How to hide Chromedriver console window?

Question

I have a simple Python script which uses selenium and webdriver to open up Facebook in a Chrome window and log in automatically. When I run it, the Chromedriver console win

Answer 1

To hide the webdriver console window, I had to edit the Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\services.py in my case but I was using PhantomJS. PhantomJS imports and uses this file to start its process. Basically, I added the following creation flag to the Start method:

def start(self):
    """
    Starts the Service.

    :Exceptions:
     - WebDriverException : Raised either when it can't start the service
       or when it can't connect to the service
    """
    try:
        cmd = [self.path]
        cmd.extend(self.command_line_args())
        self.process = subprocess.Popen(cmd, env=self.env,
                                        close_fds=platform.system() != 'Windows',
                                        stdout=self.log_file, stderr=self.log_file, creationflags=CREATE_NO_WINDOW)
    except TypeError:
        raise` in bold.

Also add to the imports this line from win32process import CREATE_NO_WINDOW

This should also work for the Chrome webdriver, as its service.py also imports this very same file, though I have not had time to try.