selenium can't open page after set new user-data-dir

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I use python and selenium to operate chrome,if I use default user-data-dir it works,but use new user-data-dir it blocks before opening first url.

  #default_path = r'C:\Users\%s\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data' % username 
    default_path = r'D:\User Data'
    option.add_argument('--user-data-dir=%s' % default_path)
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=option,executable_path=r'C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\chromedriver.exe')

After test I found the chrome blocks because it can't load google.com in china! if i don't use 'user-data-dir' argument,it use 'data:,' as default address. So I want to know how can I open chrome without open google.com as default address(such as use 'data:,' )

Check this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49270109/how-to-open-a-chrome-profile-through-python/49280195#49280195 — undetected Selenium, Jul 11 '18 at 10:23

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 11 '18 at 08:32

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Here you can find list of chromium command line switches. I believe it's also valid for chrome. There is --homepage switch, that allows setting homepage to be opened in any new opened tab. So I believe you can solve your problem by setting:

option.add_argument('--homepage=%s' % some_page_other_than_google)

answered Jul 11 '18 at 08:32

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it doesn't work,the chrome doesn't open homepage ever ,but I found a solution for this problem: option.add_argument(' google-base-url=MY_URL') – mengzz Jul 12 '18 at 08:04

selenium can't open page after set new user-data-dir

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