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How to use existing session with Seleniumbase?

I would like seleniumbase to use my existing session when it launches vs starting a clean one.

How do I start selenium using an existing session?

webdriver:

driver = webdriver.Chrome('/snap/bin/chromium.chromedriver', options=option)

UPDATE:

This is marked as a duplicate which it is not.

Dear @TodorMinakov this code here didn't meet my expectations. I wanted whenever I run the python program to select the unique opened window and use selenium over that window. I will appreciate your help. – Youssof H

Same issue here. The referred URL does not grab an existing session.

Solution

  • You can use default chrome profile.

    options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() 
options.add_argument("user-data-dir=PATH") #)PATH is path to your chrome profile
w = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:\\Users\\chromedriver.exe", chrome_options=options)

    To find path to your chrome profile data you need to type chrome://version/ into address bar. For ex. mine is displayed as C:\Users\pc\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default,

    If path will not work, try to remove \Default\ so we end up with only C:\Users\pc\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data.

    Better to copy-paste default profile outside, because there no way to use same session (cookies) in two browsers in same time.