How to open a single chrome profile directly with seleniumbase?

[pd2871]

Hi @mdmintz
I am trying to open a Chrome profile using seleniumbase but am not able to find any docs related to it. Please help me on it.

Currently, I have tried the below method but it shows the list of profiles instead of opening a single chrome profile.

with SB(uc=True, user_data_dir=r'C:\Users\Acer\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data') as sb: 
    sb.driver.get('https://google.com')

[mdmintz]

If using the user_data_dir option together with uc mode, the user_data_dir MUST be one that was created via tests running in uc mode. This means that you cannot use one that comes from your default Chrome browser. A regular Chrome browser would reconfigure the user_data_dir in a way such that uc mode would no longer be compatible with it.

Also, if using Windows, make sure that the path to your user_data_dir (and the user_data_dir itself) does not contain any spaces. There appears to be an external issue on Windows (I've heard) with selenium, undetected-chromedriver, and pyinstaller (outside the scope of SeleniumBase) which may cause problems if that path has spaces in it.

[caffenie]

how can the browser profile created during uc mode be stored?

[mdmintz]

Unless manually deleted, any custom user_data_dir created will still be there after the UC Mode test completes. Then be sure to specify the same user_data_dir again.

(Note that you can configure the user_data_dir, but not the Profile directory inside that, which is separate. Only the Default profile is used, and that is automatically selected when specifying the user_data_dir.)

[caffenie]

where can I find the custom user_data_dir created in UC mode? I cannot find any functions for it, and specfiying the user_data_dir param to an empty folder makes selenium unable to launch.

Also, thank you for all your hard work

[mdmintz]

Don't specify an empty folder when setting the user_data_dir. Either use a folder that doesn't exist, or an existing folder that was created previously when you set a user_data_dir to use.