selenium-chromedriver

How do I pass options to the Selenium Chrome driver using Python?

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Found the chrome Options class in the Selenium source code. Usage to create a Chrome driver instance: from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options chrome_options = Options() chrome_options.add_argument(“–disable-extensions”) driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options)

Selenium Timed out receiving message from renderer

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Check for JS Runtime First verify you aren’t executing / eval()ing a lot of javascript. That can cause a timeout. Check Version Compatibility First, verify your versions of: Selenium JDK ChromeDriver Chrome are all compatible. Good luck doing this because there is no single place that documents it, AND selenium software isn’t smart enough to … Read more

Selenium: WebDriverException:Chrome failed to start: crashed as google-chrome is no longer running so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed

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Try to download HERE and use this latest chrome driver version: https://sites.google.com/chromium.org/driver/ Try this: from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options chrome_options = Options() chrome_options.add_argument(‘–headless’) chrome_options.add_argument(‘–no-sandbox’) chrome_options.add_argument(‘–disable-dev-shm-usage’) d = webdriver.Chrome(‘/home/<user>/chromedriver’,chrome_options=chrome_options) d.get(‘https://www.google.nl/’)

When running WebDriver with Chrome browser, getting message, “Only local connections are allowed” even though browser launches properly

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This is an informational message only. What the message is telling you is that the chromedriver executable will only accept connections from the local machine. Most driver implementations (the Chrome driver and the IE driver for sure) create a HTTP server. The language bindings (Java, Python, Ruby, .NET, etc.) all use a JSON-over-HTTP protocol to … Read more

Running Selenium with Headless Chrome Webdriver

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To run chrome-headless just add –headless via chrome_options.add_argument, i.e.: from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options chrome_options = Options() #chrome_options.add_argument(“–disable-extensions”) #chrome_options.add_argument(“–disable-gpu”) #chrome_options.add_argument(“–no-sandbox”) # linux only chrome_options.add_argument(“–headless”) # chrome_options.headless = True # also works driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options) start_url = “https://duckgo.com” driver.get(start_url) print(driver.page_source.encode(“utf-8”)) # b'<!DOCTYPE html><html xmlns=”http://www…. driver.quit() So my thought is that running it with … Read more

How to configure ChromeDriver to initiate Chrome browser in Headless mode through Selenium?

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It should look like this: from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options options = Options() options.add_argument(‘–headless’) options.add_argument(‘–disable-gpu’) # Last I checked this was necessary. driver = webdriver.Chrome(CHROMEDRIVER_PATH, chrome_options=options) This works for me using Python 3.6, I’m sure it’ll work for 2.7 too. Update 2018-10-26: These days you can just do this: from selenium import … Read more

Repository ‘http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease’ changed its ‘Suite’ value from ‘stable’ to ‘oldstable’

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I know you tried it with apt-get –allow-releaseinfo-change update but it worked for me. This is my command in the dockerfile: wget -q -O – https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add – \ && sh -c ‘echo “deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main” >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list’ \ && apt-get –allow-releaseinfo-change update \ && apt-get install -y google-chrome-unstable \ –no-install-recommends … Read more