Run Selenium in Chrome invisibly (headless)

Question

I’m doing a program in Python 3.8 using Selenium and Chromedrive, to access a website through Google Chrome. When it is time to run, the program opens two windows, one of Google Chrome and another prompt. However, I want this access to be done invisibly, without open any windows other than Python.

My code goes something like this:

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome()

driver.get("https://google.com")

How do I make the process invisible to the user? If I have to install a library, which Python folder do I put it in? What is the command?

The program will run on windows 32.

Thanks in advance, I really need this help.

Answer 1

To not display the browser, you need to create a ChromeOptions and add the argument --headless.

You will not need to install any library because the ChromeOptions is in the webdriver of selenium, library you are already using.

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Creating the ChromeOptions and the option headless:

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("--headless")

Now with the variable options ready, you need to send it the moment you instantiate the Chrome driver:

driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)

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Your code will look like this:

from selenium import webdriver

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("--headless")

driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)
driver.get("https://google.com")

#Restante do código

driver.quit()