Selenium IDE Migration - SeleniumBase for Rust

Legacy .html format

If you have legacy Selenium IDE .html test cases, SeleniumBase for Rust can parse them into a list of commands that you can replay with BaseCase. This guide shows how to migrate those tests into Rust code.

Info

What you will learn

How to parse legacy .html IDE files and strings.
How to replay parsed commands with BaseCase.
Which commands map directly and which need manual translation.

Parse an IDE HTML file or string#

use seleniumbase_rs::utilities::selenium_ide::parse_ide_file;let commands = parse_ide_file("tests/login.html")?;for cmd in &commands {    println!("{} {} {}", cmd.command, cmd.target, cmd.value);}

use seleniumbase_rs::utilities::selenium_ide::parse_ide_html;let html = r#"<table>    <tr><td>open</td><td>/login</td><td></td></tr>    <tr><td>type</td><td>id=username</td><td>admin</td></tr>    <tr><td>click</td><td>id=submit</td><td></td></tr></table>"#;let commands = parse_ide_html(html)?;

Replay commands with BaseCase#

src/main.rs

use seleniumbase_rs::{BaseCase, BrowserConfig};use seleniumbase_rs::utilities::selenium_ide::parse_ide_file;#[tokio::main]async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {    let mut sb = BaseCase::new(BrowserConfig::default()).await?;    let commands = parse_ide_file("tests/login.html")?;    for cmd in commands {        match cmd.command.as_str() {            "open" => sb.open(&cmd.target).await?,            "type" => sb.type_text(&cmd.target, &cmd.value).await?,            "click" => sb.click(&cmd.target).await?,            "assertText" => sb.assert_text_visible(&cmd.value, &cmd.target).await?,            _ => println!("Unhandled command: {}", cmd.command),        }    }    sb.quit().await?;    Ok(())}

Supported command format#

The parser expects a simple HTML table with three cells per row:

<tr>  <td>command</td>  <td>target</td>  <td>value</td></tr>

Rows with fewer than three cells are ignored. The SeleniumIdeCommand struct exposes command, target, and value as String fields.

Common command mappings#

IDE command	`BaseCase` method
`open`	`open(url)`
`type`	`type_text(selector, text)`
`click`	`click(selector)`
`assertText`	`assert_text_visible(text, selector)`
`waitForElementPresent`	`wait_for_element_present(selector).await?`
`pause`	`tokio::time::sleep(...).await`

Limitations#

Warning

This parser targets the legacy Selenium IDE HTML format, not the modern .side JSON format.
Flow-control commands (if, while, storeEval) are not interpreted; map them to Rust control flow manually.
Variables and stored values are not automatically carried over; use Rust variables or the store_* helpers if available.