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How to use Headless Chrome Selenium on PythonAnywhere?

"Using Selenium on PythonAnywhere" says:

Firefox only, selenium 2, geckodriver not required (…) That (Firefox v17.0) is quite an old version, but it works for most sites.

In my case it did not work. Is there a way to use Google Chrome (headless) anyway on PythonAnywhere?

Solution

  • I found this forum entry with the hint that it is not only possible to use Chrome, but even "You'll need to upgrade Selenium to the most recent version".

    I simply wrote an email to the PythonAnywhere support and they enabled that for my (payed) account within hours.

    Don't forget to start a new console or restart your web app! Then the following code should work:

    from selenium import webdriver

chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-gpu")
browser = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options)

try:
    browser.get("https://www.google.com")
    print(f'Page title was {browser.title}')

finally:
    browser.quit()