CrossBrowserTesting API

• Run Live Tests: Take Snapshots, Record Videos, Record Network Packet Captures, and more.

• Retrieve Live Test results.

• Selenium Tests: Take Snapshots, Record Videos, Record Network Packet Captures, and more.

• Retrieve Selenium Test results.

• Run Automated Screenshot Tests: Repeat full tests, Retake a single screenshot.

• Retrieve Screenshot Test results.

• Get Screenshot Comparison results.

The base URL for API calls is:

All requests are sent over a secure HTTPS connection.

Users must authenticate via Basic authentication for every API request using their email/username and authkey for password.

Authentication can be achieved by passing the credentials in the URL, like:

https://{username}:{authkey}@crossbrowsertesting.com/api/v3/screenshots

Or, using a language implementation like cURL:

curl --user {username}:{authkey} https://crossbrowsertesting.com/api/v3/livetests

• API Documentation Version 3.0 - Live Tests

• API Documentation Version 3.0 - Selenium Tests

• API Documentation Version 3.0 - Screenshots

• API Documentation Version 3.0 - Screenshot Comparisons

• API Documentation Version 3.0 - Local Connections (Tunnels)

• API Documentation Version 3.0 - Record & Replay

The CrossBrowserTesting API is defined using OpenAPI (Swagger) JSON files. These files can be used with multiple tools and imported into applications like SoapUI or Swagger Inspector which tells the tools everything about the API and how to use it.

• Livetests.json

• Selenium.json

• Screenshots.json

• Screenshot-Comparisons.json

• Tunnels.json

Some cURL examples would look like the following.

This will run a Live Test on a Mac 10.11 using Safari 9 at 1024×768 pixels:

This will get your Selenium Test History:

This will run a Screenshot Test on Mac 10.11 using Safari 9 at 1024×768 pixels and Windows 10 using Edge 20 at 800×600 pixels:

CrossBrowserTesting API Sample Scripts on GitHub