How to hide Chrome Driver in python?

Question

Though I knew people asked this question but I didn't find suitable answer so I asked again. I used PhantomJS to scrape web site, but it is very slow on Mac, so I want to tru Chrome but Chrome show browser that is is bad, can I hide it? I tried code as below, that still show a small browser window..

browser = webdriver.Chrome()
browser.set_window_position(0, 0)
browser.set_window_size(0, 0)

Answer 1

Google announced in 4/2017 you can run in headless.

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/headless-chrome

chrome_options = Options()
# Chrome v75 and lower:
# chrome_options.add_argument("--headless") 
# Chrome v 76 and above (v76 released July 30th 2019):
chrome_options.headless = True

chrome_options.binary_location = '/Applications/Google Chrome   Canary.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome Canary'  
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=os.path.abspath(“chromedriver"),   chrome_options=chrome_options)

Few things you should make sure

• If using Mac/Linux then chrome version should be minimum 59
• If using Windows then chrome version should be minimum 60
• Use the latest chromedriver as well to make sure you don't have compatibility issue

Answer 2

REF: how-could-i-start-a-selenium-browserlike-firefox-minimized

You can move browser window over the monitor, like this:

driver.set_window_position(-10000,0)

Answer 3

Try This!

https://beomi.github.io/2017/09/28/HowToMakeWebCrawler-Headless-Chrome/

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('headless')
options.add_argument('window-size=1920x1080')
options.add_argument("disable-gpu")
# OR options.add_argument("--disable-gpu")

driver = webdriver.Chrome('chromedriver', chrome_options=options)