How to run headless REMOTE chrome using robot framework

Question

I'm trying to run chrome headless with my robot framework tests suites. I managed to do it independtly with python using selenium as follows:

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--headless')
my_driver = webdriver.Remote(command_executer=my_remote_address, desired_capabilities=options.to_capabilities)

The following code is what I did in robot but didn't work:

${options}=  Evaluate  sys.modules['selenium.webdriver'].ChromeOptions()  sys, selenium.webdriver
${options.add_argument}=  Set Variable  add_argument=--headless
Create WebDriver  Chrome  chrome_options=${options}

Open Browser   http://www.google.com   chrome

Answer 1

In newer versions of SeleniumLibrary (3.1.0) and Selenium (3.8.0) you can simply set the browser to headlesschrome instead of chrome.

There's also headlessfirefox available.

Ex.

Open Browser      http://www.yoursite.com    headlesschrome

http://robotframework.org/SeleniumLibrary/SeleniumLibrary.html#Open%20Browser