Why is my spyder kernel crashing after opening a chrome browser instance with my default profile on a Python program? Selenium related

Question

After the very exhaustive research of today, I managed to understand and make a simple program that will use the selenium module to open a chrome window with my user data and default profile, here:

import tkinter as tk 
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service

root = tk.Tk()
root.geometry('500x400') #resolution
root.title("Bulkdozer") #Name of this program
root.attributes('-topmost', True) #keep the program's window top-most

opt = Options() #selenium options
opt.add_argument("--user-data-dir="+r"C:\Users\ResetStoreX\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default") #PATH profile
opt.add_argument('--profile-directory=Default') #Profile to use
s = Service('C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe')

def open_chrome_profile():
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=s, options=opt) 
    driver.get('https://opensea.io/asset/create')
    
#####BUTTON ZONE#######
open_browser = tk.Button(root, width=20,  text="Open OpenSea Tab", command=open_chrome_profile) #executes the function when clicked
open_browser.grid(row=22, column=1)
#####BUTTON ZONE END#######
root.mainloop()

The problem is that it is not working as expected at all:

First, after clicking the Open OpenSea Tab button, the program DOES open a chrome window with my user data and default profile, but it doesn't go to the link provided ('https://opensea.io/asset/create').

And second, it also crashes the GUI without throwing any errors, and even worse, it crashes the Spyder Kernel too!

I'm very confused, to me it doesn't seem I have done any illegal stuff here, but I would appreciate a lot if someone could explain me how should I patch this issue?

I managed to build the code above following the recommendations from this other question, but I never expected ending up with a weird problem like this one in the end...

Answer 1

You need to take care of a couple of things here:

• You need to remove Default from the profile PATH. So effectively your line of code will be:

  opt.add_argument("--user-data-dir=r'C:\Users\ResetStoreX\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data') #PATH profile
  

You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussions in:

• How to use Chrome Profile in Selenium Webdriver Python 3
• selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: crashed with ChromeDriver and Selenium in Python
• Selenium: Point towards default Chrome session

• You need to pass the absolute path of the ChromeDriver within Service() as follows:

  s = Service('C:\path\to\chromedriver.exe')