How do I use Headless Chrome in Chrome 60 on Windows 10?

Question

I\'ve been looking at the following article about Headless Chrome:
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/headless-chrome

I just upgraded Chrome on Wi

Answer 1

With Chrome 61.0.3163.79, if I add --enable-logging then --dump-dom produces output:

> "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --enable-logging --headless --disable-gpu --dump-dom https://www.chromestatus.com


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If you want to programatically control headless Chrome, here's one way to do it with Python3 and Selenium:

In an Admin cmd window, install Selenium for Python:

C:\Users\Mark> pip install -U selenium

Download ChromeDriver v2.32 and extract it. I put the chromedriver.exe in C:\Users\Mark, which is where I put this headless.py Python script:

from selenium import webdriver

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("headless")  # remove this line if you want to see the browser popup
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options = options)
driver.get('https://www.google.com/')
print(driver.page_source)
driver.quit()  # don't miss this, or chromedriver.exe will keep running!

Run it in a normal cmd window:

C:\Users\Mark> python headless.py