How To Override Geolocation on Headless Chrome

Feb 28, 2020

1 minute read

I googled it and got many methods. I try one by one, almost all of them turn out outdated. Then I find out a solution, use Chrome Devtools Protocol to achieve that.

The small example code below, that it uses the most common tool selenium to execute chrome devtools protocol command.

import time

from selenium.webdriver import Chrome, ChromeOptions

options = ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("--headless")
driver = Chrome(options=options)
driver.execute_cdp_cmd(
    "Browser.grantPermissions",
    {
        "origin": "https://www.openstreetmap.org/",
        "permissions": ["geolocation"]
    },
)
driver.execute_cdp_cmd(
    "Emulation.setGeolocationOverride",
    {
        "latitude": 35.689487,
        "longitude": 139.691706,
        "accuracy": 100,
    },
)
driver.get("https://www.openstreetmap.org/")
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//span[@class='icon geolocate']").click()
time.sleep(3)  # wait for the page full loaded
driver.get_screenshot_as_file("screenshot.png")

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