how to close Python selenium webdriver window

Question

I have a python script that scraps data off from a website on an hourly basis. It is stored on the server at the moment and is working well as I am using task scheduler to schedule it to execute the script on an hourly basis.

I am using this code

driver.quit()

to quit the browser window

My problem to this that whenever I am not logging in to the server, it will start stacking up the webdriver window as somehow the driver.quit() function does not work when I am logging into the server. every morning when I came to work, I have tons of window to close from the server.

I tried to quit, close, dispose, but it doesn't help. What else I can try?

Does your code works with `quit()` when you execute manually with your console(terminal)? — Beomi, Mar 04 '17 at 02:44
yes it does. quit doesnt work when i am not logging in to the server — Kok chuan Lim, Mar 05 '17 at 14:18
It honestly sounds like an exception is being raised before `driver.quit()` is executed. Are you sure your code is fully completing without any exceptions? — crookedleaf, Mar 08 '17 at 18:15

score 47 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 27 '18 at 02:15

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In python using chromedriver, I quit Chrome processes with:

driver.close()

answered Jan 27 '18 at 02:15

jeanhuguesroy

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score 16 · Answer 2 · answered May 27 '20 at 16:23

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For Python and chromedriver I've found these two methods useful (mind the difference):

driver.close() - closes the browser active window.

driver.quit() - closes all browser windows and ends driver's session/process.

answered May 27 '20 at 16:23

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score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 26 '21 at 19:30

For anyone still finding this question relevant in 2021 (heck it is for me!).

For me driver.quit() definitely was the right method. The main issue was tests not being cleaned up properly, meaning driver.quit() was never called.

Make sure you run cleanup steps regardless of if the test crashes. e.g. in unittest use the tearDown or tearDownClass methods (setup the driver in setUp.
If you can't do that wrap whatever you're doing with the driver object in a try / catch and do the driver.quit() in the finally block.

Marc Steffen · Answer 4 · 2020-06-02T22:41:41.677

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Could'nt you scrape in headless mode? (example for chrome)

chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_argument('--headless')
chrome_options.headless = True
...
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options)
driver.create_options()

edited Jun 02 '20 at 22:41

answered Jun 02 '20 at 22:33

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Yes, but you still need to close. I'm actually here because I just realized this - I have scripts running headless firefox and the headless processes stay open, innocently loitering at first and eventually tanking your system under the oppressive weight of their legion. – Kyle Alm Oct 01 '20 at 09:57
Yes, true, but difficult to see what's wrong without his code. – Marc Steffen Nov 22 '20 at 20:45

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 05 '17 at 17:11

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I use linux command to close all. Here're two commands I ran after all scraping job is done:

pkill firefox
pkill Xcfb

answered Sep 05 '17 at 17:11

Guangmin Shen

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score -4 · Answer 6 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

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I think webDriver.Dispose() should work, It closes all browser windows. Here is a SO post about the 3 different ways to close a webdriver.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

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answered Mar 04 '17 at 04:46

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In python, all you get is `AttributeError: 'WebDriver' object has no attribute 'Dispose'` – jeremysprofile Mar 09 '19 at 00:11

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