How to launch headless chrome in OS X

Question

I am trying to launch Chrome in Headless mode for some automation with Selenium and Python. I've tried all the arguments but Chrome will not launch in headless mode. Please help. Chrome will launch with all the arguments except for headless.

from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager 
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
options = Options()
options.add_argument("--headless")
options.add_argument("--no-sandbox")
options.add_argument('--no-proxy-server')
options.add_argument("--proxy-server='direct://'")
options.add_argument("--proxy-bypass-list=*")
options.add_argument("--disable-gpu")
options.add_argument("--disable-infobars")
options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")
options.binary_location = "/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome"
#options.headless = True
#options.add_argument("--window-size=780,620")
#options.add_argument("--headless")
#options.add_argument("--ignore-certificate-errors")
#options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")
#options.add_argument("--disable-dev-shm-usage")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options = options, executable_path= "/Users/chromedriver")
driver.get("https://www.google.com")
print ("Headless Chrome Initialized")

Answer 1

That worked for me before some months:

options = Options()
options.add_argument("headless")
options.add_argument("--start-minimized")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options, executable_path=r'C:\path\to\chromedriver.exe')

or

options = Options()
options.headless = True
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options, executable_path=r'C:\path\to\chromedriver.exe')

Answer 2

That's what headless mode actually does. It shows chrome browser running but since you run it in headless mode - there is no UI and that's fine. If your tests pass in headless mode - it's ok.