After switching to ChromeDriverManager().install(),I am not able to use default profile.Any workaround there so that I can avoid logging in every time?
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service(ChromeDriverManager().install()),....)
used many solutions found here, but still not working. directories: user-data-dir=C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data user-data-dir=C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
To use the default profile, you have to mention the path like below:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
options = Options()
# path of the chrome profile's parent directory
options.add_argument(r"user-data-dir=C:\\Users\\User\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data")
# name of the directory
options.add_argument("--profile-directory=Default")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service(ChromeDriverManager().install()), options=options)
You may be hitting a Selenium/Chrome profile lock issue. When Chrome is started using a particular user profile, that profile directory is locked by the running process. If a new Chrome instance (launched via ChromeDriver) tries to reuse or access the same profile while another instance is still using it, Chrome opens but may fail to load the default profile
To address this, you can approach it from several angles: What you’re likely running into
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1)Close any opened instance of browser first,
if not Open browser and close it ,so that it ensures clean exit
