How to hide the preliminary "data:," that shows up in the url bar when initiating Google Chrome using ChromeDriver?

Question

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options)
driver.get(my_website)

The above code opens my website but only after loading a tab with the title data:, for a second or two. How do I hide it?

Answer 1

Your code successfully opens the website properly through google-chrome after loading a tab with the title data:, for a second or two, is perfectly fine.

The main concern is, your program shouldn't be stuck with data:, in the url bar. Incase this situation happens the simplest solution would be to:

• Check if the url is properly formatted. As an example, you have mentioned the protocol along with the actual url as follows:

  http://localhost:3000
  

• You are using compatibile version of binaries in terms of Google Chrome Browser and ChromeDriver

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References

You can find a couple of relevant discussions in:

• How to work with a specific version of ChromeDriver while Chrome Browser gets updated automatically through Python selenium
• Selenium for ChromeDriver and Chrome Browser and the log message “Only local connections are allowed”
• WebDriverException: Message: Service /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromedriver unexpectedly exited on Raspberry-Pi with ChromeDriver and Selenium
• RemoteDisconnected(“Remote end closed connection without” http.client.RemoteDisconnected: Remote end closed connection without response