How to prevent css and img download in selenium

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Is it possible to prevent img and css download in phantomjs webdriver(selenium)?

check this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7157994/do-not-want-images-to-load-and-css-to-render-on-firefox — Tarek Hallak, Jul 24 '13 at 09:38
You can make selenium go through a proxy, that proxy can be as simple as a small python script that you can determine whether to fetch/return a resource or block it with you custom heuristics. — Pykler, Dec 19 '13 at 17:41

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 18 '13 at 13:20

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If you check phantomjs API, an option can be passed as: --load-images=[true|false] load all inlined images (default is true). Also accepted: [yes|no].

However, you cannot block CSS download AFAIK.

answered Dec 18 '13 at 13:20

Rafael I

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 20 '15 at 14:47

If you are using HtmlUnitDriver on Java, you can use following method to modify the webclient options:

 @Override
    protected WebClient modifyWebClient(WebClient client) {
        client.getOptions().setCssEnabled(false);
        return client;
    }

hope this helps

How to prevent css and img download in selenium

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