[FW1738]

I am using PhantomJS with selenium and I am trying to change the user-agent, but it will not change. I studied the selenium code, and trying to change the headers, but nothing works. Does anybody have a solution?

[FriendZone]

I am using PhantomJS with selenium and I am trying to change the user-agent, but it will not change. I studied the selenium code, and trying to change the headers, but nothing works. Does anybody have a solution?

I usually use firefox or chrome with the headless option instead of phantomjs (during the years python support has been dropped often)

Anyway can you try this code:

Code

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities

dcap = dict(DesiredCapabilities.PHANTOMJS)
dcap["phantomjs.page.settings.userAgent"] = (
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/53 "
"(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.87")

driver = webdriver.PhantomJS(desired_capabilities=dcap)

[lockhead]

I usually use firefox or chrome with the headless option instead of phantomjs (during the years python support has been dropped often)

Since when do Chrome and Firefox have headless options?

[FriendZone]

Since when do Chrome and Firefox have headless options?

Since always ahah

No, I’ m not sure when, but since years

In few mins I will post firefox headless

[lockhead]

Since always ahah

No, I’ m not sure when, but since years

In few mins I will post firefox headless

Damn.. it's been a while since I needed something like this but a few years ago I had to deal with this PhantomJS BS because apparently it was the only option...

[FriendZone]

Damn.. it's been a while since I needed something like this but a few years ago I had to deal with this PhantomJS BS because apparently it was the only option...

Code

from selenium.webdriver import Firefox
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options

binary = FirefoxBinary(‘BINARY PATH’)
options = Options()
options.set_headless(True)

driver = webdriver.Firefox(options=options, exacutable_path=‘GECKODRIVER PATH’ , firefox_binary=binary)

driver.browser.get(‘https://www.google.com’)

N.B.

I wrote the code without a pc close to me to test it .

Keep in mind firefox is slower than chrome in headless mode (I read time ago a speed test article about it)

Switch BINARY PATH and GECKODRIVER PATH with the right paths tell me if you need help

[FW1738]

I usually use firefox or chrome with the headless option instead of phantomjs (during the years python support has been dropped often)

Anyway can you try this code:

Code

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities

dcap = dict(DesiredCapabilities.PHANTOMJS)
dcap["phantomjs.page.settings.userAgent"] = (
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/53 "
"(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.87")

driver = webdriver.PhantomJS(desired_capabilities=dcap)

Doesn't work for me. When I print the navigator.userAgent, I still get the same. I got phantomjs version 2.1.1, think that is the newest. That shouldn't be the problem. Does the code work for you?

[FriendZone]

Doesn't work for me. When I print the navigator.userAgent, I still get the same. I got phantomjs version 2.1.1, think that is the newest. That shouldn't be the problem. Does the code work for you?

As stated I don’t use phantomjs but firefox, so I didn’t test it, as soon I will be at home I will find a working way if possible :)

[FW1738]

As stated I don’t use phantomjs but firefox, so I didn’t test it, as soon I will be at home I will find a working way if possible :)

Thank you, do you know if firefox gets detected easily by for example recaptcha?

[FriendZone]

Thank you, do you know if firefox gets detected easily by for example recaptcha?

I would play with profiles and proxies.

Do you need an example to set it in firefox?

[FW1738]

No I know selenium pretty good, but I thought maybe you knew ways to detect the firefox driver besides the easy ones such as the navigator.webdriver flag.

[doon]

I must add that running chrome headless vs firefox is a much greater gain if your looking for as little resource usage as possible.

Headless firefox and the non-headless version aren't that different in resource consumption, where as chrome is 30% less than it's non-headless version.