Questions tagged [firefox-headless]
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How to make Firefox headless programmatically in Selenium with Python?
I am running this code with python, selenium, and firefox but still get 'head' version of firefox:
binary = FirefoxBinary('C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe',…
Tintinabulator Zea
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Unable to invoke firefox headless
I would like to know why i'm getting the following error message and how can i fix it:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "teste.py", line 30, in <\module>
main()
File "teste.py", line 24, in main
driver =…
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How to set selenium webdriver from headless mode to normal mode within the same session?
Is it possible after setting selenium webdriver to a headless mode set it back to a normal mode?
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options
options = Options()
options.headless = True
driver =…
Mykola Zotko
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Firefox headless not working within Docker as non-root user
As the title says, I'm having trouble running Firefox in headless mode inside a Docker container as a non-root user. Consider the following Dockerfile, built with docker build -t firefox .
FROM python:3.8-buster
RUN apt-get update -qq \
&&…
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Mozilla Firefox Headless Screenshot not working for local HTML files
I'm unable to generate a screenshot of a local HTML file using Firefox's (v60.9.0) headless mode
Here's the command I'm using:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -P AJ --screenshot test.png "file:///C:/html_export.html"
I've tried…
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Selenium Firefox headless returns different results
When i scrape page that contains products with usage of headless option i get different results.
For the same question one time i get results that are not sorted, and another time with proper sorted order.
Selenium firefox browser:
firefox_options =…
Zaraki Kenpachi
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selenium.common.exceptions.InvalidSessionIdException using GeckoDriver Selenium Firefox in headless mode through Python
I am tryin to use python an selenium to automate some cases on firefox headless mode. I think, I did every settings that I need but still webdrvier is not initialized.
My problem is getting the exception approximately 30-60 sec after executing my…
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urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPConnectionPool(host='localhost', port=59587): Max retries exceeded with url using Selenium GeckoDriver Firefox
At dawn my code was working perfectly, but today when I woke up it is no longer working, and I didn't change any line of code, I also checked if Firefox updated, and no, it didn't, and I have no idea what maybe, I've been reading the urllib…
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Handling headless mode in different browsers using Selenium Python client
I am currently working on a python (3.7) CLI program that uses Selenium and will be used by a diverse group of people.
The problem I ran into was the following:
For setting options like "headless" in Chrome I use
from selenium import webdriver
from…
zebo
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AttributeError: 'Options' object has no attribute 'binary' error invoking Headless Firefox using GeckoDriver through Selenium
options = FirefoxOptions()
options.add_argument("--headless")
driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_options=options, executable_path='/Users/toprak/Desktop/geckodriver')
driver.get("https://twitter.com/login?lang=en")
When I try to run my code, I…
Xia
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Opening a local file with local references with puppeteer-firefox
This is a similar question to Opening local html file using puppeteer, except that that one is using regular Puppeteer (headless Chrome) and this one is using the Firefox version, and I care about references to other local files.
I'm trying to open…
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python proxy in selenium firefox headless not working
I am using Ubuntu Server 17.04.
I am trying to set my proxy into selenium. But it's not working. I am using proxy from https://stormproxies.com/. Basically only the ip i allowed it will be allowed to have proxy and then i have to use the ip that…
Omega
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Embedding headless browser inside Spring Boot application?
For my Spring Boot application I need to be able to, in response to a request (HTTP request to a REST API) launch a headless browser, render some website (HTML+CSS+JS), perform some analysis and get the response back.
Previously I had built a…
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Unable to run Firefox in headless mode
I am trying to run a Python + Selenium script in headless mode with Firefox using Xvfb but I am getting errors. There is not much documents or guides available for Xvfb to troubleshoot the issue so looking for assistance here.
Environment info:
OS:…
Bill Clinton J
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Webdriver - Can't use headless mode in Firefox when using preferences
I want to launch Firefox headlessly through Selenium, but I can't seem to find a way to do so and keep my preferences at the same time.
from selenium import webdriver;
from selenium.webdriver import Firefox;
cProfile =…
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