# selenium-standalone > installs a `selenium-standalone` command line to install and start a standalone selenium server Latest version **10.0.2** (published 2025-07-17) · MIT license · 103.6K weekly downloads ## Install ```sh npm install selenium-standalone pnpm add selenium-standalone yarn add selenium-standalone bun add selenium-standalone ``` Provides the command `selenium-standalone`. ## Health **Score 48/100 (D)** — status: maintenance-mode. Positive: moderate downloads; has types package; no vulnerabilities; high quality score. Warnings: no esm support. Negative: stale; low maintenance score. ## Facts | | | |---|---| | Version | 10.0.2 | | Published | 2025-07-17 | | First published | 2013-09-25 | | Weekly downloads | 103.6K | | License | MIT | | TypeScript types | separate (@types/selenium-standalone) | | Module format | CommonJS | | Node | >=14 | | Dependencies | 19 | | Unpacked size | 107.4 KB | | Known vulnerabilities | 0 | | Install scripts | no | | GitHub stars | 917 | | Author | Vincent Voyer | | Maintainers | devpaul, serbanghita, nolanlawson, vvo, azakus, c2c, stephenash, mgrybyk, wdio-user, kylewhitaker | ## Links - npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/selenium-standalone - Repository: https://github.com/webdriverio/selenium-standalone - Issues: https://github.com/webdriverio/selenium-standalone/issues - npm.io page: https://npm.io/package/selenium-standalone ## Dependencies (19) - [got](https://npm.io/package/got.md) ^11.8.6 - [md5](https://npm.io/package/md5.md) ^2.3.0 - [debug](https://npm.io/package/debug.md) ^4.3.1 - [execa](https://npm.io/package/execa.md) ^5.1.1 - [fkill](https://npm.io/package/fkill.md) ^7.2.1 - [which](https://npm.io/package/which.md) ^2.0.2 - [yauzl](https://npm.io/package/yauzl.md) ^3.1.2 - [mkdirp](https://npm.io/package/mkdirp.md) ^2.1.3 - [minimist](https://npm.io/package/minimist.md) ^1.2.5 - [progress](https://npm.io/package/progress.md) 2.0.3 - [commander](https://npm.io/package/commander.md) ^8.3.0 - [tar-stream](https://npm.io/package/tar-stream.md) 3.1.7 - [cross-spawn](https://npm.io/package/cross-spawn.md) ^7.0.3 - [find-process](https://npm.io/package/find-process.md) 1.4.7 - [lodash.merge](https://npm.io/package/lodash.merge.md) ^4.6.2 - [http-proxy-agent](https://npm.io/package/http-proxy-agent.md) ^7.0.2 - [lodash.mapvalues](https://npm.io/package/lodash.mapvalues.md) ^4.6.0 - [https-proxy-agent](https://npm.io/package/https-proxy-agent.md) ^7.0.4 - [is-port-reachable](https://npm.io/package/is-port-reachable.md) ^3.0.0 ## Recent versions - 10.0.2 (latest) — 2025-07-17 - 10.0.1 — 2025-01-16 - 10.0.0 — 2024-06-25 - 9.5.0 — 2024-04-02 - 9.4.0 — 2024-03-24 - 9.3.3 — 2024-02-16 - 9.3.2 — 2024-01-24 - 9.3.1 — 2023-12-13 - 9.3.0 — 2023-10-23 - 9.2.2 — 2023-10-14 - 9.2.1 — 2023-10-13 - 9.2.0 — 2023-10-02 - 9.1.2 — 2023-09-17 - 9.1.1 — 2023-08-28 - 9.1.0 — 2023-08-28 - … 156 more at https://npm.io/package/selenium-standalone/versions ## README Node.js Selenium Standalone [![Test](https://github.com/webdriverio/selenium-standalone/actions/workflows/test.yml/badge.svg?branch=main&event=push)](https://github.com/webdriverio/selenium-standalone/actions/workflows/test.yml) ![Supported node versions](https://img.shields.io/badge/node-%2014%2C%2016%2C%2018%2C%2020-green) =========================== > A node based CLI library for launching [Selenium](http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/) with [WebDriver](https://w3c.github.io/webdriver/) support. Supported Drivers: * [ChromeDriver](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver) * [geckodriver](https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases) (Firefox) * [IEDriver](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriver) * [Edge WebDriver](https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/webdriver/#downloads) * [Chromium Edge WebDriver](https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/webdriver/#downloads) ## Available browsers By default, Google Chrome, Firefox and Microsoft Edge are available when installed on the host system. Starting from `v6.22` chrome, edgechromium, and geckodriver support `latest` as version. Starting from `v9.0.6` supported changes regarding new storage for `latest` versions of chromedriver. Starting from `v9.2.0` added new feature 'onlyDriver' ## Install & Run ### As Global NPM Package ```shell npm install selenium-standalone -g selenium-standalone install && selenium-standalone start ``` ### As a Local NPM Package ```shell npm install selenium-standalone --save-dev npx selenium-standalone install && npx selenium-standalone start ``` ### As a Docker Service ```shell docker run -it -p 4444:4444 webdriverio/selenium-standalone ``` If you run Chrome or Firefox tests within a Docker container make sure you set capabilities so that the session is headless, e.g.: ```js capabilities: { browserName: 'chrome', 'goog:chromeOptions': { args: ['--no-sandbox', '--headless'] } } ``` or Firefox: ```js capabilities: { browserName: 'firefox', 'moz:firefoxOptions': { args: ['-headless'] } } ``` If you are looking for more sophisticated Docker container that allows you to run browser, check out the [Docker Selenium](https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium) project. ## Command line interface ([CLI](./docs/CLI.md)) See [CLI](./docs/CLI.md) docs ## Application Programming Interface ([API](./docs/API.md)) See [API](./docs/API.md) docs ## Tips - [Start Selenium whenever your (ubuntu) machine starts!](./docs/run-when-system-starts.md) - [Ensure you have the minimum required Java version](./docs/java-versions.md) - [Logging](./docs/logging.md) - [`Error: unable to get local issuer certificate`](./docs/issuer-cerificate.md) - [Running headlessly with xvfb](./docs/xvfb.md) ### Examples of combining with other tools - [WebdriverIO + Jasmine](https://github.com/mgrybyk/wdio-jasmine-boilerplate) in CircleCI - [WebdriverIO + Cucumber](https://gitlab.com/bar_foo/wdio-cucumber-typescript) in GitLab ## :woman_technologist: :man_technologist: Contributing You like this project and want to help making it better? Awesome! Have a look into our [Contributor Documentation](CONTRIBUTING.md) to get started with setting up the repo. If you're looking for issues to help out with, check out [the issues labelled "good first pick"](https://github.com/webdriverio/selenium-standalone/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A"good+first+pick"). You can also reach out in on [Discord](https://discord.webdriver.io) if you have question on where to start contributing. --- _Source: https://npm.io/package/selenium-standalone · Machine-readable twin of the npm.io package page. Health data is recomputed on every publish._