Use existing Firefox session in Selenium and Perl

Question

I have existing Firefox session with appropriate login data to interesting site. Now I want to use it with Selenium and Perl. I am using this code:

my $driver = Selenium::Remote::Driver->new;
$driver->get("http://www.google.com");
$driver->find_element('q','name')->send_keys("Hello WebDriver!");
print $driver->get_title() . "\n";

But this code opens new blank session of Firefox. How can I use my existing session with already set up cookies?

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:24

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You want to specify a Firefox profile to use.

In Java, it'd be something like this...

ProfilesIni profile = new ProfilesIni();
FirefoxProfile firefoxProfile = profile.getProfile("Default"); // might need to switch this around depending on what it actually is named.
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(firefoxProfile);

(credit to this answer for the pseudo-code)

edited May 23 '17 at 10:24

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answered Nov 07 '13 at 15:31

ddavison

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Unfortunately Perl bindings noes not have ProfilesIni class, either it's analogs. – John Smith Nov 08 '13 at 07:16

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 01 '14 at 02:37

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I think you can try with this option in perl driver.

my $handles = $driver->get_window_handles;
   $driver->switch_to_window($handles->[1]);
   $driver->close;
   $driver->switch_to_window($handles->[0]);

I didn't use it, but may be it will help you!

For more information, please refer to this site. https://metacpan.org/pod/Selenium::Remote::Driver

edited Dec 01 '14 at 02:37

AdamMc331

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answered Dec 01 '14 at 02:32

Long Lee

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Use existing Firefox session in Selenium and Perl

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