Do headless web browser need selenium WebDriver?

Question

I am trying to use headless web browser(such as headless chrome) for our selenium tests.Should I have to use selenium WebDriver(for python or c# bindings)?

Answer 1

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
import os

Before we set up a Chrome web driver instance, we have to create an Options object that allows us to specify how exactly we want to launch Chrome. Let’s tell it that we want the browser to launch headless and that the window size should be set to 1920x1080. We also need ChromeDriver to be able to run Chrome at all 

chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
chrome_options.add_argument("--window-size=1920x1080")

# download the chrome driver from https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloads and put it in the
# current directory
chrome_driver = os.getcwd() +"\\chromedriver.exe"

driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options, executable_path=chrome_driver)
driver.get("https://www.google.com")