pyvirtualdisplay

I have a selenium test which I am trying to run Headlessly on my ubuntu server. It uses pyvirtualdisplay and xephyr. Though the script is running fine in my local system, it hangs when I run it in the server. I have tried to clear memory and restarting the server. But no luck. The script looks something like this : from selenium import webdriver from pyvirtualdisplay import Display display = Display(visible=0, size=(1366, 768)) display.start() driver = webdriver.Firefox() driver.set_window_size(1366, 768) driver.get ("http://www.google.com/") Any help? Okay, finally I got through it. sudo apt

I have written a web scraper for a mate to save him time at work. It is written in Python , using Selenium and opening a Firefox browser. I have written this code myself on a Linux machine I use PyVirtualDisplay so Firefox doesn't actually open and disturb my work. How can I make it run within a virtual display on a Windows PC? The reason you can not run PyVirtualDisplay on Windows is that PyVirtualDisplay uses Xvfb as it's display and Xvfb is a headless display server for the X Window System, Windows does not use the X Window System. not recommended So... what you can do if you insist on

I'm trying to setup a display but it's telling me No such file or directory . Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/www/envs/venv/proj/scripts/my_file.py", line 44, in click display = Display(visible=0, size=(800,600)) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pyvirtualdisplay/display.py", line 33, in __init__ self._obj = self.display_class( File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pyvirtualdisplay/display.py", line 51, in display_class cls.check_installed() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pyvirtualdisplay/xvfb.py", line 38, in check_installed ubuntu_package=PACKAGE).check_installed(

I have a working script that logs into a site using selenium like this: script.py from pyvirtualdisplay import Display from selenium import webdriver display = Display(visible=0, size=(1024, 768)) display.start() browser = webdriver.Firefox() actions = webdriver.ActionChains(browser) browser.get('some_url_I_need') content = browser.find_element_by_id('content') # Error on this line running that script on an amazon ubuntu box through ssh where I installed firefox the following way: sudo apt-get install firefox The error I get is: selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchElementException: Message: u