Python navigate Edge and close automatically-CodePudding

I am navigating through the web with python and downloaded some files. However, I do not want to open edge, just want to download the files, but python opens edge automatically. How do I get around this?

Some of my code include:

import time
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select

driver = webdriver.Edge()

driver.get("myURL")

time.sleep(2)

id_box = driver.find_element(By.ID,"id")

id_box.send_keys("username")

# And much more...

CodePudding user response：

You can use the option to run the webdriver in headless mode. This means that the webdriver will run in the background and not open a GUI window. You can set this option when initializing the webdriver. Here's an example of how you can set this option for Edge:

from selenium import webdriver

options = webdriver.EdgeOptions()
options.add_argument('--headless')

driver = webdriver.Edge(options=options)

driver.get("myURL")

CodePudding user response：

I think what you want is edge to run "headless". Didn't find a solution using bare selenium. There seems to be a solution at link