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Tag: selenium-chromedriver

How to configure ChromeDriver to initiate Chrome browser in Headless mode through Selenium?

I’m working on a python script to web-scrape and have gone down the path of using Chromedriver as one of the packages. I would like this to operate in the background without any pop-up windows. I’m using the option ‘headless’ on chromedriver and it seems to do the job in terms of not showing the browser window, however, I still

Run Multiple Instances of ChromeDriver

Using selenium and python I have several tests that need to run in parallel. To avoid using the same browser I added the parameter of using a specific profile directory and user data (see below). The problem is that I cannot run them simultaneously, one test needs to wait for the other to finish. Otherwise I get the following error

Can a website detect when you are using Selenium with chromedriver?

I’ve been testing out Selenium with Chromedriver and I noticed that some pages can detect that you’re using Selenium even though there’s no automation at all. Even when I’m just browsing manually just using Chrome through Selenium and Xephyr I often get a page saying that suspicious activity was detected. I’ve checked my user agent, and my browser fingerprint, and

Error message: “‘chromedriver’ executable needs to be available in the path”

I am using selenium with python and have downloaded the chromedriver for my windows computer from this site: http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=2.15/ After downloading the zip file, I unpacked the zip file to my downloads folder. Then I put the path to the executable binary (C:UsersmichaelDownloadschromedriver_win32) into the Environment Variable “Path”. However, when I run the following code: … I keep getting the

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