I want open Google Chrome, like its self, the chromedriver open it without my cookies, my passwords, my history and all that staff.
i tried to play with the option, and search all over the web for solution,
didn't got one,
plus i tried
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
opt = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
opt.add_arguments("--user-data-dir=C:\Users\Bar\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(opt)
driver.get("https://www.google.com/")
but it didn't work it says:
C:\Users\Bar\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\python.exe C:/Users/Bar/PycharmProjects/yad2/Webdriver.py
File "C:/Users/Bar/PycharmProjects/yad2/Webdriver.py", line 7
opt.add_arguments("--user-data-dir=C:\Users\Bar\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data")
^
SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 18-19: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape
Process finished with exit code 1
Best Answer
It should be
add_argument
instead ofadd_arguments
. You should try as :-Now you need to set this
opt
intochrome_options
and pass it intoChromeDriver
as :-Edited :- You need to download latest
chromedriver.exe
executable from here and extract this zip into at any location of your system and provide this path location with executablechromedriver.exe
asexecutable_path="path/to/chromedriver.exe"
and InitializeChromeDriver
as :-