我可以在没有实际浏览器打开python的情况下使用Selenium和Scrapy

Question

I want to do some web crawling with scrapy and python. I have found few code examples from internet where they use selenium with scrapy.

I don't know much about selenium but only knows that it automates some web tasks. and browser actually opens and do stuff. but i don't want the actual browser to open but i want everything to happen from command line.

Can i do that in selenium and scrapy

Answer 1

Updated: PhantomJS is abandoned, and you can use headless browsers directly now, such like Firefox and Chrome!

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Use PhantomJS instead.

You can do browser = webdriver.PhantomJS() in selenium v2.32.0.

Answer 2

You can use selenium with PyVirtualDisplay , at least on linux.

from pyvirtualdisplay import Display
from selenium import webdriver
display = Display(visible=0, size=(1024, 768))
display.start()
browser = webdriver.Chrome()