I would like to use an existing installation of chrome (or firefox or brave browser) with selenium. Like that I could set prespecified settings / extensions (e.g. start nord-vpn when opening a new instance) that are active when the browser is opened with selenium.
I know there is selenium.webdriver.service with the "executeable-path" option, but it doesn't seem to work when you specify a specific chrome.exe, the usage seems to be for the chrome-driver only and then it still opens a "fresh" installation of chrome.
Starting selenium with extension-file I think is also not an option to use with the nord-vpn extension, as I have two-factor authentication active and login every single time would take too much time and effort, if possible at all.
Firefox profile
To use the existing installation of firefox you have to pass the profile path through set_preference() method using an instance of Option from selenium.webdriver.common.options as follows:
from selenium.webdriver import Firefox
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options
profile_path = r'C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\s8543x41.default-release'
options=Options()
options.set_preference('profile', profile_path)
service = Service('C:\\BrowserDrivers\\geckodriver.exe')
driver = Firefox(service=service, options=options)
driver.get("https://www.google.com")
You can find a relevant detailed discussion in Error update preferences in Firefox profile: 'Options' object has no attribute 'update_preferences'
Chrome profile
Where as to use an existing installation of google-chrome you have to pass the user profile path through add_argument() using the user-data-dir key through an instance of Option from selenium.webdriver.common.options as follows:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
options = Options()
options.add_argument("user-data-dir=C:\\Users\\username\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data\\Default")
s = Service('C:\\BrowserDrivers\\chromedriver.exe')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=s, options=options)
driver.get("https://www.google.com/")
You can find a relevant detailed discussion in How to open a Chrome Profile through Python
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)
I'm developing a scraping script to collect some data which is behind an authwall, I've got a custom filter in ublock which gets me past the authwall however when i load chromium with ublock using Selenium it doesn't have the filters. I'm using Linux if that helps.
I've tried getting it to pause before getting the information to allow me to check the filters in place and it is blank.
Here is a portion of the code
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
chrome_option_settings = Options()
chrome_option_settings.add_argument('--window-size=1920x1080')
extension_path = r'/home/user/.config/chromium/Default/Extensions/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm/1.20.0_0'
chrome_option_settings.add_argument('load-extension='+extension_path)
chrome_driver = "/usr/bin/chromedriver"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_option_settings, executable_path=chrome_driver)
driver.get(url)
I've also tried to load the Chrome profile using either however neither help.
chrome_options.add_argument("user-data-dir=/home/user/.config/chromium/Default")
or
chrome_options.add_argument("--profile-directory=/home/user/.config/chromium/Default")
Any help would be greatly appreciated
You could try using Options() and invoking add_extension with the path to ublock, hope this helps
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
chrome_options = Options()
executable_path = "path_to_webdriver"
extension_path = r'/home/user/.config/chromium/Default/Extensions/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm/1.20.0_0'
chrome_options.add_extension(extension_path)
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=executable_path, chrome_options=chrome_options)
I'm trying running code (in Python) that can identify suspected phishing sites. I'm using Selenium's chromedriver. This is my code:
import os, os.path, sys
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_experimental_option( "prefs", {'safebrowsing.enabled':1})
chromedriver = "my chromedriver path"
os.environ["webdriver.chrome.driver"] = chromedriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chromedriver, chrome_options=chrome_options)
driver.get('site url I want to check')
My code checks 'V' on "enable phishing and malware protection" in the privacy settings, but for some reason while using Chrome (not the window one opened by Python) the site I check is suspected as phishing and the Chrome window opened by my Python code is not showing anything related to phishing.
Any ideas?
Instead of using selenium, use Google Safe Browsing API directly (python wrapper):
>>> key = 'your own key'
>>> from safebrowsinglookup import SafebrowsinglookupClient
>>> client = SafebrowsinglookupClient(key)
>>> client.lookup('http://addonrock.ru/Debugger.js')
{'http://addonrock.ru/Debugger.js': 'malware'}
>>> client.lookup('http://google.com')
{'http://google.com': 'ok'}
I am using Selenium to launch a browser. How can I deal with the webpages (URLs) that will ask the browser to accept a certificate or not?
In Firefox, I may have a website like that asks me to accept its certificate like this:
On the Internet Explorer browser, I may get something like this:
On Google Chrome:
I repeat my question: How can I automate the acceptance of a website's certificate when I launch a browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google Chrome) with Selenium (Python programming language)?
For the Firefox, you need to set accept_untrusted_certs FirefoxProfile() option to True:
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()
For Chrome, you need to add --ignore-certificate-errors ChromeOptions() argument:
from selenium import webdriver
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('ignore-certificate-errors')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)
driver.get('https://cacert.org/')
driver.close()
For the Internet Explorer, you need to set acceptSslCerts desired capability:
from selenium import webdriver
capabilities = webdriver.DesiredCapabilities().INTERNETEXPLORER
capabilities['acceptSslCerts'] = True
driver = webdriver.Ie(capabilities=capabilities)
driver.get('https://cacert.org/')
driver.close()
Actually, according to the Desired Capabilities documentation, setting acceptSslCerts capability to True should work for all browsers since it is a generic read/write capability:
acceptSslCerts
boolean
Whether the session should accept all SSL certs
by default.
Working demo for Firefox:
>>> from selenium import webdriver
Setting acceptSslCerts to False:
>>> capabilities = webdriver.DesiredCapabilities().FIREFOX
>>> capabilities['acceptSslCerts'] = False
>>> driver = webdriver.Firefox(capabilities=capabilities)
>>> driver.get('https://cacert.org/')
>>> print(driver.title)
Untrusted Connection
>>> driver.close()
Setting acceptSslCerts to True:
>>> capabilities = webdriver.DesiredCapabilities().FIREFOX
>>> capabilities['acceptSslCerts'] = True
>>> driver = webdriver.Firefox(capabilities=capabilities)
>>> driver.get('https://cacert.org/')
>>> print(driver.title)
Welcome to CAcert.org
>>> driver.close()
For Firefox:
ProfilesIni profile = new ProfilesIni();
FirefoxProfile myprofile = profile.getProfile("default");
myprofile.setAcceptUntrustedCertificates(true);
myprofile.setAssumeUntrustedCertificateIssuer(true);
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(myprofile);
For Chrome we can use:
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
capabilities.setCapability("chrome.switches", Arrays.asList("--ignore-certificate-errors"));
driver = new ChromeDriver(capabilities);
For Internet Explorer we can use:
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS, true);
Webdriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(capabilities);
For Firefox Python:
The Firefox Self-signed certificate bug has now been fixed:
accept ssl cert with marionette firefox webdrive python splinter
"acceptSslCerts" should be replaced by "acceptInsecureCerts"
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.firefox_binary import FirefoxBinary
caps = DesiredCapabilities.FIREFOX.copy()
caps['acceptInsecureCerts'] = True
ff_binary = FirefoxBinary("path to the Nightly binary")
driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_binary=ff_binary, capabilities=caps)
driver.get("https://expired.badssl.com")
For people coming to this question related to headless chrome via python selenium, you may find https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=721739#c102 to be useful.
It looks like you can either do
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument('--allow-insecure-localhost')
or something along the lines of the following (may need to adapt for python):
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions()
DesiredCapabilities caps = DesiredCapabilities.chrome()
caps.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options)
caps.setCapability("acceptInsecureCerts", true)
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(caps)
And in C# (.net core) using Selenium.Webdriver and Selenium.Chrome.Webdriver like this:
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.AddArgument("--ignore-certificate-errors");
using (var driver = new ChromeDriver(Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location),options))
{
...
}
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions().addArguments("--proxy-server=http://" + proxy);
options.setAcceptInsecureCerts(true);
Javascript:
const capabilities = webdriver.Capabilities.phantomjs();
capabilities.set(webdriver.Capability.ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS, true);
capabilities.set(webdriver.Capability.SECURE_SSL, false);
capabilities.set('phantomjs.cli.args', ['--web-security=no', '--ssl-protocol=any', '--ignore-ssl-errors=yes']);
const driver = new webdriver.Builder().withCapabilities(webdriver.Capabilities.chrome(), capabilities).build();
In selenium python, you need to set desired_capabilities as:
desired_capabilities = {
"acceptInsecureCerts": True
}
I ran into the same issue with Selenium and Behat. If you want to pass the parameters via behat.yml, here is what it needs to look like:
default:
extensions:
Behat\MinkExtension:
base_url: https://my-app.com
default_session: selenium2
selenium2:
browser: firefox
capabilities:
extra_capabilities:
acceptInsecureCerts: true
Creating a profile and then a driver helps us get around the certificate issue in Firefox:
var profile = new FirefoxProfile();
profile.SetPreference("network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris","DESIREDURL");
driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);
For those who come to this issue using Firefox and the above solutions don't work, you may try the code below (my original answer is here).
from selenium import webdriver
profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
profile.DEFAULT_PREFERENCES['frozen']['marionette.contentListener'] = True
profile.DEFAULT_PREFERENCES['frozen']['network.stricttransportsecurity.preloadlist'] = False
profile.DEFAULT_PREFERENCES['frozen']['security.cert_pinning.enforcement_level'] = 0
profile.set_preference('webdriver_assume_untrusted_issuer', False)
profile.set_preference("browser.download.folderList", 2)
profile.set_preference("browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting", False)
profile.set_preference("browser.download.dir", temp_folder)
profile.set_preference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk",
"text/plain, image/png")
driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=profile)
WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup();
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("--ignore-certificate-errors");
driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
I have used it for Java with Chrome browser it is working nice
Delete all but the necessary certificate from your browser's certificate store and then configure the browser to automatically select the certificate when only one certificate is present.
Just an update regarding this issue.
Require Drivers:
Linux: Centos 7 64bit, Window 7 64bit
Firefox: 52.0.3
Selenium Webdriver: 3.4.0 (Windows), 3.8.1 (Linux Centos)
GeckoDriver: v0.16.0 (Windows), v0.17.0 (Linux Centos)
Code
System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "/home/seleniumproject/geckodrivers/linux/v0.17/geckodriver");
ProfilesIni ini = new ProfilesIni();
// Change the profile name to your own. The profile name can
// be found under .mozilla folder ~/.mozilla/firefox/profile.
// See you profile.ini for the default profile name
FirefoxProfile profile = ini.getProfile("default");
DesiredCapabilities cap = new DesiredCapabilities();
cap.setAcceptInsecureCerts(true);
FirefoxBinary firefoxBinary = new FirefoxBinary();
GeckoDriverService service =new GeckoDriverService.Builder(firefoxBinary)
.usingDriverExecutable(new
File("/home/seleniumproject/geckodrivers/linux/v0.17/geckodriver"))
.usingAnyFreePort()
.usingAnyFreePort()
.build();
try {
service.start();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
FirefoxOptions options = new FirefoxOptions().setBinary(firefoxBinary).setProfile(profile).addCapabilities(cap);
driver = new FirefoxDriver(options);
driver.get("https://www.google.com");
System.out.println("Life Title -> " + driver.getTitle());
driver.close();
I was able to do this on .net c# with PhantomJSDriver with selenium web driver 3.1
[TestMethod]
public void headless()
{
var driverService = PhantomJSDriverService.CreateDefaultService(#"C:\Driver\phantomjs\");
driverService.SuppressInitialDiagnosticInformation = true;
driverService.AddArgument("--web-security=no");
driverService.AddArgument("--ignore-ssl-errors=yes");
driver = new PhantomJSDriver(driverService);
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("XXXXXX.aspx");
Thread.Sleep(6000);
}
Whenever I run into this issue with newer browsers, I just use AppRobotic Personal edition to click specific screen coordinates, or tab through the buttons and click.
Basically it's just using its macro functionality, but won't work on headless setups though.
I had the exact same issue. However when I tried opening the website manually in the browser the certificate was correct, but in the details the name was "DONOTTRUST".
The difference of certificate was caused by Fiddler that was running in background and decrypting all HTTPS content before reencrypting it.
To fix my problem, just close Fiddler on machine. If you need to keep Fiddler opened, then you can uncheck Decrypt SSL in Fiddler Settings.
For .NET, what worked for me was the following...
var chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions { AcceptInsecureCertificates = true };
Pretty much, it tells the ChromeDriver options not to halt browser execution when an insecure certificate is detected, and to proceed as normal.
It looks like it still doesn't have a standard decision of this problem. In other words - you still can't say "Okay, do a certification, whatever if you are Internet Explorer, Mozilla or Google Chrome". But I found one post that shows how to work around the problem in Mozilla Firefox. If you are interested in it, you can check it here.