Selenium: get() not working with custom google profile

Question

All what im trying to do is pretty much access whatsapp web where I have my whatsapp already linked, However when I use a custom profile the profile does open, however browser.get("https://web.whatsapp.com) doesn't seem to open. or any browser.get(). What could be the issue?

from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException, TimeoutException, WebDriverException

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--user-data-dir=/Users/omarassouma/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/')
options.add_experimental_option("deatch", True)

browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome",chrome_options=options)
browser.get("https://web.whatsapp.com/")

this is the updated version, it now opens whatsapp web however not in a custom profile, moreover I cant really use webdriver.options(), is there anything extra I have to import?.

from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager


options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("user-data-dir=/Users/omarassouma/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/User Data/Default")
browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="/Users/omarassouma/Downloads/chromedriver",options=options)
browser.get("https://web.whatsapp.com/")

Answer 1

You need to take care of a couple of things as follows:

• To use a Custome Chrome Profile you have to pass the absolute path as follows:

  options.add_argument("user-data-dir=/Users/omarassouma/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/User Data/Default")
  

You can find a detailed discussion in How to use Chrome Profile in Selenium Webdriver Python 3

• Instead of passing the absolute path of the google-chrome binary, you need to pass the absolute path of the ChromeDriver through the key executable_path.

• Additionally, instead of chrome_options you need to use options as chrome_options is deprecated now.

You can find a detailed discussion in DeprecationWarning: use options instead of chrome_options error using Brave Browser With Python Selenium and Chromedriver on Windows

So effectively the line of code will be:

browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="/path/to/chromedriver", options=options)

Answer 2

At 05.11.2022 I found the only way to pass through authorization for myself is using cookie - https://stackoverflow.com/a/15058521 Runing selenium driver with google account isn't working