I don't understand how this works:
If I open a website by hand in for example Safari or Chrome, I can log me on and if I close the browser I automatically log in after reopen the browser. So I once log in in Instagram, the next time I don't have to do it again if I reopen the side.
But if I open it with selenium, it won't work like this. Is there a way to give options in selenium to fix this? I can't open a side without the side thinks iam a robot (what actually is right) but this sucks...
When you quit the webdriver, the cookies, cache, history, etc are deleted. So if you want to be already logged in when you start the webdriver, you have to use the cookies from a profile on the normal browser in which you are already logged in. To do so you have to:
create a new chrome profile on the normal browser
login to instagram
load the profile in selenium
In this way when you start the webdriver and run driver.get('https://www.instagram.com/') you will be already logged in.
To create a new profile, open your chrome browser, click on the profile icon on top right, then click "Add" and then click "Continue without an account".
Then write a name for your profile and be sure check the box "Create a desktop shortcut". I suggest you to choose a color so that you will immediately see if it works when selenium open the browser window.
Open chrome from the new desktop icon (mine is called "PythonSelenium - Chrome.exe") and login to instagram.
After you logged in, close the browser and open the properties of the new desktop shortcut. Take note of the name of the profile directory, which in my case is "Profile 3".
Now we have to tell selenium to open the chrome driver using this new profile we've just created, which is logged in twitch. To do this we need the path of the folder where the profile is stored. By default the path is something like C:\Users\your_username\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data, if you are not sure about it check where chrome is installed in your computer.
Then run this code (remember to substitute Profile 3 with the name of your profile from step 3)
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("user-data-dir=C:\\Users\\your_username\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data")
options.add_argument("profile-directory=Profile 3") # <-- substitute Profile 3 with your profile name
chromedriver_path = '...'
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options, service=Service(chromedriver_path))
driver.get('http://twitch.tv/login') # it should redirect you to the homepage
And this is the result:
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I'm facing an issue when I try to open the browser with RobotFramework in chrome. For some reason chrome forces me to choose the profile. I've tried to add arguments to the options parameter in Open Browser command which indicates the desired profile but for some reason it ends with the same pop-up window again.
Open Browser ${FINESSE_URL} ${BROWSER} options=add_argument("--ignore-certificate-errors");add_argument("--disable-notifications");add_argument("--disable-logging");add_argument("--profile-directory=Default");add_argument("--user-data-dir\=C:/Users/pc/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data");
choose profile screenshot
Can we run selenium in our current account logged in browser ?
Basically if i try logging into google using selenium , its says browser insecure.
i am trying to make a amazon cart auto checkout as a school project
so if i try in my existing browser , my amazon id is already registered and i dont have to sign in again . but if i use amazon login in selenium its asking for signin and 2fa is being sent to my mail id, how to i skip this step and directly go to the logged in page??
please help
You can't use your non-chrome driver browser (aka regular chrome browser). Selenium only works with chrome-drivers. One way remain signed in is to specify a profile in options so that every-time the driver initiates, it loads your cookies and history.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--user-data-dir=Amazon")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options)
From the code above, chrome_options.add_argument("--user-data-dir=Amazon") will create a profile 'Amazon' if not already there, and save cookies and history there.
The next time you run the driver it will load it from 'Amazon'.
Here is a blog that explains how to install a chrome browser remotely on a specific folder by installing a dedicated browser onto it to use selenium with.
This manages all data including cache, history, accounts, etc
for further info refer the link here
Here is a blog that explains how to install a chrome browser remotely on a specific folder by installing a dedicated browser onto it to use selenium with.
This manages all data including cache, history, accounts, etc
for further info refer the link here
https://learn-automation.com/how-to-execute-selenium-scripts-on-already-opened-browser/
I want to open an application website on Firefox browser using Selenium Webdriver as a different user.
Currently, I am using gecko driver to open that application link, it successfully opens up the browser but unable to open the application link.
But I am able to achieve the same manually by going to Mozilla Firefox icon and clicking on
"Run as different user"
option (as shown in below image) which further open a popup for user credentials and by entering Username and Password of different user there I am able to open the application link in browser.
So, is there any way that I can achieve same process using Selenium Webdriver and opens up my application link.
Thanks in Advance!!
You should rather create Firefox profile by running firefox.exe -p to launch profile manager. Then you can instantiate firefox web driver implementation and configure it to use given profile.
Are you sure that you want to use pre-configured profile? I find much easier to manage to run drivers in private/incognito mode and set cookies manually to configure tests.
You might provide firefox_binary as a parameter for the webdriver:
http://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/api.html
firefox_binary – Instance of FirefoxBinary or full path to the Firefox
binary. If undefined, the system default Firefox installation will be used.
...so, you might use a wrapper script to run firefox as the different user (use sudo in Linux).
I have a doubt on how a profile of a browser affects the output of a Selenium script.
Following are the different scenarios:
If any profile is not specified in the Selenium script, then what profile is opened by Selenium? Is it the default profile the browser has or any new profile assigned by Selenium Webdriver?
Let say there is a profile "ABC" specified in a Selenium script. If the script clicks on a link that opens a new window then the new window has which profile? Is it in the same profile "ABC" or any different profile?
If profiles of a different windows are different then has it any effect on cookies and session?
This differs slightly from browser to browser.
On IE, there are obviously no profiles, so the default one is used.
On FF and Chrome (I don't know about Opera), if there's no profile specified, Selenium opens up with a new, clean profile every time.
Any new window opened by WebDriver is of course opened via the current profile. Once WebDriver is instantiated, it used the assigned profile.
All cookies and sessions behave according to the profile settings.
The application I am testing requires pop-up to be enabled. When a launch a new Firefox profile I get the browser message
Firefox prevented this site from opening a pop-up window
with a button on the right called Options. I can manually click the Options button and select to Allow popups from ....
Question is how can I use profile.setPreference to set to allow popups from my website and also not show this Firefox message?
You can save your current Firefox prifile with allowed popups and load it from file like in this case: https://stackoverflow.com/a/6830109/1165331
save you current working profile with popups via browser and loat it.