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I start to learn selenium today. I install chrome driver and firefox driver accoding to version. I try with both chrome and firefox but browsers closes immediately. I also add drivers to PATH. I also try using direct path of driver
Chrome Version: 109.0.5414.120
Selenium Version: 4.8
Python Version: 3.8
Conda Version: 23.1.0
Code:
import selenium
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
service = Service(r"C:\Users\Sarper\Drivers\chromedriver.exe")
print(selenium.__version__) # Verison 4.8
chrome_browser = webdriver.Chrome(service=service)
chrome_browser.get("https://www.google.com")

Seems like it closes, because your code is done running.
You might try:
import selenium
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
service = Service(r"C:\Users\Sarper\Drivers\chromedriver.exe")
print(selenium.__version__) # Verison 4.8
chrome_browser = webdriver.Chrome(service=service)
chrome_browser.get("https://www.google.com")
input("Press ENTER to exit\n")

Service need to get the path to the chromedriver.exe as following:
service = Service('C:\webdrivers\chromedriver.exe')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service)
C:\webdrivers\chromedriver.exe here is the actual path to chromedriver.exe on my computer
To keep the browser open set options with detach = true, as wollowing:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
options = Options()
options.add_experimental_option("detach", True)
options.add_argument("start-maximized")
service = Service('C:\webdrivers\chromedriver.exe')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options, service=service)

from selenium import webdriver
# Selenium Version
print(webdriver.__version__)
# Instantiating the Chrome driver
chrome_browser = webdriver.Chrome()
# Opening the browser to Google website
chrome_browser.get("https://www.google.com")

Chrome browser automatically closing just after 1 sec,, what would be the reason

from selenium import webdriver
driver= webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:\Drivers\chromedriver_win32\chromedriver.exe")
driver.get("https://opensource-demo.orangehrmlive.com")
just opens the chrome and closes automatically after 1 sec
what is the reason? is this any error with code?

Try using the detach option when initializing the chromedriver. Also, executable_path is deprecated now. Service should be used instead, as following:
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_experimental_option("detach", True)
webdriver_service = Service('C:\Drivers\chromedriver_win32\chromedriver.exe')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options, service=webdriver_service)

Google chrome closes automatically after executing Python selenium code despite using the option class to keep it open

I have checked online and it was mentioned that Selenium closes the browser after running unless you use the option module or the driver.quit() or driver.close() functions but I used the option as shown in the code below but Chrome still closes after 2-3 seconds.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_experimental_option("detach", True)
chrome_driver_path = r"C:\Development\chromedriver.exe"
serv = Service(chrome_driver_path)
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=serv, options=chrome_options)
driver.get("https://www.google.com")

Is there a way to hide the browser while running selenium in Python?

I am working on a project with selenium to scrape the data, but I don't want the browser to open and pop up. I just wanted to hide the browser and also not to display it in the taskbar also...
Some also suggested to use phantomJS but I didn't get them. What to do now ...

If you're using Chrome you can just set the headless argument like so:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
driver_exe = 'chromedriver'
options = Options()
options.add_argument("--headless")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(driver_exe, options=options)

For chrome you could pass in the --headless parameter.
Alternatively you could let selenium work on a virtual display like this:
from selenium import webdriver
from xvfbwrapper import Xvfb
display = Xvfb()
display.start()
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('http://www.stackoverflow.com')
print(driver.title)
driver.quit()
display.stop()
The latter has worked for me quite well.

To hide the browser while executing tests using Selenium's python you can use the minimize_window() method which eventually minimizes/pushes the Chrome Browsing Context effectively to the background using the following solution:
from selenium import webdriver
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("--start-maximized")
options.add_experimental_option("excludeSwitches", ["enable-automation"])
options.add_experimental_option('useAutomationExtension', False)
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options, executable_path=r'C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\chromedriver.exe')
driver.get('https://www.google.co.in')
driver.minimize_window()
Alternative
As an alternative you can use the headless attribute to configure ChromeDriver to initiate google-chrome browser in Headless mode using Selenium and you can find a couple of relevant discussions in:
How to configure ChromeDriver to initiate Chrome browser in Headless mode through Selenium?

If you're using Firefox, try this:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options
driver_exe = 'path/to/firefoxdriver'
options = Options()
options.add_argument("--headless")
driver = webdriver.Firefox(driver_exe, options=options)
similar to what #Meshi answered in case of Chrome

if you want to hide chrome or selenium driver there is a library pyautogui
import pyautogui
window = [ x for x in pyautogui.getAllWindows()]
by this, you are getting all window title
now you need to find your window
for i in window:
if 'Google Chrome' in i.title:
i.hide()
or you can play with your driver title also

How to bypass the message-"your connection is not private" on non-secure page using Selenium?

I'm trying to interact with the page "Your connection is not private".
The solution of using options.add_argument('--ignore-certificate-errors') is not helpful for two reasons:
I'm using an already open window.
Even if I was using a "selenium opened window" the script runs non stop, and the issue I'm trying to solve is when my browser disconnects from a splunk dashboard and I want it to automatically connect again(and it pops the private connection window).
How do I click on "Advanced" and then click on "Proceed to splunk_server (unsafe)?

For chrome:
from selenium import webdriver
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--ignore-ssl-errors=yes')
options.add_argument('--ignore-certificate-errors')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
If not work then this:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver import DesiredCapabilities
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--allow-insecure-localhost') # differ on driver version. can ignore.
caps = options.to_capabilities()
caps["acceptInsecureCerts"] = True
driver = webdriver.Chrome(desired_capabilities=caps)
For firefox:
from selenium import webdriver
profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
profile.accept_untrusted_certs = True
driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=profile)
driver.get('https://cacert.org/')
driver.close()
If not work then this:
capabilities = webdriver.DesiredCapabilities().FIREFOX
capabilities['acceptSslCerts'] = True
driver = webdriver.Firefox(capabilities=capabilities)
driver.get('https://cacert.org/')
driver.close()
Above all worked for me!

This is how i handle this problem:
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.CapabilityType;
ChromeOptions capability = new ChromeOptions();
capability.setCapability(CapabilityType.ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS, true);
capability.setCapability(CapabilityType.ACCEPT_INSECURE_CERTS,true);
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(capability);

This chrome option is the silver bullet for me:
chromeOptions.addArguments("--allow-running-insecure-content");
If you need more, Open chrome & paste this URL:
chrome://flags/
One will find all the options and their impact on the chrome.

Either of below 2 solutions worked for me using Python Chrome Selenium Webdriver:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver import DesiredCapabilities
capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.CHROME.copy()
capabilities["acceptInsecureCerts"] = True
driver = webdriver.Chrome(desired_capabilities=capabilities)
And accepted solution:
from selenium import webdriver
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--ignore-ssl-errors=yes')
options.add_argument('--ignore-certificate-errors')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)