Selenium - Mode Headless doesn't work with user-data-dir

Question

I use Selenium WebDriver in a WhatsApp Automation and I try to use headless mode with session saved in Chrome, but it doesn't work.

The DriverFactory:

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Users\\4P\\Documents\\DRIVER SELENIUM\\chromedriver.exe");
        ChromeOptions chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();
        chromeOptions.addArguments("--no-sandbox");
        chromeOptions.addArguments("--headless");     
        chromeOptions.addArguments("--disable-gpu");
        chromeOptions.addArguments("--window-size=1920,1080");
        chromeOptions.addArguments("--user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/90.0.4430.72 Safari/537.36 OPR/60.0.3255.170");
        chromeOptions.addArguments("--user-data-dir=C:\\Users\\4P\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data");
        chromeOptions.addArguments("--remote-debugging-port=9222");
        chromeOptions.addArguments("--profile-directory=Profile 1");
        chromeOptions.setBinary("C:\\Users\\4P\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe");
        this.driver = new _ChromeDriver(chromeOptions);
        this.driver.manage().window();
        this.js = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;

My chrome version is 94.0.4606.61.

With I remove the headless mode, I can get the session with no problem.

In another PC, I had success with another configuration, but I don't have access anymore to it.

Can anyone help me?

Is there a reason to use such old chrome version? Could you update webdriver (and Chrome browser on your PC)? Latest versions currently are 102,103 ([check this link](https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads)) — Andrey Kotov, Jun 30 '22 at 15:56
is not a error, sorry. Chrome dont get the session saved in user-data, but without headless, it worth — Daniel Moreira, Jun 30 '22 at 17:14
Sounds like you're doing everything right. Can't say what is the exact issue.. definitely something related to `headless` mode. — Andrey Kotov, Jun 30 '22 at 17:20
Try https://playwright.dev/python/ it has 3 browsers with headless mode: Chromium, Firefox y webkit. — MeT, Jun 30 '22 at 18:58
Not question related, but can you explain me how you're saving the chrome session and how you are accessing to it when the code gets executed again? I've been looking for that for a while now. — SaC-SeBaS, Jul 01 '22 at 14:18
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50635087/how-to-open-a-chrome-profile-through-user-data-dir-argument-of-selenium use it — Daniel Moreira, Jul 05 '22 at 16:45

Selenium - Mode Headless doesn't work with user-data-dir

My chrome version is 94.0.4606.61.

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