Selenium chromedriver doesn't open an existing profile even when told to

Question

Recently I've been trying to get selenium webdriver to connect to an already existing profile. I've got the code below.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

options = Options()
options.add_argument("user-data-dir=C:\\Users\\me\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data\\Profile 19")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'path\to\chromedriver.exe', options = options)

Now what this is supposed to do is launch an existing chrome user, which in my case I created just for this. But instead, it only launches a guest user. I've already tried it with the \Default user in which case it connects just fine, but instead it cannot navigate to any website. I'm appreciative of any help <3

Answer 1

According to Load Chrome Profile using Selenium WebDriver using java your profile should be put in another option:

options.add_argument("user-data-dir=C:\\Users\\me\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data")
options.add_argument("profile-directory=Profile 19")