Preserving cookies between sessions - selenium

Question

I need to make sure that a browser is trusted every time the session is when performing Selenium script in Node.js (If the browser is not trusted by the server it resets in MFA with SMSes which I would like to avoid).
In Puppeteer it is simple by:
const browser = await puppeteer.launch({headless: false,
userDataDir: "./user_data"});
I would love to stay with puppeteer because of that but I have a dropdown selector on the page accessible only by name or xpath and page and page.select requires CSS selector:-(.
So I moved back to Selenium, but there I have this persistency problem:
At the end of a session I have:
var allCokies = await driver.manage().getCookies(); fs.writeFile("/Users/matnikr/Documents/scrape/selenium/cookies.json",JSON.stringify(allCokies), function(err){
if (err) {return console.log(err)}
console.log('file saved');})
A the begining I have:
driver = await new Builder().forBrowser('chrome').build();
var allCokies = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync("/Users/matnikr/Documents/angular\ code/Aliorscrape/selenium/cookies.json","utf8"));
for (var key in allCokies){
await driver.manage().addCookie(allCokies[key])
}
await driver.get('https:*******/do/Login');
And every time it feels like "incognito" session is started. Browser is untrusted. Any help appreciated.

Answer 1

Did you try to do the same as you did with Puppeteer? I mean to load a profile. Because it's actually what you did by providing "./user_data" as a userDataDir value.
const { Builder } = require('selenium-webdriver');
const { Options } = require('selenium-webdriver/chrome');
function buildChromeDriver() {
const options = new Options();
options.addArguments('user-data-dir=./user_data');
return new Builder()
.forBrowser('chrome')
.setChromeOptions(options)
.build();
}
You can always verify the loaded profile by opening chrome://version in the browser:
driver.get('chrome://version');