Disable images in Selenium Google ChromeDriver

Question

How does one disable images in Google chrome when using it through Selenium and c#?

I\'ve attempted 6 ways and none worked. I\'ve even tried the answer on this Stack

Answer 1

An easier approach would be solely:

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("headless","--blink-settings=imagesEnabled=false");

Answer 2

This is my solution

IWebDriver driver;
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.AddUserProfilePreference("profile.default_content_setting_values.images", 2);
driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

Answer 3

I found out simple solution. This idea referred from Python:Disable images in Selenium Google ChromeDriver

var service = ChromeDriverService.CreateDefaultService(@WebDriverPath);

var options = net ChromeOptions();
options.AddUserProfilePreference("profile.managed_default_content_settings.images", 2);
IWebDriver Driver = new ChromeDriver(service, options);

Answer 4

You should use --blink-settings instead of --disable-images by:

options.add_argument('--blink-settings=imagesEnabled=false')

which also works in headless mode. Setting profile doesn't work in headless mode. You can verify it by screenshot:

driver.get_screenshot_as_file('headless.png')

Note: I was using python with selenium, but I think it should be easy to transfer to c#.

Answer 5

I recommend that you create a new profile, customize this profile so that it does not load the images, and use this profile as a chromeOption to set up your driver.

See: this article

Answer 6

For your method 1-3, I don't see a Chrome switch called --disable-images listed here. So even if the code snippets are correct, they won't work no matter what. Where did you get that switch? Any references?

For the methods 4-6, I assume you got the idea from this chromdriver issue. I don't know if this {'profile.default_content_settings': {'images': 2}} is still valid or not, but you can give it a try with the following code (which was originally the answer to How to set Chrome preferences using Selenium Webdriver .NET binding?, answer provided by Martin Devillers).

public class ChromeOptionsWithPrefs: ChromeOptions {
    public Dictionary<string,object> prefs { get; set; }
}

public static void Initialize() {
    var options = new ChromeOptionsWithPrefs();
    options.prefs = new Dictionary<string, object> {
        { "profile.default_content_settings", new Dictionary<string, object>() { "images", 2 } }
    };
    var driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
}