How to open a Chrome Profile through Python

Question

My script I have been writing has been working great. I just added the option so it would open a profile on chrome using this code.

options = webdriver.Chrom         


        

Answer 1

To create and open a new Chrome Profile you need to follow the following steps :

• Open Chrome browser, click on the Side Menu and click on Settings on which the url chrome://settings/ opens up.
• In People section, click on Manage other people on which a popup comes up.
• Click on ADD PERSON, provide the person name, select an icon, keep the item Create a desktop shortcut for this user checked and click on ADD button.
• Your new profile gets created.
• Snapshot of a new profile SeLeNiUm

• Now a desktop icon will be created as SeLeNiUm - Chrome
• From the properties of the desktop icon SeLeNiUm - Chrome get the name of the profile directory. e.g. --profile-directory="Profile 2"

• Get the absolute path of the profile-directory in your system as follows :

  C:\\Users\\Otaku_Wiz\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data\\Profile 2
  

• Now pass the value of profile-directory through an instance of Options with add_argument() method along with key user-data-dir as follows :

  from selenium import webdriver
  from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
  
  options = Options()
  options.add_argument("user-data-dir=C:\\Users\\AtechM_03\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data\\Profile 2")
  driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\path\to\chromedriver.exe', chrome_options=options)
  driver.get("https://www.google.co.in")
  

• Execute your Test

• Observe Chrome gets initialized with the Chrome Profile as SeLeNiUm