Disable CSS and image in Selenium Chromedriver, Python

Question

I want to disable CSS and images in Selenium with Chromedriver all done in Python. My current code looks like this:

from selenium import webdriver
chrome_path = r"/Folder/chromedriver"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_path)

driver.get("https://www.url.com")

All works and it loads the page, but I want to speed it up and only load the Dom tree and javascripts, because I need this to click a button.

Someone else asked this question and got this answer:

chromeOptions = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
prefs = {"profile.managed_default_content_settings.images":2}
chromeOptions.add_experimental_option("prefs",prefs)
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chromeOptions)

However this doesn't work because I guess it doesn't find the driver. As far as the images go I really don't have an idea to stop loading them.

Try this: stackoverflow.com/questions/22685755/…

coltrane25
– coltrane25

2018-05-08 20:46:15 +00:00
Commented May 8, 2018 at 20:46 — coltrane25
– coltrane25, Commented May 8, 2018 at 20:46

mgc · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-08 19:36:55Z

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I guess you just forgot to specify the chrome path (in your chrome_path variable) in the second snippet (and in the first snippet your aren't using your chrome options but your are specifying the chrome path).
You should try to specify them both when creating the webdriver.Chrome instance with something like :

from selenium import webdriver

chrome_path = r"/Folder/chromedriver"

chromeOptions = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
prefs = {"profile.managed_default_content_settings.images":2}
chromeOptions.add_experimental_option("prefs",prefs)

driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_path, chrome_options=chromeOptions)
driver.get("https://www.url.com")

answered May 8, 2018 at 19:36

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2 Comments

Alex M. Over a year ago

Perfect, yes that was the mistake. Any ideas about the css? I don't want to disable css, I want to not download it to make the page refresh faster

softmarshmallow Over a year ago

Yeah what about css?

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