I have gotten this to work in Jessie/Stretch with previous Chrome/Firefox versions but can't seem to get it to work with Raspberry Pi 3B or 4 running Raspbian Buster and the latest Selenium, 3.141.0 in Python.
For Chrome, I install chromium-chromedriver via apt and then run the code below:
from selenium import webdriver
from pyvirtualdisplay import Display
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--headless')
options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
driver = webdriver.Chrome('/usr/bin/chromedriver', chrome_options=options)
driver.get('https://www.google.com')
driver.close()
display.stop()
It returns the below error:
Message: chrome not reachable
(Session info: headless chrome=74.0.3729.157)
(Driver info: chromedriver=74.0.3729.157 (7b16107ab85c5364cdcd0b2dea2539a1f2dc327a-refs/branch-heads/3729@{#998}),platform=Linux 4.19.75-v7+ armv7l)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "SeleniumDebugExample.py", line 42, in <module>
print(driver.page_source)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 670, in page_source
return self.execute(Command.GET_PAGE_SOURCE)['value']
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 312, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
WebDriverException: Message: chrome not reachable
(Session info: headless chrome=74.0.3729.157)
(Driver info: chromedriver=74.0.3729.157 (7b16107ab85c5364cdcd0b2dea2539a1f2dc327a-refs/branch-heads/3729@{#998}),platform=Linux 4.19.75-v7+ armv7l)
For Firefox, since iceweasel is no longer available I install firefox-esr via apt and get the latest ARM geckodriver, which is currently 0.23.0, from https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases then run the code below:
from selenium import webdriver
from pyvirtualdisplay import Display
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options
options = Options()
options.headless = True
capabilities = webdriver.DesiredCapabilities().FIREFOX
capabilities["marionette"] = False
driver = webdriver.Firefox(options=options, executable_path='/srv/main/geckodriver', capabilities=capabilities)
driver.get('https://www.google.com')
print(driver.page_source)
driver.close()
display.stop()
This returns the error:
Message: Can't load the profile. Possible firefox version mismatch. You must use GeckoDriver instead for Firefox 48+. Profile Dir: /tmp/tmpxMUUcF If you specified a log_file in the FirefoxBinary constructor, check it for details.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "SeleniumDebugExample.py", line 50, in <module>
driver = webdriver.Firefox(options=options, executable_path='/srv/main/geckodriver', capabilities=capabilities)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 191, in __init__
self.binary, timeout)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/extension_connection.py", line 52, in __init__
self.binary.launch_browser(self.profile, timeout=timeout)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/firefox_binary.py", line 73, in launch_browser
self._wait_until_connectable(timeout=timeout)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/firefox_binary.py", line 114, in _wait_until_connectable
% (self.profile.path))
WebDriverException: Message: Can't load the profile. Possible firefox version mismatch. You must use GeckoDriver instead for Firefox 48+. Profile Dir: /tmp/tmpxMUUcF If you specified a log_file in the FirefoxBinary constructor, check it for details.
I am specifying geckodriver though so I am not sure what the issue is...
If anyone has gotten headless selenium to work on Raspbian Buster and can share some could it would be greatly appreciated!