Open Chrome browser in Headless Mode

Open Chrome browser in Headless Mode

A headless browser is a web browser without a graphical user interface. Headless browsers provide automated control of a web page in an environment similar to popular web browsers, but are executed via a command-line interface or using network communication.

Open Chrome browser in Headless Mode below Chrome options need to set

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();

options.addArguments("start-maximized");

options.addArguments("disable-infobars");

options.addArguments("--disable-extensions");

options.addArguments("--headless");

Sample Program:

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions;

public class HeadlessChrome {

static WebDriver driver;

public static void main(String[] args) {

// For Mac

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", System.getProperty("user.dir") + "/chromedriver_mac64");

/*

* // For Windows 

* System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver",

* System.getProperty("user.dir") + "/chromedriver.exe");

*/

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();

options.addArguments("start-maximized");

options.addArguments("disable-infobars");

options.addArguments("--disable-extensions");

options.addArguments("--headless");

// options.addArguments("window-size=1200x600");

driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

driver.get("https://www.google.co.in/");

System.out.println(driver.getTitle());

}

}