BROWSERSTACK_LOCAL_IDENTIFIER Support

[sachatt]

Wondering how we can set the BROWSERSTACK_LOCAL_IDENTIFIER as it seems to be unsupported. This would hopefully allow us integrate github actions as specified https://www.browserstack.com/docs/automate/selenium/github-actions.

[bs-ashwanipathak]

The BROWSERSTACK_LOCAL_IDENTIFIER variable will be set during BrowserStack Local binary initialisation command and then the same can be set with the system environment variable to be accessible in the test code.

[sachatt]

Do you have an example of this ? The only way I see to set this, is to grab if from the printout, however It does not seem to be exported.

Thanks a lot for the help!

[sachatt]

Do you have any advice of where we can fetch these sort of outputs (i.e. build id, etc.) without having to parse the output of the command ?

[rohit-y180]

you can get the details from the dashboard.
Alternatively, you can use the APIs mentioned in this documentation: https://www.browserstack.com/docs/automate/api-reference/selenium/introduction

[sachatt]

Yes for sure, but if I am trying to automate this. What is the best way to capture the build id details ? Are they being saved, exported to a file or only printed in the console