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Omar Assouma
Omar Assouma

Reputation: 77

Selenium: get() not working with custom google profile

All what im trying to do is pretty much access whatsapp web where I have my whatsapp already linked, However when I use a custom profile the profile does open, however browser.get("https://web.whatsapp.com) doesn't seem to open. or any browser.get(). What could be the issue?

from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException, TimeoutException, WebDriverException

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--user-data-dir=/Users/omarassouma/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/')
options.add_experimental_option("deatch", True)

browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome",chrome_options=options)
browser.get("https://web.whatsapp.com/")

this is the updated version, it now opens whatsapp web however not in a custom profile, moreover I cant really use webdriver.options(), is there anything extra I have to import?.

from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager


options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("user-data-dir=/Users/omarassouma/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/User Data/Default")
browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="/Users/omarassouma/Downloads/chromedriver",options=options)
browser.get("https://web.whatsapp.com/")

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1586

Answers (2)

JuliaMiles
JuliaMiles

Reputation: 1

At 05.11.2022 I found the only way to pass through authorization for myself is using cookie - https://stackoverflow.com/a/15058521 Runing selenium driver with google account isn't working to save cookies

import pickle
import selenium.webdriver

driver = selenium.webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://www.google.com")
pickle.dump(driver.get_cookies(), open("cookies.pkl", "wb"))

and to load them

import pickle
import selenium.webdriver

driver = selenium.webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://www.google.com")
cookies = pickle.load(open("cookies.pkl", "rb"))
for cookie in cookies:
    driver.add_cookie(cookie)

Upvotes: 0

undetected Selenium
undetected Selenium

Reputation: 193358

You need to take care of a couple of things as follows:

  • To use a Custome Chrome Profile you have to pass the absolute path as follows:

    options.add_argument("user-data-dir=/Users/omarassouma/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/User Data/Default")

You can find a detailed discussion in How to use Chrome Profile in Selenium Webdriver Python 3

You can find a detailed discussion in DeprecationWarning: use options instead of chrome_options error using Brave Browser With Python Selenium and Chromedriver on Windows

So effectively the line of code will be:

browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="/path/to/chromedriver", options=options)

Upvotes: 1

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