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I am currently using Selenium to run instances of Chrome to test web pages. Each time my script runs, a clean instance of Chrome starts up (clean of extensions, bookmarks, browsing history, etc). I was wondering if it's possible to run my script with Chrome extensions. I've tried searching for a Python example, but nothing came up when I googled this.
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We can use extensions with Selenium webdriver in Python. We can have multiple extensions of the Chrome browser while we manually open the browser and work on it. However, while the Chrome browser is opened through Selenium webdriver, those extensions which are available to the local browser will not be present.
Using install_addon API of Selenium WebDriver to add Firefox extensions using Python. The install_addon method of the Selenium WebDriver takes two input arguments – path to the desired Firefox extension and a Boolean value which indicates whether installation of the extension is temporary (or not).
You should use Chrome WebDriver options to set a list of extensions to load. Here's an example:
import os from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options executable_path = "path_to_webdriver" os.environ["webdriver.chrome.driver"] = executable_path chrome_options = Options() chrome_options.add_extension('path_to_extension') driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=executable_path, chrome_options=chrome_options) driver.get("http://stackoverflow.com") driver.quit() Hope that helps.
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