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I would like to hide the driver while web scraping with Selenium, just like it is done with IE object ("IE.Visible = False"). Is there a way to do what I want?
 
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Dan_W said:
So I haven't been able to recreate the error you referenced. Instead, I encountered a number of other errors in running the same code through Selenium which reminded me that Selenium can be pretty tempermental. Turns out that, in the intervening hour, I needed to update my ChromeDriver. All I can do is suggest that you check that your ChromeDriver matches your version of Chrome, and to try restarting your system. I did this, and then tried the following code, and it worked:

VBA Code: 
Sub HeadlessSelenium_CD()
  
    Dim CD As Selenium.ChromeDriver
    Dim strHTML As String

    ' Instantiate Selenium through the ChromeDriver
    Set CD = New Selenium.ChromeDriver
  
    ' Run Selenium in Headless mode
    CD.AddArgument "--headless"
    CD.Start
  
    ' Navigate to the URL
    CD.Get "https://www.tokopedia.com/petanidaun/foliage-premium-plant-food-khusus-tanaman-hias-daun"
  
    ' Extract the HTML code of the website
    strHTML = CD.PageSource
  
    ' Print the HTML code to the Immediate Window
    Debug.Print strHTML
  
    CD.Close
    Set CD = Nothing

End Sub

I should also add that the target website looks to be a bit tricky - when I first tried accessing the site with my updated ChromeDriver, I didn't use headless mode, and it worked OK. But then when I tried to access it under headless mode, It produced the following HTML code:

HTML: 
<html><head>
<title>Access Denied</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Access Denied</h1>
You don't have permission to access "http://www.tokopedia.com/petanidaun/foliage-premium-plant-food-khusus-tanaman-hias-daun" on this server.<p></p></body></html>

Let me know if you've managed to get ChromeDriver to run in headless mode.
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I tried at another address
success
 
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Glad to hear it - so did the .AddArgument approach work for you?
 
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i tried ripping the whole list of products (millions of items). i believe it requires a cookie container to manage permissions. the cookie has multiple parameters and i am not going to pursue it any further. it would require a fair amount of tinkering to get it going. selenium may automate all of that but it is not something easy to do using XMLHTTP
 
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