Selenium working with Chrome, but not headless Chrome

Question

I\'ve developed a couple of Python scripts using Selenium and, at first, PhantomJS. While heading toward automated downloads, I switched for (headed) Firefox (which worked)

Answer 1

Headless Chrome does not support insecure certificates and hence, websites with insecure certificates does not open living it blank. You need to add capabilities as follow:

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

chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")

capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.CHROME.copy()
capabilities['acceptSslCerts'] = True 
capabilities['acceptInsecureCerts'] = True

driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options = chrome_options,executable_path='your path',desired_capabilities=capabilities)
driver.get("yourWebsite")

This will do the work.