How to connect to Chromium Headless using Selenium
I think the readme is a little bit misleading. You don't have to start Chromium itself and you can use the RemoteWebDriver
. Make sure that a chromedriver is installed (https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home).
- Start chromedriver (e.g.
./chromedriver
or./chromedriver --port=9515
) - Then you have tell the chromedriver to use Chromium instead of Chrome
- Add
--headless
as an additional argument
Code should look like this:
final ChromeOptions chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();
chromeOptions.setBinary("/usr/bin/chromium-browser");
chromeOptions.addArguments("--headless");
desiredCapabilities.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, chromeOptions);
WebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(url, desiredCapabilities);
Worked for me on Ubuntu Linux.
Alternatively if your running it locally you can just do it like this. In scala.
val chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions
chromeOptions.addArguments("--headless")
new ChromeDriver(chromeOptions)