While executing Selenium script in Chrome browser getting failed to load extension error

Question

I am executing selenium script in Chrome browser, during this am getting Manifest file is missing or unreadable error.

Attaching the error screenshot. Please help me here.

Chrome Error screenshot

Answer 1

If you are trying to load an extension (i.e., like you would typically load a folder into chrome for testing), then it needs to be zipped for selenium. I ran into the same error when using the top answer on the cited source below chrome_options.add_extension('path_to_extension'). Zipping the file worked for me.

See https://stackoverflow.com/a/51528329