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Headless browser
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Do you get any errors?
I tried it with chromedriver and it worked fine (although code a bit different (see below)):
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
import os


class TryDucky:
    def __init__(self):
        os.chdir(os.path.dirname(__file__))
        self.duck()

    def duck(self):
        chrome_options = Options()
        chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
        chrome_options.add_argument('--disable-gpu')
        chrome_options.add_argument('--log-level=3')
        browser = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options)
        browser.get('https://duckduckgo.com')

        # Try to find something (otherwise wont see anything since headless)
        search_comment = browser.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div/div[2]/div/div/div[3]/div/div')
        print(f'\n{search_comment.text}')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    TryDucky()
Don't forget if headless, you won't see anything until you actually print it.

result:
Output:
The search engine that doesn't track you. Help Spread DuckDuckGo!
options part of code courtesy snippsat
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Messages In This Thread
Headless browser - by Truman - Oct-13-2018, 10:36 PM
RE: Headless browser - by metulburr - Oct-14-2018, 12:04 AM
RE: Headless browser - by Truman - Oct-14-2018, 11:29 PM
RE: Headless browser - by Larz60+ - Oct-14-2018, 12:15 AM
RE: Headless browser - by metulburr - Oct-14-2018, 11:52 PM
RE: Headless browser - by Truman - Oct-15-2018, 12:14 AM
RE: Headless browser - by snippsat - Oct-15-2018, 01:00 AM
RE: Headless browser - by Truman - Oct-15-2018, 11:09 PM
RE: Headless browser - by snippsat - Oct-16-2018, 01:06 PM
RE: Headless browser - by Truman - Oct-16-2018, 10:35 PM

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