How to make Firefox headless programmatically in Selenium with Python

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I am running this code with python  selenium  and firefox but still get  head  version of firefox   binary   FirefoxBinary  C   Program Files  x86   Mozilla Firefox  firefox exe   log file sys stdout  binary add command line options  -headless   self driver   webdriver Firefox firefox binary binary    I also tried some variations of binary   binary   FirefoxBinary  C   Program Files  Nightly  firefox exe   log file sys stdout          binary add command line options  --headless

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To the OP or anyone currently interested  here s the section of code that s worked for me with firefox currently  opt   webdriver FirefoxOptions   opt add argument  -headless   ffox driver   webdriver Firefox executable path   path to geckodriver   options opt

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from selenium webdriver firefox options import Options  if   name       quot   main   quot       options   Options       options add argument  -headless       driver   Firefox executable path  geckodriver   firefox options options       wait   WebDriverWait driver  timeout 10      driver get  http   www google com    Tested  works as expected and this is from Official - Headless Mode   Mozilla

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My answer   set headless headless True  is deprecated     https   seleniumhq github io selenium docs api py webdriver firefox selenium webdriver firefox options html  options headless   True   works for me

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Just a note for people who may have found this later  and want java way of achieving this   FirefoxOptions is also capable of enabling the headless mode   FirefoxOptions firefoxOptions   new FirefoxOptions    firefoxOptions setHeadless true

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Used below code to set driver type based on need of Headless   Head for both Firefox and chrome      Can pass browser type   if brower lower       chrome       driver   webdriver Chrome     drivers chromedriver   elif brower lower       headless chrome       ch Options   Options       ch Options add argument  --headless       ch Options add argument  quot --disable-gpu quot       driver   webdriver Chrome     drivers chromedriver  options ch Options  elif brower lower       firefox       driver   webdriver Firefox executable path r    drivers geckodriver exe   elif brower lower       headless firefox       ff option   FFOption       ff option add argument  --headless       ff option add argument  quot --disable-gpu quot       driver   webdriver Firefox executable path r    drivers geckodriver exe   options ff option  elif brower lower       ie       driver   webdriver Ie     drivers IEDriverServer   else      raise Exception  Invalid Browser Type

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The first answer does t work anymore    This worked for me   from selenium webdriver firefox options import Options as FirefoxOptions from selenium import webdriver  options   FirefoxOptions   options add argument  --headless   driver   webdriver Firefox options options  driver get  http   google com

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To invoke Firefox Browser headlessly  you can set the headless property through Options   class as follows   from selenium import webdriver from selenium webdriver firefox options import Options  options   Options   options headless   True driver   webdriver Firefox options options  executable path r C  Utility BrowserDrivers geckodriver exe   driver get  http   google com    print   Headless Firefox Initialized   driver quit       There s another way to accomplish headless mode  If you need to disable or enable the headless mode in Firefox  without changing the code  you can set the environment variable MOZ HEADLESS to whatever if you want Firefox to run headless  or don t set it at all   This is very useful when you are using for example continuous integration and you want to run the functional tests in the server but still be able to run the tests in normal mode in your PC     MOZ HEADLESS 1 python manage py test   testing example in Django with headless Firefox   or    export MOZ HEADLESS 1     this way you only have to set it once   python manage py test functional tests directory   unset MOZ HEADLESS        if you want to disable headless mode     Outro  How to configure ChromeDriver to initiate Chrome browser in Headless mode through Selenium

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