Google chrome closes immediately after being launched with selenium

Question

I am on Mac OS X using selenium with python 3.6.3.

This code runs fine, opens google chrome and chrome stays open.:

chrome_options = Options()
chrome         


        

Answer 1

As per the code block you shared there can be 3 possible solutions as follows :

• In the binary_location you have to change the .. to . (. denotes Project Workspace)
• In the binary_location you have to change the .. to /myspace/chrome (Absolute Chrome Binary)

• While initiating the driver, add the switch executable_path :

  driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options, executable_path=r'/your_path/chromedriver')
  

Answer 2

To make the borwser stay open I am doing this:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

def browser_function():
    driver_path = "path/to/chromedriver"
    chr_options = Options()
    chr_options.add_experimental_option("detach", True)
    chr_driver = webdriver.Chrome(driver_path, options=chr_options)
    chr_driver.get("https://target_website.com")