web scraping with selenium faster

selenium_optimized_scraper.py

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
import time

start_time = time.time()

url = ""
query = "" # xpath query


options = Options()

options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")
options.add_argument("--disable-javascript")
options.add_argument("--blink-settings=imagesEnabled=false")
options.add_experimental_option("excludeSwitches", ["enable-automation"])
options.add_experimental_option("useAutomationExtension", False)
options.add_argument("--disable-gpu")
options.add_argument("--no-sandbox")
options.add_argument("--disable-dev-shm-usage")
options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")
options.add_argument("--disable-infobars")
options.add_argument("--disable-popup-blocking")
options.page_load_strategy = "none"

service = Service("./chromedriver")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service, options=options)
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 20)

driver.get(url)
wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, query)))
driver.execute_script("window.stop();")

print(
    driver.find_element(
        By.XPATH,
        query,
    ).text
)
print("Elapsed Time: " + str(time.time() - start_time))