Selenium Chrome driver headless mode not working

Question

My code worked perfectly until yesterday when I updated Google Chrome to version 110.0.5481.77. Now it's not working in headless mode:

options.add_argument("--headless")

I even tried adding options.add_argument("--window-size=1280,700") but still not working. Although if I remove the headless option it again works correctly!

Gastro

try this Chrome driver of selenium in headless mode not finding any element – Corcovado

Answer 1

Accroding to this answer and Google Chrome release notes you should add the headless mode option like below:

options.add_argument("--headless=new")

and no need to specify the window size

Gastro

But it seems by default uses a small resolution. It seems to be something like 800x600. – Borgeson

@PauloOliveira My use case is well served by the default, but I think you can use the options.add_argument("--window-size=1280,700") to justify that. If that doesn't solve feel free to provide a more accurate answer. – Gastro

Does not work for me on 112 stable or 113 beta. – Borgeson

@PauloOliveira I've got no idea, if you could figure it out post an answer. – Gastro

This works with Chrome 114 and Chromium 114. Nothing else worked for me. Strange thing is, that for other sites I can use the options.add_argument("--headless") version, but for one specific site I can't – Hangdog

Do you know why it's now working for Kayak? #78094100 – Teahan

@ErikJohnsson unfortunately I'm not aware of the inner workings nor the specific site you are scraping, but I guess seeing the Selenium logs may help you identify the problem. It's easy to set that up, I can't say off the top of my head, but with a quick search you can do that. – Gastro

It works today as well.. thanks for the answer @MaskedMan. – Cairngorm

@SwaroopHumane glad it helped, happy coding. – Gastro