Cypress: [Feature Request] Support for Chrome in headless mode

Created on 25 Apr 2017 · 8Comments · Source: cypress-io/cypress

Current behavior:

It is not possible to run tests in headless mode with browser extensions installed, because the only supported browser in headless mode is Electron, and Electron doesn't support extensions as stated in the documentation.

Expected behavior:

Either allow choosing another browser for running in headless mode or add support for third-party extensions in Electron browser.

Use case scenario:

My web project has several environments (development, beta, production) that share the same URLs and are distinguished by custom headers (say, X-FooApp-Environment: Beta).

To achieve this currently, we set the headers in an extension using headless Chrome and Selenium WebDriver.

Operating System: Linux
Cypress Version: 0.19.2

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marianowadel

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@jennifer-shehane If i were to do cypress run --browser chrome in a headless envirornment(maybe a EC2 AWS instance) would it work the way it would in a headed environment? If not, that is the feature I would want to request.

nanomosfet on 22 Jun 2018

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Adding extensions will be possible once we land https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/684

Adding headless chrome is a separate feature and should be pretty easy to do.

brian-mann on 5 Oct 2017

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So is there a way currently to run cypress headless with chrome now?

nanomosfet on 19 Jun 2018

@nanomosfet You can run cypress using cypress run in Chrome by passing the --browser flag like so. However, this is not running "headless" Chrome, this will run a headed version of Chrome.

The nomenclature has been a bit unclear in the past between running using cypress run and cypress open and the difference between a headless and headed browser. Does what I said make sense?

jennifer-shehane on 19 Jun 2018

nanomosfet on 22 Jun 2018

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Is this possible yet? I've seen people mention headless chrome in other issues (e.g. #2307 #2494). Is there an example of how to do it? My tests don't work in electron.

fr0 on 23 Jan 2019

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@jennifer-shehane If i were to do cypress run --browser chrome in a headless envirornment(maybe a EC2 AWS instance) would it work the way it would in a headed environment? If not, that is the feature I would want to request.

@jennifer-shehane Can you please answer the above question? Is that even possible because my tests would run in kubernetes cluster

immohsin on 22 Feb 2019

@jennifer-shehane If i were to do cypress run --browser chrome in a headless envirornment(maybe a EC2 AWS instance) would it work the way it would in a headed environment? If not, that is the feature I would want to request.

I've faced similar issue and found the solution for Docker container here. If you launch cypress run --browser chrome in a container based on some image from the link (for example cypress/browsers:chrome69) it works like a charm, no additional configs are required. Hope it helps.