How to address "Options is not defined error" in Python Selenium?

Question

I've recently have gotten a problem where, while using Selenium, wanted to use my default chrome browser profile, so it's signed in and everything, but when searched up on google, it gave me a code which is basicallty this:

chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("[path to the profile]")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options, executable_path=[path to the webdriver])

The error that I've been getting is:

NameError: name 'Options' is not defined

How can I fix this and maybe there's a better way to load a chrome profile?

Answer 1

There are two things. Possibly you haven't imported the required module for Options. So to use an instance of Options you have to include the following import:

from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

Moreover, chrome_options is deprecated and you have to use options instead. So your effective code block will be:

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

chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("[path to the profile]")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options, executable_path=[path to the webdriver])