Headless automation with Nodejs Selenium Webdriver

Question

I am working with an automation tool which has to be deployed inside an ubuntu server, my wonder is if is possible to use chrome in a silent way with Selenium Webdriver.

Answer 1

To start Chrome in headless mode, simply call Options.headless(). Starting in headless mode currently also disables GPU acceleration. This is the code:

  var seleniumWebdriver = require('selenium-webdriver');
  var chrome    = require('selenium-webdriver/chrome');

  var options   = new chrome.Options().headless();

  var driver = new seleniumWebdriver.Builder()
    .forBrowser('chrome')
    .setChromeOptions(options)
    .build();

Note: For security, Chrome disables downloads by default when in headless mode. You may call setDownloadPath to re-enable downloads.