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I can't open a website using selenium with chrome profile

okay so here is my code:
import schedule
import time
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("--user-data-dir=C:/Users/soham/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data")
options.add_argument('--profile-directory=Profile 2')
driver = webdriver.Chrome( executable_path="C:\Program Files (x86)\chromedriver.exe", options=options)
driver.get("google.com")
it gives this error:
C:\Users\soham\PycharmProjects\pythonProject\venv\Scripts\python.exe C:/Users/soham/PycharmProjects/pythonProject/main.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\soham\PycharmProjects\pythonProject\main.py", line 12, in <module>
driver = webdriver.Chrome( executable_path="C:\Program Files (x86)\chromedriver.exe", options=options)
File "C:\Users\soham\PycharmProjects\pythonProject\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py", line 76, in __init__
RemoteWebDriver.__init__(
File "C:\Users\soham\PycharmProjects\pythonProject\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 157, in __init__
self.start_session(capabilities, browser_profile)
File "C:\Users\soham\PycharmProjects\pythonProject\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 252, in start_session
response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters)
File "C:\Users\soham\PycharmProjects\pythonProject\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 321, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File "C:\Users\soham\PycharmProjects\pythonProject\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.InvalidArgumentException: Message: invalid argument: user data directory is already in use, please specify a unique value for --user-data-dir argument, or don't use --user-data-dir
okay so sorry if you're reading this cause i'm only writing this part cause it was saying its most code and told me to write something soo yeah....HELP.

Whenever I try to run Chrome using selenium using Python I get this error. has anyone experienced this before?

Code:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path = r"C:\Users\Dell\Desktop\chromedriver.exe")
driver.get("http:/https://stackoverflow.com/")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Dell\Desktop\Intro.py", line 3, in
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path = r"C:\Users\Dell\Desktop\chromedriver.exe")
File "C:\Users\Dell\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py", line 76, in init
RemoteWebDriver.init(
File "C:\Users\Dell\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 157, in init
self.start_session(capabilities, browser_profile)
File "C:\Users\Dell\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 252, in start_session
response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters)
File "C:\Users\Dell\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 321, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File "C:\Users\Dell\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: failed to write prefs file

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Here is my version of the working code.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:\Windows\chromedriver.exe")
driver.get("https://stackoverflow.com/")
Try adding chromedriver to C:\Windows.
Check both chrome and chromedriver having the same version.

Error on Connect Selenium Driver to an Existing Chrome Browser Instance [duplicate]

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How can I reconnect to the browser opened by webdriver with selenium?
(4 answers)
Closed 2 years ago.
I was following this tutorial (link below), but an error is happening that I don't know how I can solve it.
https://medium.com/#harith.sankalpa/connect-selenium-driver-to-an-existing-chrome-browser-instance-41435b67affd
I am trying to use the browser that is open to perform a search, because it is already logged into the account that I need.
I'm using chrome --remote-debugging-port=1024 to open chrome, after I execute this code below.
I found some solutions, but none solved my problem, either because the solution was in Java and I didn't understand or I didn't know how to rewrite in python.
Code:
from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options as ChromeOptions
from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities
if __name__ == '__main__':
options = ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('start-maximized')
options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
options.add_argument('--remote-debugging-port=1024')
options.add_argument('--disable-setuid-sandbox')
options.add_experimental_option("debuggerAddress", "localhost:1024")
options.binary_location = "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe"
d = DesiredCapabilities.CHROME
d["loggingPrefs"] = {"browser": "ALL"}
driver = webdriver.Chrome(
executable_path=ChromeDriverManager().install(),
options=options,
desired_capabilities=d
)
driver.get("https://google.com.br")
Error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/danit/Desktop/project/main.py", line 22, in <module>
desired_capabilities=d
File "C:\Users\danit\Desktop\project\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py", line 81, in __init__
desired_capabilities=desired_capabilities)
File "C:\Users\danit\Desktop\project\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 157, in __init__
self.start_session(capabilities, browser_profile)
File "C:\Users\danit\Desktop\project\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 252, in start_session
response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters)
File "C:\Users\danit\Desktop\project\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 321, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File "C:\Users\danit\Desktop\project\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: cannot connect to chrome at localhost:1024
from chrome not reachable
Thanks a lot.

The error says chrome is not reachable. Most probably that instance has been deleted
I am showing a simple method to save session data( all cookies will be saved ) and then load selenium to load from that instance.
Look at the following example
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium import webdriver
session = "mySession"
chrome_driver_path = '/home/aahnik/Downloads/apps/chromedriver'
whatsapp_web_url = "https://web.whatsapp.com/"
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument(f'--user-data-dir={session}')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(
options=chrome_options, executable_path=chrome_driver_path)
driver.get(whatsapp_web_url)
Now execute this code. WhatsApp web will open. Login by scanning the QR Code.
Now close the window, and then terminate the program.
Now will see a folder named mySession in your current user directory.
Execute this code again.
This time you will find that you are already logged into WhatsApp.
Hope this helped.

Selenium Error: Unable to find a matching set of capabilities [duplicate]

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Selenium “Unable to find a matching set of capabilities” despite driver being in /usr/local/bin
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Closed 2 years ago.
This is the code I am using
from selenium import webdriver
url = "https://www.reddit.com/r/memes"
browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get(url)
This is the error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 4, in <module>
browser = webdriver.Firefox()
File "/home/jiahong/python/scrapping/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 170, in __init__
RemoteWebDriver.__init__(
File "/home/jiahong/python/scrapping/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 157, in __init__
self.start_session(capabilities, browser_profile)
File "/home/jiahong/python/scrapping/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 252, in start_session
response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters)
File "/home/jiahong/python/scrapping/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 321, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File "/home/jiahong/python/scrapping/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.SessionNotCreatedException: Message: Unable to find a matching set of capabilities
I am using WSL with Ubuntu and I am using Vim. I do not get this error however if I am outside of WSL and use VSC instead. But I want to code in Vim.

In the code, you haven't mentioned the path to the geckodriver executable. Your code should look something like this:
from selenium import webdriver
url = "https://www.reddit.com/r/memes"
browser = webdriver.Firefox(f'/home/user/Downloads/geckodriver')
# Or in Windows the path would be 'C:\\Users\\username\\Downloads\\geckodriver.exe'
browser.get(url)
If you don't already have the driver, get it from here.

Python3 Selenium Webdriver times out during initialization

The following script(s):
from selenium import webdriver
wd = webdriver.Firefox()
or
from selenium import webdriver
wd = webdriver.Chrome()
will very nearly always fail on my Windows 7 machine, producing the following stack trace(s):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\webdriver.py", line 152, in __init__
keep_alive=True)
File "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 98, in __init__
self.start_session(desired_capabilities, browser_profile)
File "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 188, in start_session
response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters)
File "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 254, in execute
response = self.command_executor.execute(driver_command, params)
File "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\remote_connection.py", line 464, in execute
return self._request(command_info[0], url, body=data)
File "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\remote_connection.py", line 488, in _request
resp = self._conn.getresponse()
File "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\http\client.py", line 1334, in getresponse
response.begin()
File "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\http\client.py", line 300, in begin
version, status, reason = self._read_status()
File "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\http\client.py", line 260, in _read_status
line_tmp = self.fp.readline(_MAXLINE + 1)
File "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\socket.py", line 586, in readinto
return self._sock.recv_into(b)
socket.timeout: timed out
And the same for Chrome (except ...\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py, obviously). This behavior is very consistent, although on rare occasions reattempting to open a webdriver within the same Python session will allow Selenium to successfully open the browser, and (so far as I've been able to tell) operate correctly from there on out.
This behavior is not observed on my Linux machine, which is on the same network; any attempt to open a webdriver works correctly.
I'm stumped, all socket timeout issues I've found through Google have been related to attempting to access a webpage, not just creating a new webdriver object. I can provide any additional information required to solve this.

Here is the Answer to your Question -
While you work with Selenium 3.4.3, chromedriver v2.30, geckodriver v0.17.0, Google Chrome 59.0 and Mozilla Firefox 53.0 through Python 3.6.1 you can consider the following options:
Chrome :
To initialize chromedriver you can consider mentioning the absolute path of the chromedriver through executable_path argument and additionally specify/use the chrome_options argument to configure the required browser properties as follows:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
options = Options()
options.add_argument("start-maximized")
options.add_argument("disable-infobars")
options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options, executable_path="C:\\Utility\\BrowserDrivers\\chromedriver.exe")
driver.get("https://www.google.co.in")
Firefox :
To initialize geckodriver you can consider mentioning the absolute path of the geckodriver through executable_path argument and additionally specify/use the firefox_binary argument to configure the required browser as follows:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.firefox_binary import FirefoxBinary
from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities
binary = FirefoxBinary('C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe')
caps = DesiredCapabilities().FIREFOX
driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_binary=binary, executable_path="C:\\Utility\\BrowserDrivers\\geckodriver.exe")
driver.get('https://stackoverflow.com')
Let me know if this Answers your Question.