Fetch data from pytest command line arguments like browserName env etc

This video will explain how to
fetch the pytest command line parameters and use in selenium python framework.
We will parse the parameters from the command line and fetch the values.
This is mostly used when we want to run our tests from jenkins or azure dev ops pipeline, where the browserName environment etc should be dynamic.

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[iamvalsky]

Getting :
ERROR: usage: pytest [options] [file_or_dir] [file_or_dir] [...]
pytest: error: unrecognized arguments: --browser chrome
inifile: None

[venkateshr]

Hi, My pytest can't collect the Browser when i run my test how to i fix this plz reply?(it's showing collect 0 items ) ☹☹

[arun]

Hi, Can you please add some more details and explain more on "request.cls", "request.config" and "request.config.getoption" objects. In my automation code they are not adding the "addoption" but they are checking like below.
if hasattr(request.config, "result_folder"):
result_dir =

[memisen]

can you please explain how can we read config from a config file.config file to be passed from command line.

[arun]

Also this code not able to find in github, please mention the correct path.

[Bipulku]

One of the best Tutorial... Thanks a lot...

[kevinlao]

It looks like your github projects are marked as private. Both github links go to a 404