Accept permission request in chrome using selenium

Question

I have a HTML/Javascript file with google's web speech api and I'm doing testing using selenium, however everytime I enter the site the browser requests permission to use my microphone and I have to click on 'ALLOW'.

How do I make selenium click on ALLOW automatically ?

Answer 1

Wrestled with this quite a bit myself.

The easiest way to do this is to avoid getting the permission prompt is to add --use-fake-ui-for-media-stream to your browser switches.

Here's some shamelessly modified code from @ExperimentsWithCode's answer:

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

chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--use-fake-ui-for-media-stream")

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="path/to/chromedriver", chrome_options=chrome_options)

Answer 2

So I just ran into another question asking about disabling a different prompt box. It seems there may be a way for you to accomplish your goal.

This page lists options for starting chrome. One of the options is

--disable-user-media-security

"Disables some security measures when accessing user media devices like webcams and microphones, especially on non-HTTPS pages"

So maybe this will work for you:

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

chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-user-media-security=true")

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="path/to/chromedriver", chrome_options=chrome_options)