Skip to main content

A simple Python package for managing Selenium Chrome drivers in headless mode.

Project description

PyPI version License: MIT

headless-driver

A simple Python package for managing Selenium Chrome drivers in headless mode.

Features

  • Headless Chrome driver management
  • Temporary user data directory
  • Custom window size and user agent
  • Easy cleanup and context manager support
  • Remote and local driver support

Installation

pip install headless-driver

Usage

from headless import Headless

hl = Headless()
driver = hl.get_driver()
driver.get("https://example.com")
print(driver.title)
hl.quit()

Or use as a context manager:

from headless import Headless

with Headless() as driver:
    driver.get("https://example.com")
    print(driver.title)

Search

from headless import SearchScraper, Headless

hl = Headless()
driver = hl.get_driver()

scraper = SearchScraper(driver=driver, max_results=5)

results = scraper.search("Nuhman PK github")
print(results)

API Documentation

Headless class

Headless(
    user_data_dir: Optional[str] = None,
    window_size: Tuple[int, int] = (1920, 1080),
    user_agent: Optional[str] = None,
    headless: bool = True,
    chrome_driver_path: Optional[str] = '/opt/homebrew/bin/chromedriver',
    additional_args: Optional[List[str]] = None,
    remote_url: Optional[str] = None,
)
  • user_data_dir: Path for Chrome user data (temporary if not provided)
  • window_size: Browser window size (default: 1920x1080)
  • user_agent: Custom user agent string
  • headless: Run Chrome in headless mode (default: True)
  • chrome_driver_path: Path to chromedriver executable
  • additional_args: List of extra Chrome arguments
  • remote_url: Use remote Selenium server if provided

Methods

  • get_driver(): Returns a Selenium WebDriver instance
  • quit(): Quits the driver and cleans up user data

Running Tests

python -m unittest discover tests

License

MIT

Project details


Download files

Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.

Source Distribution

headless_driver-0.1.0.tar.gz (5.2 kB view details)

Uploaded Source

Built Distribution

If you're not sure about the file name format, learn more about wheel file names.

headless_driver-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl (5.6 kB view details)

Uploaded Python 3

File details

Details for the file headless_driver-0.1.0.tar.gz.

File metadata

  • Download URL: headless_driver-0.1.0.tar.gz
  • Upload date:
  • Size: 5.2 kB
  • Tags: Source
  • Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? No
  • Uploaded via: twine/6.2.0 CPython/3.11.13

File hashes

Hashes for headless_driver-0.1.0.tar.gz
Algorithm Hash digest
SHA256 f4d958a5046f0613b84894ab8be359784b3c8add874d8c13ec9bb53c98ae0ac1
MD5 7efe19dfc0c0d3cb19db2c7a2456c925
BLAKE2b-256 503b02064a470005301a3144e327edcf021985dc9998d77c8055ac539aff28ec

See more details on using hashes here.

File details

Details for the file headless_driver-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl.

File metadata

File hashes

Hashes for headless_driver-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl
Algorithm Hash digest
SHA256 cc104af40c1cce6f2093c991d708a8bcc1e9b0f86e962c22f12b936c6feef8f9
MD5 76602a009ad819121c89f9ddaaf66ba6
BLAKE2b-256 aa1a38f943a5a7df7fa7bd5b06b80b8fa01fcae28b534a1b24aacc7d3a9e7591

See more details on using hashes here.

Supported by

AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Monitoring Depot Continuous Integration Fastly CDN Google Download Analytics Pingdom Monitoring Sentry Error logging StatusPage Status page