binary file contains spaces

Make changes to PhantomJS executable path reflect on all newly created instances

Do not show any notification prompts in Chrome during execution

Quit WebDriver: Fix error when table contains multiple instances of one WebDriver

Update jBrowserDriver to 0.13.4

Replace old PhantomJS driver with pooled version, configuration option to specify number of pooled instances

Passing Selenium data between nodes now works correctly when “Write tables to disc.” is enabled

Add forgotten PhantomJS binary for Linux

Fix serialization regression on KNIME 2.12 introduced with beta-7

Added jBrowserDriver (only in version for KNIME 3.1+)

Pooling of PhantomJS processes

Shortening exception messages when displayed in tool tips

Update bundled driver binaries (Chrome 2.21, Internet Explorer 2.53.0, PhantomJS 2.1.1, Marionette 0.6.2); bundled PhantomJS now also available for Linux

Update Selenium to version 2.53.0 (fixes issue with recent Firefox 45)

Added Marionette and Edge drivers

Frame: New node for frame switching

Start WebDriver: Quit WebDrivers when resetting the node (before, they were only quit when KNIME was closed)

WebDriver Factory: Show capabilities on port mouse over

Wait: Added optional input port

Wait: Improve progress reporting

Execute JavaScript: Ability to select flow variables as input

Update Selenium to version 2.48.2 (fixes issue with recent Firefox 43)

KNIME 3 compatibility

Select: New node for selecting items in <select> menus

Bundle (almost) all driver binaries with the node distribution; this means no more additional manual downloads.

Find Elements: Option to avoid failing node in case no element is found

Send Keys: Ability to send special characters

Execute Selenium script: New node

WebDriver Factory: New node; support RemoteWebDrivers; ability to specify Selenium capabilities

Window: New node

Bulk RemoteWebDriver Factory: New node

Find Elements: Meaningful column names for appended columns

Find Elements: “Extract only first match” option

Start WebDriver: Do not require a URL

Find Elements: Improved progress monitoring

Quit WebDriver: Provide output table

Execute JavaScript: Ability to execute asynchronous JavaScripts

Start WebDriver: Ability to specify global timeouts

Execute JavaScript: Improved dialog layout, added syntax highlighting

Start WebDriver: Ability to specify implicit wait

Find Elements: Ability to specify explicit wait

InnerHTML: Fixed node description and select default options

Extract InnerHTML: New node

Close open WebDrivers when quitting KNIME

Append unique column names to avoid any conflicts

Initial release