How can I launch Chrome with an unpacked extension?

Question

I\'m using Selenium WebDriver to test a Google Chrome extension I\'m developing. I noticed that ChromeDriver can be customised to add extensions to the instance

Answer 1

In Python3 it can be done like this:

from selenium.webdriver import Chrome, ChromeOptions

options = ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("load-extension=/path/to/unpacked_ext")

driver = Chrome("/path/to/chromedriver", options=options)

# (optional) Look at the uploaded extension
driver.get("chrome://extensions")