Merge pull request #4 from Zubdata/adding_headless_mode

Adding headless mode option

Author: mzubairtahir

Google map scraper/scraper/frontend.py

@@ -100,6 +100,12 @@ def __init__(self):
         )
         self.resetSettingsButton.place(x=20, y=590)
 
+        """For healdess checkbox"""
+
+        self.healdessCheckBoxVar=tk.IntVar()
+        self.healdessCheckBox= tk.Checkbutton(self.root,text="Headless mode",variable=self.healdessCheckBoxVar)
+        self.healdessCheckBox.place(x=700,y=45)
+
 
         self.__replacingtext(
             "Welcome to Google Maps Scraper!\n\nLet's start scraping..."
@@ -151,6 +157,7 @@ def getinput(self):
 
                 self.searchQuery = self.searchQuery.lower()
                 self.outputFormatValue = self.outputFormatValue.lower()
+                self.headlessMode=self.healdessCheckBoxVar.get()
 
                 self.threadToStartBackend = threading.Thread(target=self.startscraping)
                 self.threadToStartBackend.start()
@@ -170,6 +177,7 @@ def startscraping(self):
             self.outputFormatValue,
             self.messageshowing,
             self.outputfolderpath,
+            healdessmode=self.headlessMode
         )
 
         self.mainscraping()

Google map scraper/scraper/scraper.py

@@ -35,27 +35,23 @@ class Backend:
 
     timeout = 60
 
-    def __init__(self, searchquery, outputformat, messageshowingfunc, outputpath):
+    def __init__(self, searchquery, outputformat, messageshowingfunc, outputpath,healdessmode):
         """
         params:
 
         search query: it is the value that user will enter in search query entry 
         outputformat: output format of file , selected by user
         messageshowingfunc: function refernece to function of frontend class to 
         outputpath: directory path where file will be stored after scraping
+        headlessmode: it's value can be 0 and 1, 0 means unchecked box and 1 means checked
 
         """
 
 
         self.searchquery = searchquery  # search query that user will enter
         self.messageshowing = messageshowingfunc  # it is a function used as api for transfering message form this backend to frontend
 
-        """
-        output path is location of folder where file will be stored after scraping.
-        it will be asked When user will use this application for first time, after that 
-        user can change this path by clicking on the button "Reset path" 
-        """
-
+        self.headlessMode=healdessmode
         self.datasaver = DataSaver(
             selectedpath=outputpath,
             outputformat=outputformat,
@@ -197,6 +193,10 @@ def mainscraping(self):
             """Starting our browser"""
 
             options = uc.ChromeOptions()
+            
+            if self.headlessMode==1:
+                options.headless=True
+
             prefs = {"profile.managed_default_content_settings.images": 2}
             options.add_experimental_option("prefs", prefs)