Revisions to How to run headless Chrome with Selenium in Python?

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To run chrome-headless just add --headless via chrome_options.add_argument, e.g.:

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=new") # for Chrome >= 109
# 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 headless chrome would make my script faster.

Try using chrome options like --disable-extensions or --disable-gpu and benchmark it, but I wouldn't count with substantial improvement.

References: headless-chrome

To run chrome-headless just add --headless via chrome_options.add_argument, e.g.:

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=new") # for Chrome >= 109
# 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 headless chrome would make my script faster.

Try using chrome options like --disable-extensions or --disable-gpu and benchmark it, but I wouldn't count with substantial improvement.

References: headless-chrome

To run chrome-headless just add --headless via chrome_options.add_argument, e.g.:

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=new") # for Chrome >= 109
# 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 headless chrome would make my script faster.

Try using chrome options like --disable-extensions or --disable-gpu and benchmark it, but I wouldn't count with substantial improvement.

References: headless-chrome

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edited Sep 8, 2023 at 2:53

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To run chrome-headless just add --headless via chrome_options.add_argument, e.g.:

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=new") # newfor 2023Chrome >= 109
# 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 headless chrome would make my script faster.

Try using chrome options like --disable-extensions or --disable-gpu and benchmark it, but I wouldn't count with substantial improvement.

References: headless-chrome

To run chrome-headless just add --headless via chrome_options.add_argument, e.g.:

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=new") # new 2023
# 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 headless chrome would make my script faster.

Try using chrome options like --disable-extensions or --disable-gpu and benchmark it, but I wouldn't count with substantial improvement.

References: headless-chrome

To run chrome-headless just add --headless via chrome_options.add_argument, e.g.:

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=new") # for Chrome >= 109
# 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 headless chrome would make my script faster.

Try using chrome options like --disable-extensions or --disable-gpu and benchmark it, but I wouldn't count with substantial improvement.

References: headless-chrome

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edited Sep 8, 2023 at 2:40

Pedro Lobito

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To run chrome-headless just add --headless via chrome_options.add_argument, e.g.:

from selenium import webdriver 
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

chrome_options = Options()
#chrome_options# chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")
#chrome_options# chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-gpu")
#chrome_options# chrome_options.add_argument("--no-sandbox") # linux only
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless=new") # new 2023
# 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 headless chrome would make my script faster.

Try using chrome options like --disable-extensions or --disable-gpu and benchmark it, but I wouldn't count with substantial improvement.

References: headless-chrome

To run chrome-headless just add --headless via chrome_options.add_argument, e.g.:

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 headless chrome would make my script faster.

Try using chrome options like --disable-extensions or --disable-gpu and benchmark it, but I wouldn't count with substantial improvement.

References: headless-chrome

To run chrome-headless just add --headless via chrome_options.add_argument, e.g.:

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=new") # new 2023
# 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()