Hide the console in Python Selenium

Running Python Selenium causes the ChromeDriver console window to appear.
In this article, I will note how to hide it.

Environment

• Windows 10
• Python 3.9.0
• selenium 4.0.0b3

Pay attention to the version. In older versions of Selenium, the methods described in this article may not work.
(To install a specific version with pip, use pip install selenium==4.0.0b3, for example)

Source code

The following

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from subprocess import CREATE_NO_WINDOW

service = Service('path/to/chromedriver')
service.creationflags = CREATE_NO_WINDOW

driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service)

You can hide the console window by directly rewriting the creationflags of the Service class.

Reference

Written below.

• https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/pull/8647#issuecomment-690590293

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