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Kok chuan Lim
Kok chuan Lim

Reputation: 373

how to close Python selenium webdriver window

I have a python script that scraps data off from a website on an hourly basis. It is stored on the server at the moment and is working well as I am using task scheduler to schedule it to execute the script on an hourly basis.

I am using this code

driver.quit()

to quit the browser window

My problem to this that whenever I am not logging in to the server, it will start stacking up the webdriver window as somehow the driver.quit() function does not work when I am logging into the server. every morning when I came to work, I have tons of window to close from the server.

I tried to quit, close, dispose, but it doesn't help. What else I can try?

Upvotes: 37

Views: 80679

Answers (7)

Rajendra Singh
Rajendra Singh

Reputation: 97

You can close browser by calling JavaScript close methods like so.

driver.execute_script("window.close();")

Upvotes: 0

OllyTheNinja
OllyTheNinja

Reputation: 566

For anyone still finding this question relevant in 2021 (heck it is for me!).

For me driver.quit() definitely was the right method. The main issue was tests not being cleaned up properly, meaning driver.quit() was never called.

  • Make sure you run cleanup steps regardless of if the test crashes. e.g. in unittest use the tearDown or tearDownClass methods (setup the driver in setUp.
  • If you can't do that wrap whatever you're doing with the driver object in a try / catch and do the driver.quit() in the finally block.

Upvotes: 3

Marc Steffen
Marc Steffen

Reputation: 133

Could'nt you scrape in headless mode? (example for chrome)

chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_argument('--headless')
chrome_options.headless = True
...
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options)
driver.create_options()

Upvotes: 2

tommystarlit
tommystarlit

Reputation: 181

For Python and chromedriver I've found these two methods useful (mind the difference):

driver.close() - closes the browser active window.

driver.quit() - closes all browser windows and ends driver's session/process.

Upvotes: 18

jeanhuguesroy
jeanhuguesroy

Reputation: 609

In python using chromedriver, I quit Chrome processes with:

driver.close()

Upvotes: 49

Guangmin Shen
Guangmin Shen

Reputation: 11

I use linux command to close all. Here're two commands I ran after all scraping job is done:

  • pkill firefox
  • pkill Xcfb

Upvotes: 0

Pike D.
Pike D.

Reputation: 691

I think webDriver.Dispose() should work, It closes all browser windows. Here is a SO post about the 3 different ways to close a webdriver.

Upvotes: -4

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