I am trying to get headless Chrome to work while setting a user data dir using the following:
from selenium import webdriver
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions();
options.add_argument('--user-data-dir=./User_Data')
options.add_argument('--headless')
browser = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
This returns this error message:
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist
none of the following prevents this message from showing up (as suggested here: WebDriverException: unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist while trying to initiate Chrome Browser)
options.add_argument("start-maximized")
options.add_argument("disable-infobars")
options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")
options.add_argument("--disable-gpu")
options.add_argument("--disable-dev-shm-usage")
options.add_argument("--no-sandbox")
options.add_experimental_option("useAutomationExtension", False)
The only thing I could find that prevents this error from showing up is adding this argument:
options.add_argument('--remote-debugging-port=45447')
This at least starts up a headless Chrome, but still does not pick up the user dir specified, when running without the headless argument everything seems to be working as expected.
How do I get a headless chrome to use the user data dir?
