Load Default chrome profile with Webdriverjs Selenium

Question

I am new to Selenium and Webdriver. I am trying to write tests using Webdriverjs in node. I want selenium to load my default chrome profile. This is what I am trying, but it still loads a new chrome profile.

var webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver');
var chrome = require('selenium-webdriver/chrome');
var o = new chrome.Options();
o.addArguments("--user-data-dir=/Users/karnesh/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default");
var driver = new webdriver.Builder().withCapabilities(webdriver.Capabilities.chrome())
            .setChromeOptions(o).build();

Any ideas where I am going wrong??

Also, I was not able to find a documentation for webdriverjs. Any links to it (if it exists) would be helpful . Thanks

If I use your code here, it works: the instance started by Selenium uses the directory specified by --user-data-dir. Make sure you've got the right path. I installed Selenium 2.46.1. — Louis
– Louis, Commented Jul 30, 2015 at 13:58
@Louis: how do you verify that it uses the right profile? I replaced path with "--user-data-dir=c:\\Users\\a-miste\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data\\Default\\" (I'm on Windows8) and it still loads the new one... — Mars Robertson
– Mars Robertson, Commented Jul 30, 2015 at 14:04
@MichalStefanow I created a fresh profile because I did not want it to use my regular profile. Then I modified this profile by adding a single extension. Then I ran the script. Chrome came up with the extension that I had added to this profile so I know it did not create a brand new profile for the run. I also tried with a space in the profile path and it still worked. (I thought there could have been a bug that makes Selenium incorrectly pass arguments if there is a space in the middle of a path.) — Louis
– Louis, Commented Jul 30, 2015 at 14:09
@Louis - thank you for taking your time for clarify. BTW - how do you run Selenium? I'm using node scriptname.js and then using node-inspector I can see what are the values during execution: i.imgur.com/xcBn6wM.png - but still - new profile gets created everytime... (weird) — Mars Robertson
– Mars Robertson, Commented Jul 30, 2015 at 14:18
@MichalStefanow Yep, node test.js. I'm on Linux though and you guys are on Windows. At any rate, this question here is a duplicate of that one. The answers there do not use the leading --. — Louis
– Louis, Commented Jul 30, 2015 at 14:23

Community · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-20 09:12:55Z

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chrome://version is your friend - by using it you can see what is your current profile path.

I'm using 2.46.1 on Windows8 machine and after wasting (investing) a few hours of my time I realised that Default is appended by default.

So in order to use my another profile - "Profile 1" - I have to copy it somewhere and place it under Default directory.

Not sure if that's a bug or a feature.

UPDATE: https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/854

edited Jun 20, 2020 at 9:12

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Glen Pierce Over a year ago

To select a different profile, say Profile 1, use options.addArguments("profile-directory=Profile 1");

Vaibhav_Sharma Over a year ago

I have copied the profile to another location and tried the same but it is not working still and appending the default in the profile path. Any input? I am using macOS. This is my path of chrome profileoptions.addArguments("user-data-dir=/Users/henry/Documents/POC/Profile 4");

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