Disable Shockwave Flash plugin using Selenium with Python

Question

In a crawling project, the Shockwave Flash plugin keeps crashing. Is there a simple way to disable it to begin with?

Many thanks in advance!

Thanks, but in Chrome you cannot uninstall it, you can only disable it. However, when using selenium in the new window it is enabled again. I am looking for a command to disable it. — splinter
– splinter, Commented Jun 16, 2016 at 23:15
does this help? stackoverflow.com/questions/16406719/…, it is not an exact match, it is about disable plugin using selenium and python. — Yu Zhang
– Yu Zhang, Commented Jun 17, 2016 at 4:42

Prune · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-09 23:31:00Z

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This worked for me pretty well.

from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

options= webdriver.ChromeOptions()
profile = {"plugins.plugins_disabled": ["Shockwave Flash"]}
options.add_experimental_option("prefs", profile)

# Make sure to add chrome_options=options 
browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=path,chrome_options = options)

edited Aug 9, 2016 at 23:31

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