headless-selenium-for-win using Python

Question

I found a headless IE from this github project headless-selenium-for-win

Which has the following files

desktop_utils.exe
headless_ie_selenium.exe

I extracted these files to C:\Selenium\headless-selenium

I used Selenium Python library to control IE(GUI) using IEDriverServer.exe which works well but when I use headless_ie_selenium.exe my script just went into endless execution and prints nothing.

Here is my Python Code

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys


#driver = webdriver.Ie(r"C:/Selenium/IEDriverServer.exe")
driver = webdriver.Ie(r"C:/Selenium/headless-selenium/headless_ie_selenium.exe")
driver.get("www.google.com")
googleSearch = driver.find_element_by_name("q")
googleSearch.send_keys("Selenium")
googleSearch.send_keys(Keys.ENTER)

import time
time.sleep(4)

print driver.title

@PadraicCunningham I'm have to use IE for testing a site which was developed using ActiveX object. — Balakrishnan, Jan 02 '15 at 21:23
What do you mean when you say `endless execution`? You don't tear down the driver instance in the script you posted, so one shouldn't expect the window to close. — duhaime, Jan 02 '15 at 21:34
@duhaime I mean, I waited for a long time but the interpreter didn't execute `print driver.title` statement — Balakrishnan, Jan 02 '15 at 21:42
FWIW, due to the way the IEDriver actually works and how it interacts with IE (it is *vastly* different to the other drivers), fudging it to work "headless" is not supported! — Arran, Jan 04 '15 at 22:48

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 06 '15 at 13:56

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I added the path of IEDriverServer.exe to System Variable path and after restarting my system the everything works fine.

answered Jan 06 '15 at 13:56

Balakrishnan

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I put all three files in the same folder as my main executable. [ IEDriverServer.exe, desktop_utils.exe, headless_ie_selenium.exe ]. Easy packaging & distribution. – SoloPilot Jan 25 '19 at 20:30

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 03 '15 at 21:20

May be problem in slashes...

Your path: C:/Selenium/headless-selenium/headless_ie_selenium.exe

Try this: C:\Selenium\headless-selenium\headless_ie_selenium.exe

and another:

Your: driver.get("www.google.com")

Try this: driver.get("https://www.google.com")

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