I was trying to control an already open instance of Chrome, but when that didn't work, I started to try to make a new instance of Chrome on my profile. I found two stackoverflow posts detailing the problem (How to use Chrome Profile in Selenium Webdriver Python 3 and Selenium: get() not working with custom google profile) but neither solution worked. I have two code blocks, both of which has its own problem.
The first thing I tried was this:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument(r"--user-data-dir=C:\\Users\\EliBa\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data")
options.add_argument(r'--profile-directory=Default')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\\Selenium Drivers\\chromedriver.exe', chrome_options=options)
driver.get("https://google.com")
While this opened my profile, it did not open google like I asked it to. The second thing I tried was this:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
options = Options()
options.add_argument("user-data-dir=C:\\Users\\EliBa\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data\\Default")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='C:\\Selenium Drivers\\chromedriver.exe', options=options)
driver.get("https://www.google.com")
While this opened Google, it did not open my custom profile. Does anyone know what I should be putting so that the custom profile opens AND it loads the site I ask it to?
