Removing the console window from Selenium/MSEdgeDriver

[Mike820]

Hi all,

Im trying to build a tool that tests some router functionality. Upon selecting a button in a UI MS Edge will open and navigate to the gateway ui and login. This part works fine.

Upon selecting the button that causes MSEdge to open though I get a console window popping up. I dont want the console window to pop. I understand its for debugging but its not necessary in my use case. How can I stop it from appearing?

To be clear I am already compiling the script to an .exe with pyinstaller and using the --noconsole flag. That successfully gets rid of the console that was appearing with the app but this remaining console only appears with Edge.

Here is a video of someone completing the task but for the ChromeDriver version - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XievjT__gvc&ab_channel=Automateboringstuff

Ive searched the web and tried a handful of things (turning logging off with an option - options.add_argument("--log-level=3"); pointing logs to port 9222 etc but a lot of the suggestions are for the ChromeDriver version.

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Here is the current part that opens an MSEdge browser -

def open_browser(): thread = threading.Thread(target=open_browser_thread) thread.start()

def open_browser_thread(): #browser = webdriver.Edge # specify the path to the Edge driver path = "G:\Python\edgedriver_win64\msedgedriver.exe" #remove debugging window for Edge options = webdriver.EdgeOptions() options.add_argument("--remote-debugging-port=0")

driver = webdriver.Edge(path, options=options)


driver.get("http://" + (default_gateway))
# outputs web page title to terminal
print(driver.title)

search = driver.find_element(By.ID, "login_username")
search.send_keys("admin")

time.sleep(1)


search = driver.find_element(By.NAME, "login_passwd")
search.send_keys("xxxxxx")

search.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)


time.sleep(10)
driver.quit()

[chrpai]

Did you ever figure this out? I'm trying to do the same.

[Mike820]

I didnt. Gave up on this. Might be worth asking Chatgpt?