Selenium testing without browser

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I use Selenium RC for testing. Now to perform a load test, I want to run parallel test cases. Is there any way to run them without opening a browser?

possible duplicate of [Is it possible to hide the browser in Selenium RC?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1418082/is-it-possible-to-hide-the-browser-in-selenium-rc) — Salvador Dali, Nov 20 '13 at 02:57

Stéphane Bruckert · Answer 1 · 2021-05-09T13:16:46.343

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Chrome now has a headless mode:

op = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
op.add_argument('headless')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=op)

edited May 09 '21 at 13:16

answered May 27 '14 at 20:09

Stéphane Bruckert

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this should be the answer – O.rka Jul 26 '16 at 22:44
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Simplest answers are usually the best! Thank you. – hod Nov 10 '17 at 02:52
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UserWarning: Selenium support for PhantomJS has been deprecated, please use headless versions of Chrome or Firefox instead warnings.warn('Selenium support for PhantomJS has been deprecated, please use headless ' – Tiffany F. Aug 22 '18 at 13:17
how can i use this if I additionally want to copy something to clipboard and then paste it? I tried it but it only works when the browser opens – basilisk Jun 04 '20 at 15:32

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited May 11 '19 at 05:50

To set up on Centos (do all installation as root)

Install pip Download https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py

python get-pip.py

Installing selenium If you have pip on your system, you can simply install or upgrade the Python bindings: pip install -U selenium

Alternately, you can download the source distribution from PyPI (e.g. selenium-2.53.1.tar.gz), unarchive it, and run:

python setup.py install

install the program: pyvirtualdisplay

pip install pyvirtualdisplay

yum install Xvfb libXfont Xorg

Then modify your script to add the bold lines within ** and **

**from pyvirtualdisplay import Display**
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select
from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException
from selenium.common.exceptions import NoAlertPresentException
import unittest, time, re

class SeleniumDemo(unittest.TestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        **self.display = Display(visible=0, size=(800, 600))
        self.display.start()**
        self.driver = webdriver.Firefox()
        self.driver.implicitly_wait(30)
        self.base_url = "http://www.soastastore.com/"
        self.verificationErrors = []
        self.accept_next_alert = True


    def tearDown(self):`enter code here`
        self.driver.quit()
        ***self.display.stop()***
        self.assertEqual([], self.verificationErrors)

score 7 · Answer 3 · edited May 24 '20 at 11:44

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Try this code:

op = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
op.add_argument('headless')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=op)

edited May 24 '20 at 11:44

Hamim Yasin

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answered Apr 06 '19 at 15:34

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score 7 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:09

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You can run Selenium headless, take a look at this question/answer: Is it possible to hide the browser in Selenium RC?

Especially for performance load tests, you should have a look at Apache JMeter.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:09

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I already tried Apache JMeter for load testing Of GWT apps. But it not quite successful. – Mohyt Sep 29 '11 at 12:16

score 6 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 10 '20 at 23:53

Since PhantomJS has been deprecated, using headless versions of Firefox would be a viable option.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options

options = Options()
options.add_argument("--headless")
driver = webdriver.Firefox(options=options)
driver.get('https://www.google.com/')

score 3 · Answer 6 · edited Nov 23 '17 at 08:53

Always follow the Documentation. Here is what selenium doc says. It provide a standalone jar.

Download the standalone jar. And run it with command
```
java -jar selenium-server-standalone.jar
```
Now you will see a stanalone server started.

Now set up your webdriver like below and rest part will be as it is.

driver = webdriver.Remote(command_executor='http://127.0.0.1:4444/wd/hub', desired_capabilities={'browserName': 'htmlunit', 'version': '2', 'javascriptEnabled': True})

Summary code will be like.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver = webdriver.Remote(command_executor='http://127.0.0.1:4444/wd/hub', 
desired_capabilities={'browserName': 'htmlunit', 'version': '2', 
'javascriptEnabled': True})
driver.get("http://www.python.org")
assert "Python" in driver.title
elem = driver.find_element_by_name("q")
elem.clear()
elem.send_keys("pycon")
elem.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
assert "No results found." not in driver.page_source
driver.close()

score 2 · Answer 7 · edited Feb 07 '19 at 10:19

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It is possible, but not with the standard firefox driver / chrome / etc.

You would need to install PhantomJS. Just assign your WebDriver to an instance of phantomJS driver:

driver = webdriver.PhantomJS()

If you run your code now, no browser window will be opened.

edited Feb 07 '19 at 10:19

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answered Feb 07 '19 at 10:15

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Plabon Dutta · Answer 8 · 2020-02-10T22:31:23.350

You can import Options if you don't want to open a web browser.

from selenium import webdriver   # for webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait  # for implicit and explict waits
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options  # for suppressing the browser

Then in the code:

option = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
option.add_argument('headless')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=option)

And continue with the rest of the program.

score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Sep 11 '21 at 12:10

requirements:

sudo apt-get install xvfb
pip install selenium
pip install PyVirtualDisplay

download chrome driver binary from below link and paste into drivers directory: https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloads

code:

from selenium import webdriver
from pyvirtualdisplay import Display

with Display(visible=False, size=(800, 600)):
    browser = webdriver.Chrome('drivers/chromedriver')
    browser.get('https://www.example.com')
    print(browser.page_source)
    browser.quit()

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