Python: Disable images in Selenium Google ChromeDriver

Question

I spend a lot of time searching about this. At the end of the day I combined a number of answers and it works. I share my answer and I'll appreciate it if anyone edits it or provides us with an easier way to do this.

1- The answer in Disable images in Selenium Google ChromeDriver works in Java. So we should do the same thing in Python:

opt = webdriver.ChromeOptions() opt.add_extension("Block-image_v1.1.crx") browser = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=opt) 

2- But downloading "Block-image_v1.1.crx" is a little bit tricky, because there is no direct way to do that. For this purpose, instead of going to: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/block-image/pehaalcefcjfccdpbckoablngfkfgfgj

you can go to http://chrome-extension-downloader.com/ and paste the extension url there to be able to download the extension file.

3- Then you will be able to use the above mentioned code with the path to the extension file that you have downloaded.

Answer 1

Here is another way to disable images:

from selenium import webdriver  chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() prefs = {"profile.managed_default_content_settings.images": 2} chrome_options.add_experimental_option("prefs", prefs) driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options) 

I found it below:

http://nullege.com/codes/show/src@o@s@[email protected]/56/selenium.webdriver.ChromeOptions.add_experimental_option

Answer 2

Java: With this Chrome nor Firefox would load images. The syntax is different but the strings on the parameters are the same.

    chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();     HashMap<String, Object> images = new HashMap<String, Object>();     images.put("images", 2);     HashMap<String, Object> prefs = new HashMap<String, Object>();     prefs.put("profile.default_content_setting_values", images);     chromeOptions.setExperimentalOption("prefs", prefs);     driver=new ChromeDriver(chromeOptions);      firefoxOpt = new FirefoxOptions();     FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile();     profile.setPreference("permissions.default.image", 2);     firefoxOpt.setProfile(profile);