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Gnougnou
Gnougnou

Reputation: 193

Selenium working with Chrome, but not headless Chrome

I've developed a couple of Python scripts using Selenium and, at first, PhantomJS. While heading toward automated downloads, I switched for (headed) Firefox (which worked) and then Chrome with the headless option so I won't have the browser opening in front of me.

My first script, which accesses a page and a couple of HTML elements, works perfectly with headless Chrome.

The second one, however, works only with headed Chrome. If I add the "headless" option, it doesn't work anymore. When I try to print the HTML in headless mode to see why it cannot find the HTML element I'm looking for, all I have is :

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head></head><body></body></html>

With the headed Chrome, I have a complete HTML printed. This is how I start my headless Chrome :

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("--ignore-certificate-errors") 
options.add_argument("headless") 
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)

Again, note that this works in another of my script. The only difference here is that I need to log in to access the page, but even then, why would it work with the head? My script is made to log in automatically anyway by filling the form.

Python : 3.6.1, Chrome : 60.0.3112.78 (64 bits), Selenium : 3.4.3

Any idea? Thanks.

** EDIT: Here is the beginning of the code**

url = 'https://10.11.227.21/tmui/'
driver.get(url + "login.jsp")

html_source = driver.page_source
print(html_source)

blocStatus = WebDriverWait(driver, TIMEOUT).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, "username")))
inputElement = driver.find_element_by_id("username")
inputElement.send_keys('actualLogin')
inputElement = driver.find_element_by_id("passwd")
inputElement.send_keys('actualPassword')
inputElement.submit()

Upvotes: 18

Views: 30528

Answers (7)

frank
frank

Reputation: 126

I had a same experience like you, and solved it by using xvfb and pyvirtualdisplay.

I use chromedrive=v2.3.1, chrome-browser=v60 and Selenium=3.4.3

In Headless chrome, some of script seems not to work as expected.

Please refer to vpassapera's comment in https://gist.github.com/addyosmani/5336747.

How about try it like below,

from pyvirtualdisplay import Display

display = Display(visible=0, size=(800, 600))
display.start()

# Do Not use headless chrome option
# options.add_argument('headless')

url = 'https://10.11.227.21/tmui/'
driver.get(url + "login.jsp")

html_source = driver.page_source
print(html_source)

blocStatus = WebDriverWait(driver,    TIMEOUT).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID, "username")))
inputElement = driver.find_element_by_id("username")
inputElement.send_keys('actualLogin')
inputElement = driver.find_element_by_id("passwd")
inputElement.send_keys('actualPassword')
inputElement.submit()

display.stop()

xvfb is required to use "pyvirtualdisplay"

$ sudo apt-get install -y xvfb

Upvotes: 11

wisbucky
wisbucky

Reputation: 38023

For my situation, headless did not work because I was behind a proxy. Apparently, Chrome is able to use the system proxy, but headless does not use the system proxy.

I simply needed to provide the proxy, then headless (as well as Chrome) worked.

options.add_argument('--proxy-server=http://myproxy:port')

Upvotes: 0

Alan Alby
Alan Alby

Reputation: 1

refer https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/4477 add below code

self.chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
self.chrome_options.add_argument("--window-size=1920,1080")
self.chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")
self.chrome_options.add_argument("--proxy-server='direct://'")
self.chrome_options.add_argument("--proxy-bypass-list=*")
self.chrome_options.add_argument("--start-maximized")
self.chrome_options.add_argument('--headless')
self.chrome_options.add_argument('--disable-gpu')
self.chrome_options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
self.chrome_options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
self.chrome_options.add_argument('--ignore-certificate-errors')
self.browser = webdriver.Chrome(options=self.chrome_options)

Upvotes: -1

HelloWorld123
HelloWorld123

Reputation: 89

For some if you remove the below, it would work. 

driver.fullscreen_window()

Upvotes: 0

lukashino
lukashino

Reputation: 63

I had the same issue and setting the window size in conftest.py solved it. My code snippet:

@pytest.fixture
def chrome_options(chrome_options, pytestconfig):
    if pytestconfig.getoption('headless'):
        chrome_options.add_argument('--headless')
        chrome_options.add_argument("window-size=1920,1080")
    else:
        chrome_options.add_argument("start-maximized");
    return chrome_options

Upvotes: 3

Suraj Regmi
Suraj Regmi

Reputation: 253

Headless Chrome does not support insecure certificates and hence, websites with insecure certificates does not open living it blank. You need to add capabilities as follow: 

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver import DesiredCapabilities
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")

capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.CHROME.copy()
capabilities['acceptSslCerts'] = True 
capabilities['acceptInsecureCerts'] = True

driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options = chrome_options,executable_path='your path',desired_capabilities=capabilities)
driver.get("yourWebsite")

This will do the work.

Upvotes: 7

mmichalik
mmichalik

Reputation: 62

Headless chrome may be faster on same machine than headed, try adding some wait before locating password element.

Upvotes: 0

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