using selenium without browser screen - python windows

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i use selenium for instagram appicatin. i wonder there is any way to run selenium without browser opening in windows? there is some solution in linux like install Xvfb but i don't see any solution for windows!

jizhihaoSAMA · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-15 13:19:37Z

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Do you mean that --headless?

You can do some operations without opening Chrome if you have chrome-driver. Here is how to set headless:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
chromeoption = Options()
chromeoption.add_argument('--headless')
browser = webdriver.Chrome(options=chromeoption)

# Then it is your work.
browser.get(url="xxx")

answered Mar 15, 2020 at 13:19

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Sht Over a year ago

In order to use this code, it is obligatory to download the driver? Or does exist the way to use selenium without a driver? (I know collab version)

jizhihaoSAMA Over a year ago

@shorenatevzadze No, you must download the driver AFAIK. The driver provide the API to make sure user could operate the browser.

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