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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")

Not start Chromium with headless mode from selenium

Lately one of my python selenium script running on Raspi4 linux stops working properly. The same code worked well before and I'm trying to figure out the reason.
The example code below works without headless option, but it is stuck in starting Chromium. Does anyone encounter similar issue?
Chromium and chromedriver version is 97.0.4692.99.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service as ChromeService
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions
url = 'https://www.google.com'
options = Options()
options.add_argument('headless')
#options.add_argument('-headless')
#options.add_argument('--headless')
#options.headless = True
service = ChromeService(executable_path='C:\selenium\driver\chromedriver.exe')
chrome = webdriver.Chrome(service=service, options=options)
chrome.get(url)
chrome.save_screenshot('xx.png')
chrome.close()

Instead of using --headless argument, you need to use the headless property as follows:
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
options = Options()
options.headless = True
Reference
You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussion in:
DeprecationWarning: use setter for headless property instead of set_headless opts.set_headless(headless=True) using Geckodriver and Selenium in Python
How to make Firefox headless programmatically in Selenium with Python?
How to configure ChromeDriver to initiate Chrome browser in Headless mode through Selenium?

Selenium fails logging in to Facebook

When I try to log in to Facebook using Selenium on Python I'm receiving this error.
What can I do to solve this issue?
Many thanks.

If you are using Chrome WebDriver you can try to disable notifications by adding Chrome Options:
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-notifications")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options)

Chrome not going headless

this is my code:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options)
driver.get("https://google.com/")
Yet the browser opens instead of going headless.
Some other arguments do seem to work like --start-maximized

This is redundant but, since I've been asked to do it, https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/headless-chrome says that headless won't be available on Chrome for Windows until version 60.

Headless won't be available on Windows untill Chrome 60.