PyVirtualDisplay is python wrapper for Xvfb, Xephyr and Xvnc.
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Use selenium to automate webpage that just works on Internet Explorer
I’m trying to use selenium to automate a webpage that just works on IE, I cannot use Edge Compatibility Mode, once I’m using a Linux server (Edge for Linux doesn’t have the IE mode). Also I have tried Chrome plugins but it doesn’t work with selenium…

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I am working with selenium but when i use driver.get i am catching error 1020 access denied
I created a bot in Python using Selenium, uploaded Ununtu to a remote server, and when I go to the driver.get('correct_url') => site, an access denied error occurs. On windows everything works fine (code is working).
chrome_options = Options()
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Docker and X server: Cannot establish any listening sockets
So I have the following script that I'm running in a Docker container:
#!/bin/bash
# silencing matplotlib warning
MPLCONFIGDIR="/tmp"
export MPLCONFIGDIR
# Virtual display
export DISPLAY=:0
Xvfb :0 -screen 0 1024x768x24
# my python module is…

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Using clipboard with selenium and pyvirtualdisplay
I have a selenium script that works and must use a virtual disaply (pyvirtualdisplay or
xvfbwrapper) and at the end clicks a copy to clipboard button. the scripts works fine on windows (without a virtual display) but not on linux.
I belive the…

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pyvirtualdisplay errors on stdout FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
I'm running a Docker container on Azure and using pyvirtualdisplay to open a display for rendering. After doing
from pyvirtualdisplay import Display
display = Display(visible=False, size=(1400, 900))
display.start()
I get the following error. Any…

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Selenium script with pyvirtualdisplay and Xvfb not working on cron on linux vm
I have a selenium script which uses pyvirtualdisplay.Display with visible=0. The script runs fine when run manually but fails when run using cron job. I think it is due to the Xvfb and pyvirtualdisplay but I can't seem to fix it. The crontab command…
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Running Pyvirtualdisplay on WSGI
I am trying to run pyvirtualdisplay as part of a WSGI app. I have Xfvb installed, my 000-default.conf file:
# The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
# the server uses to identify itself.…

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python connect to remote host and capture webpage on local host
I've had a look around here for multiprocessing, for the most part, I've gotten it narrowed down but the last bit fails for some reason.
Context
I have a remote webserver that I connect to that I have port forwarded the HTTP page to a local port. I…

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Selenium Failed to start firefox browser on server with Display(visible=0, size=(800, 600))
I run simple selenium code on my linux server but it return that error
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Failed to start browser:
other os error
My python selenium code is this-
from pyvirtualdisplay import Display
from…

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Python: Selenium Webdriver take several Screenshots
I´m writing a code that should take screenshots from 3 different breakpoints [1280 px, 768px and 320px]. But the code i have take 3 screenshots of the same screen widht.
from datetime import datetime
from selenium import webdriver
from…

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Selenium 3 chrome headless not working in Ubuntu 16.04.3
I am getting the following error when i try to do chrome headless browser.I am not able to find the proper error
from pyvirtualdisplay import Display
from selenium import webdriver
display = Display(visible=0, size=(800,…

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Pyvirtualdisplay doesn't like text
I want to get some text from a web page with selenium but when I use the pyvirtualdisplay package and I write code like this:
from pyvirtualdisplay import Display
display = Display(visible=0, size=(1024, 768))
display.start()
...
elem =…

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is it possible to peep what selenium is doing during automated tests?
I perform headless web session tests with selenium (python, ubuntu server 15, firefox), which can last for hours. I do make use of pyvirtualdisplay + xvfb.
My python scripts begin like this:
from pyvirtualdisplay import Display
virtualdisplay =…

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FreeBSD - using pyvirtualdisplay - Python 2.7 / Selenium Web Driver
Below is the code am writing in FreeBSD. Before this code, I did
pkg install xorg-vfbserver
but after this I don't know which environment variable to set. Like in Ubuntu you have to do like this before using this program
apt-get install xvfb
export…

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Error in trying to run Selenium in a Headless Linux Server (testing in Mac OS) with PyVirtualDisplay
I have been developing (on my Mac OSX) with Selenium Web Driver to do some scraping but I need to move the script to a Headless Linux Server.
With some research, it seems I need to use PyVirtualDisplay to simulate the launching of browser for…

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