How to run headless firefox browser on remote server over SSH connection? - python-3.x

Question

I have a remote server and I wish to run a headless session of Firefox there. I login into the remote server and execute the command. Even if the commands are headless, still it opens my machine's Firefox and performs actions within it. Any idea what could be the reason? I wish to perform these actions remotely without my display machine (like my laptop) being connected to it.
from selenium.webdriver import Firefox
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as expected
from selenium.webdriver.support.wait import WebDriverWait
if __name__ == "__main__":
options = Options()
options.add_argument('-headless')
driver = Firefox(executable_path='/path/to/geckodriver', firefox_options=options)
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, timeout=10)
driver.get('http://www.google.com')
wait.until(expected.visibility_of_element_located((By.NAME, 'q'))).send_keys('headless firefox' + Keys.ENTER)
wait.until(expected.visibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, '#ires a'))).click()
print(driver.page_source)
driver.quit()

Answer 1

I resolved it myself as follows:
First run this in terminal
sudo apt-get install xvfb
sudo pip3 install pyvirtualdisplay
Then add following lines to your code
from pyvirtualdisplay import Display
display = Display(visible=0,size=(1024,768))
display.start()
And my browser configuration looks like this:
cap = DesiredCapabilities().FIREFOX
cap["marionette"] = False
display = Display(visible=0,size=(1024,768))
display.start()
options = Options()
options.set_headless(headless=True)
binary = FirefoxBinary("/home/ubuntu/firefox/firefox")
options.add_argument("-headless")
browser = Firefox(firefox_options=options, executable_path='/home/ubuntu/Documents/sourcecode/geckodriver',firefox_binary=binary,capabilities = cap )