For the record: this is no longer an issue since Brave went full-Chromium (starting from version 0.57). I can now pass instructions to the WebDriver by initializing it using the code snippet included in the question. Nevertheless, be sure to check that your ChromeDriver version is compatible with your Brave Browser version.
I finally managed to make it work: Try this python script (python3.7) from selenium import webdriver driver_path = “C:/Users/username/PycharmProjects/chromedriver.exe” brave_path = “C:/Program Files (x86)/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Application/brave.exe” option = webdriver.ChromeOptions() option.binary_location = brave_path # option.add_argument(“–incognito”) OPTIONAL # option.add_argument(“–headless”) OPTIONAL # Create new Instance of Chrome browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=driver_path, chrome_options=option) browser.get(“https://www.google.es”) cheers.
To initiate a brave browsing context you need to: Use the binary_location attribute to point to the brave binary location. Use the chromedriver executable to initiate the brave browser. Code block: from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service option = webdriver.ChromeOptions() option.binary_location = r’C:\Program Files (x86)\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe’ driverService = Service(‘C:/Users/…/chromedriver.exe’) driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=driverService, options=option) driver.get(“https://www.google.com”) … Read more