To run chrome-headless just add --headless
via chrome_options.add_argument
, i.e.:
from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options chrome_options = Options() #chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-extensions") #chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-gpu") #chrome_options.add_argument("--no-sandbox") # linux only chrome_options.add_argument("--headless") # chrome_options.headless = True # also works driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options) start_url = "https://duckgo.com" driver.get(start_url) print(driver.page_source.encode("utf-8")) driver.quit() # b'<!DOCTYPE html><html xmlns="http://www....
So my thought is that running it with headless chrome would make my script faster.
Try using chrome options like --disable-extensions
or --disable-gpu
and benchmark it, but I wouldn’t count with much improvement.
References: headless-chrome
Note: As of today, when running chrome headless on Windows., you should include the
--disable-gpu
flag See crbug.com/737678