How can I make the selenium chromedriver make wait until it maximizes the window?

Question

I've been messing around with python/selenium a bit, now I got to use the "try" method. I want the driver to wait until it maximized the window, and then go on with the code. At the beginning it just went on executing all scripts and the chrome window got maximized whilst executing it, which looked pretty weird. Anyways I hope you can help me, Have a good day y'all ;))

Ah, here's the code: (And the error message beneath it)

from selenium import webdriver
import time
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC


driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\Users\Anyone\Desktop\Python\chromedriver.exe')

print("Automation Started, please hold on.")

driver.get("https://blablabla")

try:
    recap = WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(
        EC.WebDriverException(driver.maximize_window())

    )
finally:
    driver.forward()

And here's the error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/Anyone/PycharmProjects/blebleble/blablabla.py", line 17, in <module>
    EC.WebDriverException(driver.maximize_window())
  File "C:\Users\Anyone\PycharmProjects\blablabla\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\support\wait.py", line 71, in until
    value = method(self._driver)
TypeError: 'WebDriverException' object is not callable

Swaroop Humane · Answer 1 · 2020-07-21T23:02:49.983

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After making driver object use the below code:-

driver.manage().window().maximize();

and remove the try/finally block.

edited Jul 21 '20 at 23:02

answered Jul 21 '20 at 22:56

Swaroop Humane

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 21 '20 at 23:03

Don't wait for the Selenium driven ChromeDriver initiated google-chrome Browsing Context to open first and then maximize it.

Instead, add the argument start-maximized and configure the driver, so the Google Chrome Browsing Context opens up maximized using the solution below:

from selenium import webdriver

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() 
options.add_argument("start-maximized")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options, executable_path=r'C:\WebDrivers\chromedriver.exe')
driver.get("https://blablabla")

How can I make the selenium chromedriver make wait until it maximizes the window?

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