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BirdBud
BirdBud

Reputation: 193

How to Get a Headless Browser for Selenium (Firefox)?

So recently I was looking into trying to get a headless browser for Selenium for web scraping and I came upon this solution on multiple websites

from selenium import webdriver

geckodriver = 'C:UsersgraysonDownloadsgeckodriver.exe'

headOption = webdriver.FirefoxOptions()
HeadOption.setheadless()

browser = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=geckodriver, firefox_options=headOption)

browser.get('https://www.duckduckgo.com')

browser.save_screenshot('C:UsersgraysonDownloadsheadless_firefox_test.png')

browser.quit()

However I was still getting errors while trying to use the properties and arguments in this code.From what I can tell they seem to be outdated. What is the way to solve this problem?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6313

Answers (2)

BirdBud
BirdBud

Reputation: 193

from selenium import webdriver

geckodriver = 'C:UsersgraysonDownloadsgeckodriver.exe'

headOption = webdriver.FirefoxOptions()
headOption.**add_argument('-headless')**

browser = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=geckodriver, **options**=headOption)

browser.get('https://www.duckduckgo.com')

browser.save_screenshot('C:UsersgraysonDownloadsheadless_firefox_test.png')

browser.quit()

The asterisk mark the differences. Basically Selenium doesn't like the '.setheadless' property anymore and has replaced the "firefox_options" argument with just "options"

I hope this was helpful

Upvotes: 3

PDHide
PDHide

Reputation: 19989

Don't copy paste code from the net with out understanding what it does.

firefox option doesn't have any method like setHeadless, but has a property called headless

headOption = webdriver.FirefoxOptions()
headOption.headless = True
driver = webdriver.Firefox(options=headOption)

you can set headless like this or by passing argument

headOption = webdriver.FirefoxOptions()
headOption.add_argument("--headless")
driver = webdriver.Firefox(options=headOption)

Both does the same thing , headless property pass the argument --headless under the hood

Upvotes: 4

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