Python, PhantomJS says I am not using headless?

Question

my code is:

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.PhantomJS(executable_path='driver/bin/phantomjs.exe')
driver.get("https://www.test.com")
print(driver.current_url)

It seems to run fine but before it runs I always get this error:

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

Why am I getting this error? I thought my PhantomJS was headless as it still works and no browser pops-up is this error save to ignore?

Answer 1

Selenium considers PhantomJS as deprecated, so you need to us either Chrome or Firefox in headless mode.

Here are the steps to use Chrome in headless mode:

1. download chrome driver from https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/getting-started
2. extract it to a folder
3. add this folder to your PATH environment variable (if you don't do it, you will have to use webdriver.Chrome('/your/path/to/chromedriver') in the code below instead of webdriver.Chrome())

Then use it like this:

from selenium import webdriver

# prepare the option for the chrome driver
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('headless')

# start chrome browser
browser = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)
browser.get('http://www.google.com/xhtml')
print(browser.current_url)
browser.quit()

More on how to use ChromeDriver
For the other options: here (also here and here)

Answer 2

In Selenium 3.8.1 PhantomJS marked as deprecated webdriver and recommend us to use either Chrome or Firefox in headless mode.