How can I force my program to use an updated version of Google-Chrome when using it in headless mode-CodePudding

I have a python script which uses Google Chrome to perform some tasks in Youtube Studio. The script works as expected when I disable options.add_argument('--headless'), but when I use it with the headless option it's unable to find some elements, so I decided to take an screenshot to see what was going on.

It looks like, for some reason, when I use the headless mode, the executed Chrome version is older.

I have also tried to change the user agent: options.add_argument("--user-agent=User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/69.0.3497.100 Safari/537.36"), but it doesn't work.

How can I execute an updated version of Chrome using headless mode?

CodePudding user response：

As suggested the problem was in the user agent version.

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/69.0.3497.100 Safari/537.36

From the agent info we can see the chrome version is:

Chrome/69.0.3497.100

which is quite old version of chrome.

Try with newer version example:

Chrome/105.0.0.0

Simplest way to fetch actual version is from your browser. Open new tab, click F12 or inspect - view page source, Navigate to Network tab, Open some site ex: google.com, check some of the network requests. Select one of the requests until you see: "Request Headers" with the actual to your browser user-agent information.