How to open a Chrome Profile through Python

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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

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  • 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″

profile-directory

  • 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

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