Launch appium server from python script

fgh · January 30, 2020, 7:17am

Hi guys,

Who knows AppiumService module?

I am working on multitesting on real devices in parallel.

I would like to launch appium server from my python script.

I found some solution on stackoverflow:

There are obviously 2 ways:

running a command from os
Using a library AppiumService

I am interested in the 2nd one which looks cleaner. But the readme.md of this module is not very clear for me as I am a newbie.

I couldn’t find doc anywhere?

How can I pass the port and ip or other args to appium server. I need it for my multitest on parallele real devices ?

Thanks for your help

mykola-mokhnach · January 30, 2020, 6:54pm

github.com

appium/python-client/blob/4d269f828ab835d0b01a3c3d1b38ff7f89bbabde/appium/webdriver/appium_service.py#L228


            return False
        host = self._parse_host(self._cmd)
        port = self._parse_port(self._cmd)
        return self.is_running and poll_url(host, port, STATUS_URL, 1000)




if __name__ == '__main__':
    assert(find_executable('node') is not None)
    assert(find_executable('npm') is not None)
    service = AppiumService()
    service.start(args=['--address', '127.0.0.1', '-p', str(DEFAULT_PORT)])
    # service.start(args=['--address', '127.0.0.1', '-p', '80'], timeout_ms=2000)
    assert(service.is_running)
    assert(service.is_listening)
    service.stop()
    assert(not service.is_running)
    assert(not service.is_listening)

extr3mal · January 20, 2021, 10:51am

Thanks for info on starting server programmaticaly . Now it’s very interesting to me how to get process id of launched server. Can someone make a hint