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Automate Safari for web testing

Turn on Safari’s WebDriver and run Selenium tests against real Safari.

Safari’s WebDriver is built into macOS at /usr/bin/safaridriver and is off by default. Turn it on once:

safaridriver --enable

Then point Selenium (or another WebDriver client) at Safari; most client libraries start safaridriver for you. For example, in Python, webdriver.Safari().

Safari is a desktop app, so run tests while dev is logged in to the desktop: log in once with Screen Sharing, or turn on automatic login in System Settings → Users & Groups.

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Install Homebrew and common toolsInstall Homebrew on Apple silicon and the usual developer tools.Keep jobs running after you disconnecttmux, nohup and launchd for long builds and servers.Copy files to and from your Macscp, rsync and sftp with your custom port.

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