Changing Chrome Preferences Through Script

Question

Is it possible to alter your preferences Preferences on your chrome browser through a script? Is this done with selenium? Can anyone help me by writing a python script to change one radio button on the chrome preferences page? Thanks

Answer 1

it is possible to alter the preferences, not sure if this has been answered for you already but it is done on a user by user basis so if you have more than one user you will need to alter the preferences for each of the accounts, but the preferences file is found in:
Windows: "%LocalAppData%\Google\Chrome\User Data\"
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/
Linux: ~/.config/google-chrome/
it depends on how many accounts have chrome setup but if its just the one the default account is as you guessed it "Default" so it will be in the folder Default inside that folder.

In the Default folder there is a file called Preferences this particular file is a JSON file and it is setup with the preferences for both extensions and for the chrome user (just to note the file extension is blank but its is formatted in JSON), if you wish to adjust it i recommend take a copy of the file and then open Chrome change the setting you wanted to change then close Chrome and compare the two so you know exactly which setting to change, then its just a matter of a string regular expression replacement to modify it.

Hope this helps.