When I run chrome driver from selenium the browser opens in minimized windows. but I want it to open by default as maximized
You can either use
driver.maximize_window() or
chrome_options.add_argument("--start-maximized") which will maximize the browser when ever it opens.
The following code was taken from this link. https://pythonbasics.org/selenium-maximize/
from selenium import webdriver
import time
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.maximize_window()
time.sleep(5)
driver.get("https://www.python.org")
This is one of the methods to do so.
Related
This is what I have:
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
How can I let the geckodriver open minimized or hidden?
You have to set the firefox driver options to headless so that it opens minimized. Here is the code to do that.
fireFoxOptions = webdriver.FirefoxOptions()
fireFoxOptions.set_headless()
driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_options=fireFoxOptions)
If this doesn't work for you there are other methods that you can use. Check out this other SO question for those: How to make firefox headless programmatically in Selenium with python?
geckodriver
geckodriver in it's core form is a proxy for using W3C WebDriver-compatible clients to interact with Gecko-based browsers.
This program provides the HTTP API described by the WebDriver protocol to communicate with Gecko browsers, such as Firefox. It translates calls into the Firefox remote protocol by acting as a proxy between the local- and remote ends.
So more or less it acts like a service. So the question to minimize the GeckoDriver shouldn't arise.
Minimizing Mozilla Firefox browser
The Selenium driven GeckoDriver initiated firefox Browsing Context by default opens in semi maximized mode. Perhaps while executing tests with the browsing context being minimized would be against all the best practices as Selenium may loose the focus over the Browsing Context and an exception may raise during the Test Execution.
However, Selenium's python client does have a minimize_window() method which eventually minimizes the Chrome Browsing Context effectively.
Solution
You can use the following solution:
Firefox:
from selenium import webdriver
options = webdriver.FirefoxOptions()
options.binary_location = r'C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe'
driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_options=options, executable_path=r'C:\WebDrivers\geckodriver.exe')
driver.get('https://www.google.co.in')
driver.minimize_window()
Chrome:
from selenium import webdriver
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("--start-maximized")
options.add_experimental_option("excludeSwitches", ["enable-automation"])
options.add_experimental_option('useAutomationExtension', False)
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options, executable_path=r'C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\chromedriver.exe')
driver.get('https://www.google.co.in')
driver.minimize_window()
Reference
You can find a detailed relevant discussion in:
How to Minimize browser window in selenium webdriver 3
tl; dr
How to make firefox headless programmatically in Selenium with python?
I was recently experimenting with Selenium in Python and noticed that every time I created a new webdriver object and used webdriver.get(website), the webdriver window would open first (black window that sort of looks like the terminal) and then the actual tab with the website would open. Is there anyway to run the webdriver in the background so only the tab opens without the webdriver window opening?
EDIT: Currently using the Chrome webdriver.
to make chrome run in background you can add headless mode option
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
options = Options()
options.add_argument('--headless')
options.add_argument('--disable-gpu')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)
driver.get('https://www.google.com')
print(driver.title)
driver.close()
I know how to call a method to maximize window from driver object.
driver.maximize_window()
But what method should I use when I need to minimize browser window (hide it)?
Actually, driver object hasn't maximize_window attribute.
My goal to work silently with the browser window. I don't want to see it on my PC.
Option 1: Use driver.minimize_window()
Option 2: Use --headless
Example 1:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
options = Options()
options.add_argument('--headless')
options.add_argument('--disable-gpu')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
driver.get("enter your url here")
Example 2:
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.minimize_window()
driver.get("enter your url here")
I would like to give a suggestion and make you correct that there's a method to minimize the window as you are required to do.
driver.minimize_window()
I would also like to mention that this will definitely work in python3, hope you were working in python.
Just driver.minimize_window() or use a headless browser as PhamtonJS or Chromium.
Example:
PROXY_SERVER = "127.0.0.1:5566" # IP:PORT or HOST:PORT
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.binary_location = r"/usr/bin/opera" # path to opera executable
options.add_argument('--proxy-server=%s' % PROXY_SERVER)
driver = webdriver.Opera(executable_path=r"/home/prestes/Tools/operadriver_linux64/operadriver", options=options)
driver.minimize_window()
driver.get(url)
html = driver.page_source
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "lxml")
print(html)
driver.quit()
Maybe try a headless browser? Chrome headless or PhantomJS.
http://phantomjs.org/
Keep in mind that development is suspended for Phantom js. You may want to use other alternatives if it doesn't work or gives errors -
https://github.com/dhamaniasad/HeadlessBrowsers
A headless browser is a web browser without a GUI.
Try this,
driver.set_window_position(0, 0)
I am currently trying to code a basic smartmirror for my coding II class in high school with python. One thing I'm trying to do is open new tabs in full screen (using chrome). I currently have it so I can open url's, but I am not getting them in full screen. Any ideas on code I can use to open chrome in full screen?
If you're using selenium, just code like below:
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('https://google.com')
driver.maximize_window()
As suggested, selenium is a good way to accomplish your task.
In order to have it full-screen and not only maximized I would use:
chrome_options.add_argument("--start-fullscreen");
or
chrome_options.add_argument("--kiosk");
First option emulates the F11 pressure and you can exit pressing F11. The second one turns your chrome in "kiosk" mode and you can exit pressing ALT+F4.
Other interesting flags are:
chrome_options.add_experimental_option("useAutomationExtension", False)
chrome_options.add_experimental_option("excludeSwitches", ["enable-automation"])
Those will remove the top bar exposed by the chrome driver saying it is a dev chrome version.
The complete script is:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_experimental_option("useAutomationExtension", False)
chrome_options.add_experimental_option("excludeSwitches", ["enable-automation"])
# chrome_options.add_argument("--start-fullscreen");
chrome_options.add_argument("--kiosk");
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=rel("path/to/chromedriver"),
chrome_options=chrome_options)
driver.get('https://www.google.com')
"path/to/chromedriver" should point to the chrome driver compatible with your chrome version downloaded from here
I'm new to this forum as well as to programming and selenium.
I'm trying to maximize my chrome browser using selenium python(using the below code) and everytime selenium opens the browser it would not maximize the whole window.It maximizes only half the screen with "data:," already filled on the address bar.
self.driver = webdriver.Chrome()
self.driver.maximize_window()
I also tried
options=webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("--start-maximized")
driver=webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)
but doesn't help
Just looked at my code and noticed that my import is
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
And the rest of the code is
options = Options()
options.add_argument("--start-maximized")
driver=webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)
This does work
There is an open issue in ChromeDriver which is specific to Mac OS X.
What I remember helped was to first set the dimensions explicitly and then maximize:
driver.set_window_size(1200, 800)
driver.maximize_window()