How to use chrome driver with head in Scrapy Selenium

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I Am using Scrapy with scrapySelenium but the scrapy selenium starts with a headless browser but for some purpose i need to start it with head so i can keep seeing what my scrapy does in the browser how to turn off headless arguments passed in settings of scrapy

this is what i copied in the settings it is headless as you can see but want to see the browser open up with Scrapy Selenium is there anyway from shutil import which

SELENIUM_DRIVER_NAME = 'chrome' SELENIUM_DRIVER_EXECUTABLE_PATH = which('chromedriver') SELENIUM_DRIVER_ARGUMENTS=['-headles'] # '--headless' if using chrome instead of firefox

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 13 '20 at 08:43

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Delete the SELENIUM_DRIVER_ARGUMENTS = ['--headless'] from the settings.py.

With selenium webdriver you can pass arguments and this argument makes sure that it is a headless browser.

answered Jul 13 '20 at 08:43

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Could you click the tick on the left hand side of my post to make it the accepted answer? Thanks – AaronS Jul 13 '20 at 13:22

How to use chrome driver with head in Scrapy Selenium

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