Added requested modifications

AUTHORS

@@ -227,6 +227,7 @@ Pedro Algarvio
 Philipp Loose
 Pieter Mulder
 Piotr Banaszkiewicz
+Piotr Helm
 Prashant Anand
 Pulkit Goyal
 Punyashloka Biswal

changelog/6471.feature.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+New flags --no-header and --no-summary added. The first one disables header, the second one disables summary. 

src/_pytest/terminal.py

@@ -115,6 +115,20 @@ def pytest_addoption(parser: Parser) -> None:
         dest="verbose",
         help="increase verbosity.",
     )
+    group._addoption(
+        "--no-header",
+        action="count",
+        default=0,
+        dest="no_header",
+        help="disable header",
+    )
+    group._addoption(
+        "--no-summary",
+        action="count",
+        default=0,
+        dest="no_summary",
+        help="disable summary",
+    )
     group._addoption(
         "-q",
         "--quiet",
@@ -351,6 +365,14 @@ class TerminalReporter:
     def showheader(self) -> bool:
         return self.verbosity >= 0
 
+    @property
+    def no_header(self) -> bool:
+        return self.config.option.no_header
+
+    @property
+    def no_summary(self) -> bool:
+        return self.config.option.no_summary
+
     @property
     def showfspath(self) -> bool:
         if self._showfspath is None:
@@ -660,25 +682,26 @@ class TerminalReporter:
             return
         self.write_sep("=", "test session starts", bold=True)
         verinfo = platform.python_version()
-        msg = "platform {} -- Python {}".format(sys.platform, verinfo)
+        if self.no_header == 0:
-        pypy_version_info = getattr(sys, "pypy_version_info", None)
+            msg = "platform {} -- Python {}".format(sys.platform, verinfo)
-        if pypy_version_info:
+            pypy_version_info = getattr(sys, "pypy_version_info", None)
-            verinfo = ".".join(map(str, pypy_version_info[:3]))
+            if pypy_version_info:
-            msg += "[pypy-{}-{}]".format(verinfo, pypy_version_info[3])
+                verinfo = ".".join(map(str, pypy_version_info[:3]))
-        msg += ", pytest-{}, py-{}, pluggy-{}".format(
+                msg += "[pypy-{}-{}]".format(verinfo, pypy_version_info[3])
-            pytest.__version__, py.__version__, pluggy.__version__
+            msg += ", pytest-{}, py-{}, pluggy-{}".format(
-        )
+                pytest.__version__, py.__version__, pluggy.__version__
-        if (
+            )
-            self.verbosity > 0
+            if (
-            or self.config.option.debug
+                self.verbosity > 0
-            or getattr(self.config.option, "pastebin", None)
+                or self.config.option.debug
-        ):
+                or getattr(self.config.option, "pastebin", None)
-            msg += " -- " + str(sys.executable)
+            ):
-        self.write_line(msg)
+                msg += " -- " + str(sys.executable)
-        lines = self.config.hook.pytest_report_header(
+            self.write_line(msg)
-            config=self.config, startdir=self.startdir
+            lines = self.config.hook.pytest_report_header(
-        )
+                config=self.config, startdir=self.startdir
-        self._write_report_lines_from_hooks(lines)
+            )
+            self._write_report_lines_from_hooks(lines)
 
     def _write_report_lines_from_hooks(
         self, lines: List[Union[str, List[str]]]
@@ -775,7 +798,7 @@ class TerminalReporter:
             ExitCode.USAGE_ERROR,
             ExitCode.NO_TESTS_COLLECTED,
         )
-        if exitstatus in summary_exit_codes:
+        if exitstatus in summary_exit_codes and self.no_summary == 0:
             self.config.hook.pytest_terminal_summary(
                 terminalreporter=self, exitstatus=exitstatus, config=self.config
             )