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driver.get(url) not executing

I am trying to automate some web scrapping in chrome
Previously I was trying it with a different method where the chrome used to open in guest mode and it was working, here is the previous method
url = 'https://stackoverflow.com/'#Example chrome = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())
chrome.get(url)
But when I shifted the method, where the chrome would open logged in by default, it is showing problems, there is no error, but driver.get(url) is not working, infact any lines after webdriver.Chrome... are not working
Here is the code after changes
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument(r"user-data-dir=C:\\Users\user\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default")
url = "https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r"C:\\Users\user\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe", options=options)
print("h")
driver.get(url)

This is where you made a mistake.
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r"C:\\Users\user\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe", options=options)
you need to pass the PATH of the chrome driver Not the chrome browser installed path.
if you not sure path and your chrome browser compatibility then use below code.
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service(ChromeDriverManager().install()),options=options)

webdriver_manager opens google chrome instead of brave

webdriver_manager site has a code to start webdriver with brave, but instead of brave it opens it with google chrome. My selenium version 4.6.0 gave the following code for selenium 4 (I also tried the given codes for selenium 3) as it can be seen on the site, but the webdriver still opens with chrome
# selenium 4
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service as BraveService
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from webdriver_manager.core.utils import ChromeType
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=BraveService(ChromeDriverManager(chrome_type=ChromeType.BRAVE).install()))
driver.get("https://pypi.org/project/webdriver-manager/")

Okay, so you just want to start a driver with Brave browser instead of chrome? Here is how I do that simplely, keep in mind I'm on Mac. You need the binaryPATH to the application.
add_block_ext = "Path to .crx extension"
driverPath = 'chromedriver'
binaryPath = '/Applications/Brave Browser.app/Contents/MacOS/Brave Browser'
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.binary_location = binaryPath
options.add_extension(add_block_ext)
browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=binaryPath, chrome_options=options)
browser.get("https://www.google.com")

Cannot use "get" function to load site after opening chrome with active profile on Chrome with Selenium?

I am sucesfully able to load my chrome profile using the flags:
user-data-dir as well as profile-directory, yet once the profile is loaded and the chrome window is actually open, no webpage appears. It simply gets stuck on a blank screen.
When I remove the code for the profile it is actually able to open the webpage stored in the login-url variable.
Tried updating to latest version of chrome (94.0.4606.81) and I also used the exact steps listed here to ensure I have the right chrome driver version.
I also did the obvious like making sure there are not any instances of chrome running in the background.
Code is as follows:
import os
from os.path import exists
import selenium
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
headless = False
login_url = "https://google.com)"
def startChrome():
global headless
try:
chrome_options = Options()
if headless:
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
chrome_options.add_argument("----user-data-dir=C:/Users/ERIK/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data")
chrome_options.add_argument("--profile-directory=Profile 1")
global driver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(path+"/chromedriver.exe", options=chrome_options)
except:
print("Failed to start Chrome!")
input()
exit()
startChrome()
driver.get(login_url)
input()

The following successfully opens google.com for me.
Selenium Version 3.141.0
ChromeDriver Version 94.0.4606.61
Chrome Version 94.0.4606.71
from os import path
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
def getDriver(profile_directory, headless = False):
chrome_options = Options()
if headless:
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
userDataDir = path.expandvars(r"%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data")
chrome_options.add_argument(f"--user-data-dir={userDataDir}")
chrome_options.add_argument(f"--profile-directory={profile_directory}")
return webdriver.Chrome("./chromedriver.exe", options=chrome_options)
driver = getDriver("Profile 2")
driver.get("https://google.com")

Python Srceenshot with PhantomJS in Kali

I want to take a screenshot with Selenium PhantomJS, as the Chrome and Firefox --headless options are much slower. Here is my code for it:
import selenium
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.PhantomJS()
driver.get('https://www.google.com')
driver.set_window_size(1920, 1080)
driver.save_screenshot('screenshot.png')
driver.quit()
The .png file this creates is 0 bytes, which is thus useless.
The following code on the other hand works just fine, although much slower, as the --headless option for Chrome opens and closes the browser.
import selenium
from selenium import webdriver
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--headless')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options = options, executable_path = r'C:\Users\a\Selenium\chromedriver.exe')
driver.get('https://www.google.com')
driver.set_window_size(1920, 1080)
driver.save_screenshot('screenshot.png')

Disable python chrome driver extensions without lose driver path

I started having issues running a python script which uses selenium and chrome driver, so I want to disable extensions of chrome driver using python without losing the path where the driver is located.
Currently I have the below:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
path_to_Ie = 'C:\\Python34\\ChromeDriver\\ChromeDriver.exe'
browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path = path_to_Ie)
url = 'https://wwww.test.com/'
browser.get(url)
and I would like to add the below lines:
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")
browser = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options)
Any idea how I can merge both codes to make it work properly?
Thanks a lot.

Just provide multiple keyword arguments:
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")
browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=path_to_Ie, chrome_options=chrome_options)