I need to run proxies that requires authentication on selenium in headless mode.
I think many people are aware of the answer given on this post and it does work very well honestly But only In NON Headless Mode. As extensions are no longer supported in headless mode how to set proxy with authentication in selenium chromedriver python?
Besides that method, another very good method to run proxies that works in headless mode is by using the module selenium-wire. However, selenium-wire can only run in HTTP. To run HTTPS you would need to import a generated certificate into google chrome. So you cant run HTTPS programmatically.
Is there any good options to run proxies with authentication in headless mode? I'm sure many of us are wondering the same thing.
Thanks!
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I want to run the default browser, which we normally use for browsing.
I wouldn't want to run it with chrome webdriver.
it would be like opening the default browser pages "Chrome.exe" and not "Chromedriver.exe"
It's possible?
Yes, it is possible. You should learn Chrome DevTool Protocol(CDB). More details are here
It is low-level browser communication protocol. It communicates via WebSocket and you need to learn how to program WS and read CDP API.
Puppeter working in that way, directly communicate with Chrome.
Logic of Webdriver is to standartize some commands across all browsers.
Similarly, Firefox has Gecko protocol.
Following this question, I know how to authenticate the proxy. This method is like using an extension to control the authentication. And to use the extension, the browser must be shown up.
My question is: How can I authenticate the proxy without an open browser (headless mode), using selenium and chromewebdriver?
I tried with using google chrome flags. But cannot find the solution.
I have a system VPN (I am using pptp protocol) and I am going to use Selenium to test our website, but since only internal users are able to access that website without using a VPN, I cannot access the website to test. When I am using Selenium in GUI mode (not headless) it works fine without any problems but when I switch to headless mode using this command:
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
I get an error because my VPN does not work in the headless mode. Is there any way to use and set my VPN in headless mode in Selenium?
I'm using selenium 3.141.0 with python 3.9 and chrome webdriver, I've managed to make my bot do the actions I require on the pages, but I can't find a way to make it work with a proxy.(For the proxy I'm using NORDVPN)
Until now I tried a class that creates a manifest_json and a background.js and archives them so it uses them as an addon, and I get multiple errors depending on the port I use:
tunneling error, page refused to send data or time out
my problem is, that I wrote some python scripts, which are working fine. Now I have to get them to work on an ubuntu server. The problem is, that I need to use the chromedriver (selenium) and ofc there cant be an open browser at the server. So is there a way to use selenium with a server?
What you need is called 'Headless' editions of a browser.
These headless browsers don't open up as a browser but run in the background for you to perform scripts on.
Try searching for Headless + 'The browser driver you use'
Here is a quick tutorial to get you started: https://medium.com/#pyzzled/running-headless-chrome-with-selenium-in-python-3f42d1f5ff1d