Running Selenium with Headless Chrome Webdriver

To run chrome-headless just add –headless via chrome_options.add_argument, i.e.: 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

Where does Chrome store cookies?

The answer is due to the fact that Google Chrome uses an SQLite file to save cookies. It resides under: inside Cookies file. (which is an SQLite database file) So it’s not a file stored on hard drive but a row in an SQLite database file which can be read by a third party program such as: SQLite Database Browser EDIT: Thanks … Read more

SBOX_FATAL_MEMORY_EXCEEDED error shown when Chromedriver turned 1800-1900 pages using Selenium

This error… …implies that there is a huge memory consumption issue in Chrome that cause tabs to crash with SBOX_FATAL_MEMORY_EXCEEDED error. Deep Dive As per the article SBOX FATAL MEMORY EXCEEDED constantly and chrome is using large amounts of memory this issue of Chrome consuming huge memory is observed with all of the following instances: Google Chrome … Read more