["python","google-chrome","selenium-webdriver","selenium-chromedriver","google-chrome-headless"]
How to run headless Chrome with Selenium in Python?

I'm trying some stuff out with selenium, and I really want my script to run quickly. I thought that running my script with headless Chrome would make it faster. First, is that assumption correct, or does it not matter if I run my script with a headless driver? I want headless Chrome to work, but somehow it isn't working correctly. I tried different things, and most suggested that it would work as said here in the October update: How to configure ChromeDriver to initiate Chrome browser in Headless mode through Selenium? But when I tried that, I saw weird console output, and it still doesn't seem to work. Any tips appreciated.
To run chrome-headless just add --headless via chrome_options.add_argument, e.g.: from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options chrome_options = Options() # chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-extensions") # chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-gpu") # chrome_options.add_argument("--no-sandbox") # linux only chrome_options.add_argument("--headless=new") # for Chrome >= 109 # chrome_options.add_argument("--headless") # chrome_options.headless = True # also works driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options) start_url = "https://duckgo.com" driver.get(start_url) print(driver.page_source.encode("utf-8")) # b'<!DOCTYPE html><html xmlns="http://www.... driver.quit() So my thought is that running it with headless chrome would make my script faster. Try using chrome options like --disable-extensions or --disable-gpu and benchmark it, but I wouldn't count with substantial improvement. References: headless-chrome