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MDNic
MDNic

Reputation: 1

Selenium Chrome Driver opens a different page than regular Chrome Browser

I'm trying to pull some information from this URL and ones like it: "https://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/tires-and-wheels/tusk-impact-complete-wheel-rear-p?s=1033997&v=1216"

My goal is to get the MSRP and other info for a specific part. To do this, I'm using python to run a selenium chrome webdriver that opens several of these URLs. The problem is the links aren't opening with the same information that I would get in my regular Chrome browser.

The link is supposed to contain all the information to "select a vehicle" and thus a specific part. When I open this in my regular chrome browser, everything works fine. When I open this using the automated Chrome page, it fails to select a vehicle and shows a general part page.

I can't figure out what the difference might be between these two browsers that would cause this. My regular chrome browser and the chromedriver are both version 81.0.4044.113. I've tried going to whatismybrowser.com and all settings are identical. Another interesting thing is opening this in internet explorer gives me the same result as the automated chrome browser. Help!

regular chrome browser

automated chrome browser

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1560

Answers (1)

Kumar Rishabh
Kumar Rishabh

Reputation: 405

The Regular chrome browser is fetching the details of your bike(Something -- yamaha 125). It could be from past cookies or cache.

However, once you are opening it with Automation, a clean session s opened.

Try cleaning your cookies and cache on the browser(regular) and then try, both of them should appear same.

Or you can use options in chrome to select the profile your regular chrome browser is using. See https://startingwithseleniumwebdriver.blogspot.com/2015/07/working-with-chrome-profile-with.html.

Hope it Helps!

Upvotes: 1

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