url

Protocol binding to load the URL of the browser. If a baseUrl is specified in the config, it will be prepended to the url parameter using node's url.resolve() method. Calling browser.url('...') with the same url as last time will trigger a page reload.

Usage#
browser.url(url)
Parameters#
NameTypeDetails
url
optional
Stringthe URL to navigate to
Examples#
url.js
// navigate to a new URL
browser.url('https://webdriver.io');
// receive url
console.log(browser.getUrl()); // outputs: "https://webdriver.io"
baseUrlResolutions.js
// With a base URL of http://example.com/site, the following url parameters resolve as such:
// When providing a scheme:
// https://webdriver.io
browser.url('https://webdriver.io');
// When not starting with a slash, the URL resolves relative to the baseUrl
// http://example.com/site/relative
browser.url('relative');
// When starting with a slash, the URL resolves relative to the root path of the baseUrl
// http://example.com/rootRelative
browser.url('/rootRelative');