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Sam
Sam

Reputation: 42357

How can I launch Chrome with an unpacked extension?

I'm using Selenium WebDriver to test a Google Chrome extension I'm developing. I noticed that ChromeDriver can be customised to add extensions to the instance of Chrome that it launches. This can be achieved using the AddExtension and AddExtensions methods of the ChromeOptions class.

The documentation for these methods indicates that they require extensions to be provided as crx files. Since I'm developing the extension, I don't have a crx file. I would like to be able to load the unpacked extension, but I couldn't find a method to do this.

I tried putting the extension files in a zip file and specifying this for the AddExtension method, but this caused an exception to occur since it wasn't a crx file. I also tried passing in the directory containing the unpacked files, but this produced a FileNotFoundException.

How can I do this?

Upvotes: 16

Views: 14745

Answers (7)

souparno majumder
souparno majumder

Reputation: 2052

Here is apython example using webdriver_manager 

from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager


options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
# loading the extension Edit-This-Cookie
options.add_argument("--load-extension=./Edit-This-Cookie")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install(), chrome_options=options)

driver.get("https://google.com")

Upvotes: 1

Beni Trainor
Beni Trainor

Reputation: 390

In Python3 it can be done like this:

from selenium.webdriver import Chrome, ChromeOptions

options = ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("load-extension=/path/to/unpacked_ext")

driver = Chrome("/path/to/chromedriver", options=options)

# (optional) Look at the uploaded extension
driver.get("chrome://extensions")

Upvotes: 0

rednoyz
rednoyz

Reputation: 1327

For packed extensions (a .crx file)

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addExtensions(new File("/path/to/extension.crx"));
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
capabilities.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);
ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(capabilities);

For unpacked extensions (a local folder)

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("load-extension=/path/to/extension");
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
capabilities.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);
ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(capabilities);

source

Upvotes: 3

Syam
Syam

Reputation: 11

The unpacked extension error popped up for me and I requested for removing the restrictions in chrome which was enforced as organizational policy. Once the restrictions were removed, I am able to run the program with out any errors. ChromeBrowser-GPO-Deny - this was the one which was removed. You can check in Settings - Extensions - Check on Developer mode and see if the load unpacked extensions is checked once the restrictions are removed. You should be good then. All the above will work only when the chrome is not restricted.

Upvotes: 1

djangofan
djangofan

Reputation: 29669

The Selenium documentation has an example like this for a packed ( not unpacked) extension:

capabilities.setCapability("platform", "Windows 8" );
capabilities.setCapability("version", "10");
capabilities.setCapability("name", testname);
capabilities.setCapability("screen-resolution", "1280x1024");
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addExtensions(new File("/path/to/extension.crx"));
capabilities.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);
if (isLocal) driver = new ChromeDriver(capabilities);

Upvotes: -1

user1596115
user1596115

Reputation: 321

It may be late but for future users:

https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/extensions

Upvotes: 2

Sam
Sam

Reputation: 42357

I was able to achieve this by using the AddArgument method to directly pass the information to Chrome. Here's what it looks like in C#:

options = new ChromeOptions();
options.AddArgument("--load-extension=" + unpackedExtensionPath);

Upvotes: 20

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