Chromedriver and selenium making a guest account instead of using actual account

Question

I am trying to get selenium chromedriver to access a specific account. I did what I read online but it is making and accessing a guest account instead:

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() 

options.add_argument (r'--user-data-dir=C:\Users\mainuser\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Profile 1');
options.add_argument("--profile-directory=Profile 1");


driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options = options)
driver.get('https://hoopshype.com/salaries/players/')
players = driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//td[@class="name"]')

I want it to access an already signed in google account. What should I do to make it do that?

@crissal is there not a way to launch it directly in the account? — Ricccccccccc, May 16 '21 at 19:02
Try [this answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/31063104/11647025) — crissal, May 16 '21 at 19:12
@crissal still does the same thing, I got the code from that answer — Ricccccccccc, May 16 '21 at 19:19
@crissal nevermind, doing this solved my problem: 'options.add_argument(r'--user-data-dir=C:\Users\mainuser\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data') options.add_argument('--profile-directory=Profile 1')' — Ricccccccccc, May 16 '21 at 19:23

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 16 '21 at 19:25

FIXED Found the answer:

options.add_argument(r'--user-data-dir=C:\Users\ricca\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data')
options.add_argument('--profile-directory=Profile 1')

now it is refusing to go to the website though, ill see what the problem is there an fix it.

Chromedriver and selenium making a guest account instead of using actual account

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