To run chrome-headless just add --headless via chrome_options.add_argument, i.e.:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
chrome_options = Options()
#chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")
#chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-gpu")
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options)
start_url = "https://google.com"
driver.get(start_url)
print(driver.page_source.encode("utf-8"))
driver.quit()
# b'<!DOCTYPE html><html xmlns="http://www....
So my thought is that running it with headless chrome would make my script faster.
Try using chrome options like --disable-extensions or --disable-gpu and benchmark it, but I wouldn't count with much improvement.
References: headless-chrome
Note: As of today, when running chrome headless, you should include the --disable-gpu flag if you're running on Windows.
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