How to hide Firefox window (Selenium WebDriver) in python test

Question

I have a python test and I want to run it without opening the firefox

I want to hide it so how can I do this ?

any help ?

"Python test" is a bit unclear. You mean you want to run a site UI test using selenium? In that case, you can use PhantomJS (with selenium as well), it is a browser running in background without any kind of graphical interface and, obviously, windows. — Andrew Che, Mar 16 '17 at 09:10

score 23 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 11 '18 at 00:12

# pip install selenium
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options

options = Options()
options.add_argument('--headless')

driver = webdriver.Firefox(options=options)
driver.get('https://www.google.com/doodles')

print('Title: "{}"'.format(driver.title))
driver.quit()

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 16 '17 at 09:14

4

You can try to set negative window position to hide browser:

driver.set_window_position(-3000, 0) # driver.set_window_position(0, 0) to get it back

or try PhantomJS headless browser, that allow to run UI tests without displaying browser window

answered Mar 16 '17 at 09:14

Andersson

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yes I need to runit backgroud so I prefer to use PhantomJS – munia ali Mar 16 '17 at 09:57
how can I use PhantomJS ? should I change python code to use it ? should I import sth ? – munia ali Mar 16 '17 at 09:57
Download binary, put it in your `Python` root folder and define your `driver` as `driver=webdriver.PhantomJS()` – Andersson Mar 16 '17 at 10:00
no, nothing to import additionally. But note that `PhantomJS` has a lot of bugs, so it works not so good as `Firefox` or `Chrome`... – Andersson Mar 16 '17 at 10:13

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

Have a look at this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/6300672/2929488

#!/usr/bin/env python

from pyvirtualdisplay import Display
from selenium import webdriver

display = Display(visible=0, size=(800, 600))
display.start()

# now Firefox will run in a virtual display. 
# you will not see the browser.
browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get('http://www.google.com')
print browser.title
browser.quit()

display.stop()

How to hide Firefox window (Selenium WebDriver) in python test

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