How to hide Chrome Driver in python?
Google announced in 4/2017 you can run in headless.
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/headless-chrome
chrome_options = Options()
# Chrome v75 and lower:
# chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
# Chrome v 76 and above (v76 released July 30th 2019):
chrome_options.headless = True
chrome_options.binary_location = '/Applications/Google Chrome Canary.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome Canary'
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=os.path.abspath(“chromedriver"), chrome_options=chrome_options)
Few things you should make sure
- If using Mac/Linux then chrome version should be minimum 59
- If using Windows then chrome version should be minimum 60
- Use the latest chromedriver as well to make sure you don't have compatibility issue
REF: how-could-i-start-a-selenium-browserlike-firefox-minimized
You can move browser window over the monitor, like this:
driver.set_window_position(-10000,0)