I am working on a project with selenium to scrape the data, but I don't want the browser to open and pop up. I just wanted to hide the browser and also not to display it in the taskbar also...
Some also suggested to use phantomJS but I didn't get them. What to do now ...
If you're using Chrome you can just set the headless argument like so:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
driver_exe = 'chromedriver'
options = Options()
options.add_argument("--headless")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(driver_exe, options=options)
To hide the browser while executing tests using Selenium's python you can use the minimize_window() method which eventually minimizes/pushes the Chrome Browsing Context effectively to the background using the following solution:
from selenium import webdriver
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("--start-maximized")
options.add_experimental_option("excludeSwitches", ["enable-automation"])
options.add_experimental_option('useAutomationExtension', False)
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options, executable_path=r'C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\chromedriver.exe')
driver.get('https://www.google.co.in')
driver.minimize_window()
As an alternative you can use the headless attribute to configure ChromeDriver to initiate google-chrome browser in Headless mode using Selenium and you can find a couple of relevant discussions in:
For chrome you could pass in the --headless parameter.
Alternatively you could let selenium work on a virtual display like this:
from selenium import webdriver
from xvfbwrapper import Xvfb
display = Xvfb()
display.start()
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('http://www.stackoverflow.com')
print(driver.title)
driver.quit()
display.stop()
The latter has worked for me quite well.
If you're using Firefox, try this:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options
driver_exe = 'path/to/firefoxdriver'
options = Options()
options.add_argument("--headless")
driver = webdriver.Firefox(driver_exe, options=options)
similar to what @Meshi answered in case of Chrome
if you want to hide chrome or selenium driver there is a library pyautogui
import pyautogui
window = [ x for x in pyautogui.getAllWindows()]
by this, you are getting all window title now you need to find your window
for i in window:
if 'Google Chrome' in i.title:
i.hide()
or you can play with your driver title also
