I am automating a form-filler using selenium, however the issue is the user needs to be logged in to their google account. Selenium is opening up a new browser instance where the user is not logged in. I cannot automate the log in process due to 2 factor authentication.
So far I've found
import webbrowser
webbrowser.open('www.google.com', new = 2)
which will open the window the way I want with the user logged in, however I am unable to interact with the page unlike selenium. Is there a way I can get selenium to open a window like webbrowser? Or is there a way to interact with the page with webbrowser? I have checked the docs of both and not seen an answer to this
You don't need to make the user log in again to their user account. You can use the same chrome profile that you have for your browser. This will enabled you to use all your accounts from chrome without making them log explicitly.
Here is how you can do this :
First get the user chrome profile path
Mine was : C:\Users\hpoddar\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data
If you have multiple profiles you might need to get the Profile id for your chrome google account as well.
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium import webdriver
chrome_path = r"C:\Users\hpoddar\Desktop\Tools\chromedriver_win32\chromedriver.exe"
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument(r"--user-data-dir=C:\Users\hpoddar\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data")
# Specify this if multiple profiles in chrome
# options.add_argument('--profile-directory=Profile 1')
s = Service(chrome_path)
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=s, options=options)
driver.get("https://www.google.co.in")
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I was trying to control an already open instance of Chrome, but when that didn't work, I started to try to make a new instance of Chrome on my profile. I found two stackoverflow posts detailing the problem (How to use Chrome Profile in Selenium Webdriver Python 3 and Selenium: get() not working with custom google profile) but neither solution worked. I have two code blocks, both of which has its own problem.
The first thing I tried was this:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument(r"--user-data-dir=C:\\Users\\EliBa\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data")
options.add_argument(r'--profile-directory=Default')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\\Selenium Drivers\\chromedriver.exe', chrome_options=options)
driver.get("https://google.com")
While this opened my profile, it did not open google like I asked it to. The second thing I tried was this:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
options = Options()
options.add_argument("user-data-dir=C:\\Users\\EliBa\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data\\Default")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='C:\\Selenium Drivers\\chromedriver.exe', options=options)
driver.get("https://www.google.com")
While this opened Google, it did not open my custom profile. Does anyone know what I should be putting so that the custom profile opens AND it loads the site I ask it to?
I want to open a browser that is logged in to my gmail account like my default browser in selenium. Is there a way to do this?
edit:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("user-data-dir=C:\\Path") #Path to your chrome profile
w = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:\\Users\\chromedriver.exe", chrome_options=options)
this method does not work for me.
Chrome Options
Chrome options are very particular on how you call them. Syntax needs to be followed with perfection. Correct your below syntax errors by changing your old code:
options.add_argument("user-data-dir=C:\\Path")
To the following code:
userdatadir = 'C:/Users/<user>/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data'
chromeOptions.add_argument(f"--user-data-dir={userdatadir}")
You can use your profile that you use to open browser:
from selenium import webdriver
profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile('/home/user/.mozilla/firefox/xxxx-release/') # this work for linux, if you use windows, you can find this file in local AppData
browser = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path='./geckodriver', firefox_profile =profile)
This will use your standard profile that you use with your standard browser, including logins, cookies etc.
Edit:
I used firefox here, but the same principle works with chrome as well.
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument(f"user-data-dir={CHROME_USER_DIR}")
options.add_argument("profile-directory=Default")
This will open the Default Profile in Chrome.
The user-data-dir looks something like C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data
To open a different profile, replace the Default with your profile directory
I'm using Selenium and ChromeDriver to scrape data from a website.
I need to keep my account logged in after closing the Driver: for this purpose I use every time the default Chrome profile.
Here you can see my code:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
urlpage = 'https://example.com/'
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("user-data-dir=C:\\Users\\MyName\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
driver.get(urlpage)
The problem is that for some websites (e.g. https://projecteuler.net/) it works, so I'm logged in also the following session, but for other (like https://www.fundraiso.ch, the one I need) it doesn't, although in the "normal" browser I'm still logged in after I close the window.
Does anyone know how to fix this problem?
EDIT:
I didn't mention that I can't automate the login because the website has a maximum login number, and if I breach it the website will block my account.
I'm working on trying to automate a game I want to get ahead in called pokemon vortex and when I login using selenium it works just fine, however when I attempt to load a page that requires a user to be logged in I am sent right back to the login page (I have tried it outside of selenium with the same browser, chrome).
This is what I have
import time
from selenium import webdriver
from random import randint
driver = webdriver.Chrome(r'C:\Program Files (x86)\SeleniumDrivers\chromedriver.exe')
driver.get('https://zeta.pokemon-vortex.com/dashboard/');
time.sleep(5) # Let the user actually see something!
usernameLoc = driver.find_element_by_id('myusername')
passwordLoc = driver.find_element_by_id('mypassword')
usernameLoc.send_keys('mypassword')
passwordLoc.send_keys('12345')
submitButton = driver.find_element_by_id('submit')
submitButton.submit()
time.sleep(3)
driver.get('https://zeta.pokemon-vortex.com/map/10')
time.sleep(10)
I'm using python 3.6+ and I literally just installed selenium today so it's up to date, how do I force selenium to hold onto cookies?
Using a pre-defined user profile might solve your problem. This way your cache will be saved and will not be deleted.
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
options = Options()
options.add_argument("--user-data-dir=C:/Users/user_name/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
driver.get("xyz.com")
I am automating certain tasks using Web Browser with Selenium. Suppose I open a webpage say Facebook or Quora using webdriver, the page that opened asks for the username and password again even though I am still logged in.
from selenium import webdriver
b = webdriver.Chrome()
b.get("https://www.quora.com/")
I want the webdriver to use and retain the information of the current session so that I am able to land on my profile without having to enter my username and password again. How can I achieve this? Thanks.
Edit 1 : I tried pointing it to the chrome user data, but isn't working.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
chrome_option = Options()
chrome_option.add_argument('user-data-dir=~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default')
b = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="/Users/mymac/Downloads/chromedriver",chrome_options=chrome_option)
b.get("https://www.quora.com/")