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 sched

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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()

Answer 4

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

• pkill firefox
• pkill Xcfb

Answer 5

In python using chromedriver, I quit Chrome processes with:

driver.close()