PHP Headless Browser

How do you run Selenium headless in PHP?

This has been improved in php-webdriver 1.11.0 (2021-05-03).

Start headless Chrome

$chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();
$chromeOptions->addArguments(['--headless']);

$capabilities = DesiredCapabilities::chrome();
$capabilities->setCapability(ChromeOptions::CAPABILITY_W3C, $chromeOptions);

// Start the browser with $capabilities
// A) When using RemoteWebDriver::create()
$driver = RemoteWebDriver::create($serverUrl, $capabilities);
// B) When using ChromeDriver::start to start local Chromedriver
$driver = ChromeDriver::start($capabilities);

See php-webdriver wiki article for more Chrome examples.

Start headless Firefox

$firefoxOptions = new FirefoxOptions();
$firefoxOptions->addArguments(['-headless']);

$capabilities = DesiredCapabilities::firefox();
$capabilities->setCapability(FirefoxOptions::CAPABILITY, $firefoxOptions);

// Start the browser with $capabilities
// A) When using RemoteWebDriver::create()
$driver = RemoteWebDriver::create($serverUrl, $capabilities);
// B) When using FirefoxDriver::start to start local Geckodriver
$driver = FirefoxDriver::start($capabilities);

See php-webdriver wiki article for more Firefox examples.

php HeadlessChromium\BrowserFactory not found in file.php

When using composer you need to include the autoloader on top of the script.

<?php
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use HeadlessChromium\BrowserFactory;

$browserFactory = new BrowserFactory();

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