Headless automation with Nodejs Selenium Webdriver

Question

I am working with an automation tool which has to be deployed inside an ubuntu server, my wonder is if is possible to use chrome in a silent way with Selenium Webdriver.

I've tried the following code so far, but it keeps opening the browser (I'm doing the tests in a Windows 10):

    var webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver'),         chrome    = require('selenium-webdriver/chrome')         By        = webdriver.By,         until     = webdriver.until,         options   = new chrome.Options();         options.addArguments('--headless');     var path = require('chromedriver').path;     var service = new chrome.ServiceBuilder(path).build();         chrome.setDefaultService(service);     var driver = new webdriver.Builder().forBrowser('chrome').withCapabilities(options.toCapabilities()).build();  driver.get('https://www.google.com'); 

Note that the addArguments('--headless') is the parameter that should make the navigation silent, but apparently it's not working or I am missing something I am not aware of.

If there is something I am missing, please tell me because I don't know if what I want to do is possible, as It is the frist time I work with this kind of technology.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Updated answer circa FEB-2018.

Referencing the Selenium Webdriver NodeJS Examples (commit 5bf50c4)

const chrome = require('selenium-webdriver/chrome'); const firefox = require('selenium-webdriver/firefox'); const {Builder, By, Key, until} = require('selenium-webdriver');  const screen = {   width: 640,   height: 480 };  let driver = new Builder()     .forBrowser('chrome')     .setChromeOptions(new chrome.Options().headless().windowSize(screen))     .setFirefoxOptions(new firefox.Options().headless().windowSize(screen))     .build(); 

Headless Chrome available since major version 59.0 APR-2017

Headless Firefox available since major version 56.0 SEP-2017

Answer 2

Try this one:

var webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver'),     chrome    = require('selenium-webdriver/chrome')     By        = webdriver.By,     until     = webdriver.until,     options   = new chrome.Options();     options.addArguments('headless'); // note: without dashes     options.addArguments('disable-gpu') var path = require('chromedriver').path; var service = new chrome.ServiceBuilder(path).build();     chrome.setDefaultService(service); var driver = new webdriver.Builder()     .forBrowser('chrome')     .withCapabilities(webdriver.Capabilities.chrome())      .setChromeOptions(options)                         // note this     .build();  driver.get('https://www.google.com');