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jcoder
jcoder

Reputation: 237

Getting '403 Forbidden' error when using headless chrome with python selenium

When using regualr chromedriver, my tests run without any issues and I get the test results. When I am trying to launch headless chrome with python and selenium, I get a '403 Forbidden' error on the screenshot and selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: on the console. I passed all these arguments and still get the same result :

chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
chrome_options.add_argument('--window-size=1920,1080')
chrome_options.add_argument('--headless')
chrome_options.add_argument('--disable-gpu')
chrome_options.add_argument('--allow-running-insecure-content')
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options)

I also tried the from fake_headers import Headers but the issue still persists

Upvotes: 3

Views: 5411

Answers (3)

Antoniojbueno
Antoniojbueno

Reputation: 36

Yes you had a "Useragent" problem but it is advisable to use display() for web pages that have anti-bot protection, although this solution is temporary. My main language is Spanish

Upvotes: 0

jcoder
jcoder

Reputation: 237

I found another solution which is similar to the first answer. The explanation for the issue can be found here. This took care of the issue for me.

chrome_options = Options()
user_agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.50 Safari/537.36'
chrome_options.add_argument(f'user-agent={user_agent}')
chrome_options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
chrome_options.add_argument('--window-size=1920,1080')
chrome_options.add_argument('--headless')
chrome_options.add_argument('--disable-gpu')
chrome_options.add_argument('--allow-running-insecure-content')
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options)

Upvotes: 6

Antoniojbueno
Antoniojbueno

Reputation: 36

#!/usr/bin/python3
#try this 
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium import webdriver
import time,os
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from pyvirtualdisplay import Display
from fake_useragent import UserAgent
def web(url):
    display = Display(visible=0, size=(1920, 1080)) 
    display.start()
    ua = UserAgent()
    userAgent = ua.chrome
    chrome_options = Options()
    chrome_options.add_experimental_option("excludeSwitches", ["enable-automation"])
    chrome_options.add_experimental_option('useAutomationExtension', False)
    chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-blink-features=AutomationControlled")
    chrome_options.add_argument(f'user-agent={userAgent}')
    driver = webdriver.Chrome (options = chrome_options)
    driver.get(url)

Upvotes: 2

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