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lucas
lucas

Reputation: 1505

exclude switches in firefox webdriver options

Using Selenium and python, I can do this with Chrome webdriver:

options.add_experimental_option("excludeSwitches", ["enable-automation"])
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options = options)

but I can't find a similar attribute for Firefox's webdriver options. Does one exist?

Upvotes: 20

Views: 10573

Answers (2)

CST
CST

Reputation: 777

Firefox uses different flags. I am not sure exactly what your aim is but I am assuming you are trying to avoid some website detecting that you are using selenium.

There are different methods to avoid websites detecting the use of Selenium.

1) The value of navigator.webdriver is set to true by default when using Selenium. This variable will be present in Chrome as well as Firefox. This variable should be set to "undefined" to avoid detection.

2) A proxy server can also be used to avoid detection.

3) Some websites are able to use the state of your browser to determine if you are using Selenium. You can set Selenium to use a custom browser profile to avoid this.

The code below uses all three of these approaches.

profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile('C:\\Users\\You\\AppData\\Roaming\\Mozilla\\Firefox\\Profiles\\something.default-release')

PROXY_HOST = "12.12.12.123"
PROXY_PORT = "1234"
profile.set_preference("network.proxy.type", 1)
profile.set_preference("network.proxy.http", PROXY_HOST)
profile.set_preference("network.proxy.http_port", int(PROXY_PORT))
profile.set_preference("dom.webdriver.enabled", False)
profile.set_preference('useAutomationExtension', False)
profile.update_preferences()
desired = DesiredCapabilities.FIREFOX

driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=profile, desired_capabilities=desired)

Upvotes: 12

olli_kahn
olli_kahn

Reputation: 167

you may try:

from selenium.webdriver.firefox.firefox_profile import FirefoxProfile
from selenium.webdriver import DesiredCapabilities
from selenium.webdriver import Firefox


profile = FirefoxProfile()
profile.set_preference('devtools.jsonview.enabled', False)
profile.update_preferences()
desired = DesiredCapabilities.FIREFOX

driver = Firefox(firefox_profile=profile, desired_capabilities=desired)

Upvotes: 3

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