I have a problem with Google login. I want to login to my account but Google says that automation drivers are not allowed to log in.
I am looking for a solution. Is it possible to get a cookie of normal Firefox/Chrome and load it into the ChromeDriver/GeckoDriver? I thought that this can be a solution. But I am not sure is it possible or not..
Looking for solutions...
Also, I want to add a quick solution. I solved this issue by
using one of my old verified account. That can be a quick solution for
you.
I had the same problem and found the solution for it. I am using
1) Windows 10 Pro
2) Chrome Version 83.0.4103.97 (Official Build) (64-bit)
3) selenium ChromeDriver 83.0.4103.39
Some simple C# code which open google pages
var options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments(#"user-data-dir=c:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\");
IWebDriver driver = new OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome.ChromeDriver();
driver = new ChromeDriver(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory(), options);
driver.Url = "https://accounts.google.com/";
Console.ReadKey();
The core problem here you cant login when you use selenium driver, but you can use the profile which already logged to the google accounts.
You have to find where your Chrome store profile is and append it with "user-data-dir" option.
PS. Replace {username} with your real account name.
On linux the user profile is in "~/.config/google-chrome".
This error message...
...implies that the WebDriver instance was unable to authenticate the Browsing Context i.e. Browser session.
This browser or app may not be secure
This error can happen due to different factors as follows:
In the article "This browser or app may not be secure" error when trying to sign in with Google on desktop apps #Raphael Schaad mentioned that, if an user can log into the same app just fine with other Google accounts, then the problem must be with the particular account. In majority of the cases the possible reason is, this particular user account is configured with Two Factor Authentification.
In the article Less secure apps & your Google Account it is mentioned that, if an app or site doesn’t meet google-chrome's security standards, Google may block anyone who’s trying to sign in to your account from it. Less secure apps can make it easier for hackers to get in to your account, so blocking sign-ins from these apps helps keep your account safe.
Solution
In these cases the respective solution would be to:
Disable Two Factor Authentification for this Google account and execute your #Test.
Allow less secure apps
You can find a detailed discussion in Unable to sign into google with selenium automation because of "This browser or app may not be secure."
Deep Dive
However, to help protect your account, Web Browsers may not let you sign in from some browsers. Google might stop sign-ins from browsers that:
Doesn't support JavaScript or have Javascript turned off.
Have AutomationExtension or unsecure or unsupported extensions added.
Use automation testing frameworks.
Are embedded in a different application.
Solution
In these cases there are diverse solutions:
Use a browser that supports JavaScript:
Chrome
Safari
Firefox
Opera
Internet Explorer
Edge
Turn on JavaScript in Web Browsers: If you’re using a supported browser and still can’t sign in, you might need to turn on JavaScript.
If you still can’t sign in, it might be because you have AutomationExtension / unsecure / unsupported extensions turned on and you may need to turn off as follows:
public class browserAppDemo
{
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
{
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Utility\\BrowserDrivers\\chromedriver.exe");
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("start-maximized");
options.setExperimentalOption("useAutomationExtension", false);
options.setExperimentalOption("excludeSwitches", Collections.singletonList("enable-automation"));
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
driver.get("https://accounts.google.com/signin")
new WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//input[#id='identifierId']"))).sendKeys("gashu");
driver.findElement(By.id("identifierNext")).click();
new WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//input[#name='password']"))).sendKeys("gashu");
driver.findElement(By.id("passwordNext")).click();
System.out.println(driver.getTitle());
}
}
You can find a couple of relevant discussions in:
Gmail login using selenium webdriver in java
Selenium test scripts to login into google account through new ajax login form
Additional Considerations
Finally, some old browser versions might not be supported, so ensure that:
JDK is upgraded to current levels JDK 8u241.
Selenium is upgraded to current levels Version 3.141.59.
ChromeDriver is updated to current ChromeDriver v80.0 level.
Chrome is updated to current Chrome Version 80.0 level. (as per ChromeDriver v80.0 release notes)
Solution without redirecting, using firefox driver, or changing any google account settings:
If you have a specific Google account you want to access, create a chrome profile with it and then load the chrome profile when using selenium:
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("--user-data-dir=C:/Users/{userName}/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data/Profile {#}/")
driver = webdriver.Chrome("C:/bin/chromedriver.exe", chrome_options=options)
Windows:
The profile {#} in the file path above will vary so I suggest checking inside of the User Data folder which profile you want to use. For example, if you currently only have 1 chrome account there will be no Profile directory (resorts to "Default" directory) in User Data but if you create a second chrome account there will be a "Profile 1" directory in User Data.
Note that you should create a new google chrome profile to use with selenium because attempting to use a chrome profile that is already in use (opened in another chrome window) will cause an error.
Mac:
This solution may or may not work on mac but to find the chrome account folder/filepath follow the instructions in the comment left by #bfhaha
One Solution that works for me: https://stackoverflow.com/a/60328992/12939291 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkgDRRWrZKg
Short: Stackoverflow Login with Google Account with Redirect
from selenium import webdriver
from time import sleep
class Google:
def __init__(self, username, password):
self.driver = webdriver.Chrome('./chromedriver')
self.driver.get('https://stackoverflow.com/users/signup?ssrc=head&returnurl=%2fusers%2fstory%2fcurrent%27')
sleep(3)
self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="openid-buttons"]/button[1]').click()
self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//input[#type="email"]').send_keys(username)
self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="identifierNext"]').click()
sleep(3)
self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//input[#type="password"]').send_keys(password)
self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="passwordNext"]').click()
sleep(2)
self.driver.get('https://youtube.com')
sleep(5)
username = ''
password = ''
Google(username, password)
I just tried something out that worked for me after several hours of trial and error.
Adding args: ['--disable-web-security', '--user-data-dir', '--allow-running-insecure-content' ] to my config resolved the issue.
I realized later that this was not what helped me out as I tried with a different email and it didn't work. After some observations, I figured something else out and this has been tried and tested.
Using automation:
Go to https://stackoverflow.com/users/login
Select Log in with Google Strategy
Enter Google username and password
Login to Stackoverflow
Go to https://gmail.com (or whatever Google app you want to access)
After doing this consistently for like a whole day (about 24 hours), try automating your login directly to gmail (or whatever Google app you want to access) directly... I've had at least two other people do this with success.
PS - You might want to continue with the stackoverflow login until you at least get a captcha request as we all went through that phase as well.
This might be still open / not answered
Here is an working (28.04.2021) example in this following thread:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/66308429/15784196
Use Firefox as driver. I tested his example and it did work!
#Mike-Fakesome on this https://gist.github.com/ikegami-yukino/51b247080976cb41fe93 thread suggest a solution that works
import undetected_chromedriver.v2 as uc
import random,time,os,sys
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
GMAIL = '<GMAIL_HERE>'
PASSWORD = '<PASSWORD_HERE>'
chrome_options = uc.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-popup-blocking")
chrome_options.add_argument("--profile-directory=Default")
chrome_options.add_argument("--ignore-certificate-errors")
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-plugins-discovery")
chrome_options.add_argument("--incognito")
chrome_options.add_argument("user_agent=DN")
driver = uc.Chrome(options=chrome_options)
driver.delete_all_cookies()
driver.get("https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/v2/auth/oauthchooseaccount?redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.google.com%2Foauthplayground&prompt=consent&response_type=code&client_id=407408718192.apps.googleusercontent.com&scope=email&access_type=offline&flowName=GeneralOAuthFlow")
driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/div/div[2]/div/div[1]/div/form/span/section/div/div/div[1]/div/div[1]/div/div[1]/input").send_keys(GMAIL)
driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/div/div[2]/div/div[1]/div/form/span/section/div/div/div[1]/div/div[1]/div/div[1]/input").send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
time.sleep(10)
also you can use import undetected_chromedriver as uc instead of import undetected_chromedriver.v2 as uc now as well
I solved this issue last week using following steps:
First two steps are out of your project code.
Create a new user directory for Chrome browser.
You can name this folder whatever you like and place it anywhere.
Run Chrome browser in debugger mode using just created directory
cd C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application
chrome.exe --remote-debuggin-port=9222 --user-data-dir="C:\localhost"
You can use any free port but I followed this article:
https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol/
Browser window opens.
Login manually to Google / Facebook / etc using opened window.
Close the browser.
In your project:
Copy chrome-user-directory you just created into 'resources' package.
Set debugging option for Chrome driver.
/**
* This method is added due to Google security policies changed.
* Now it's impossible to login in Google account via Selenium at first time.
* We use a user data directory for Chrome where we previously logged in.
*/
private WebDriver setWebDriver() {
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("--user-data-dir=" + System.getProperty("user.dir") + "/src/main/resources/localhost");
options.addArguments("--remote-debugging-port=9222");
return new ChromeDriver(options);
}
Enjoy.
PS: If you have another solution without copying chrome user-directory into the project, please share it)
I found a solution ,#theycallmepix and #Yinka Albi are correct but because(i think) google blacklisted accounts that did just programatically login the first time and so later they coudn't login normally. So Basically just use different a account and go to to Stackauth or StackoverFlow. Then manually login with Google(first link your account) And then manually login in google.com and then it should work prgramaticaly
P.S. pls comment if this doesn't work
Use the below given snippet method to Login to your Google Account.
Language: Python3
Redirect via: StackAuth (Reason explained at the end)
[Edit: You need to import the required packages. Make sure that the Automation that you do is running in Foreground, I mean, it's not minimised until you login completely. Once if the login is successful, then you can re-direct to the required website that you want.]
def login(username, password): # Logs in the user
driver.get('https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth/identifier?client_id=717762328687-iludtf96g1hinl76e4lc1b9a82g457nn.apps.googleusercontent'
'.com&scope=profile%20email&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fstackauth.com%2Fauth%2Foauth2%2Fgoogle&state=%7B%22sid%22%3A1%2C%22st%22%3A%2'
'259%3A3%3Abbc%2C16%3A561fd7d2e94237c0%2C10%3A1599663155%2C16%3Af18105f2b08c3ae6%2C2f06af367387a967072e3124597eeb4e36c2eff92d3eef697'
'1d95ddb5dea5225%22%2C%22cdl%22%3Anull%2C%22cid%22%3A%22717762328687-iludtf96g1hinl76e4lc1b9a82g457nn.apps.googleusercontent.com%22%'
'2C%22k%22%3A%22Google%22%2C%22ses%22%3A%2226bafb488fcc494f92c896ee923849b6%22%7D&response_type=code&flowName=GeneralOAuthFlow')
driver.find_element_by_name("identifier").send_keys(username)
WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(expected_conditions.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//*[#id='identifierNext']/div/button/div[2]"))).click()
driver.implicitly_wait(4)
try:
driver.find_element_by_name("password").send_keys(password)
WebDriverWait(driver, 2).until(expected_conditions.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, "//*[#id='passwordNext']/div/button/div[2]"))).click()
except TimeoutException:
print('\nUsername/Password seems to be incorrect, please re-check\nand Re-Run the program.')
del username, password
exit()
except NoSuchElementException:
print('\nUsername/Password seems to be incorrect, please re-check\nand Re-Run the program.')
del username, password
exit()
try:
WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(lambda webpage: "https://stackoverflow.com/" in webpage.current_url)
print('\nLogin Successful!\n')
except TimeoutException:
print('\nUsername/Password seems to be incorrect, please re-check\nand Re-Run the program.')
exit()
The above code, takes 2 parameters - gmailID and password. If the password or username is wrong, then you'll notified.
Why stackauth?
-> Stackauth uses OAuth 2.0 authorisation to access Google APIs(here, Google account login needs Google API to work) to securely login a user into his/her Google Account.
Click here to read more about OAuth.
Edit:
I just answered to my own question which I'd posted yesterday thinking that it might help you.
As of now, 2021, it can successfully bypass all the google restrictions that used to occur when logging in.
Feel free to revert back if it doesn't work.
Link to my answer is here
If your Chrome browser was spun up using Chromedriver, then there is detectable evidence that websites can use to determine if you're using Selenium, and then they can block you. However, if the Chrome browser is spun up before Chromedriver connects to it, then you have a browser that no longer looks like an automation-controlled one. Modern web automation libraries such as undetectable-chromedriver are aware of this, and so they make sure Chrome is spun up before connecting chromedriver to it.
The modern framework that I use for these situations is SeleniumBase in undetected chromedriver mode. Here's a script that you can use to get past automation detection on Google: (Run with python after installing seleniumbase with pip install -U seleniumbase)
from seleniumbase import SB
with SB(uc=True) as sb:
sb.open("https://www.google.com/gmail/about/")
sb.click('a[data-action="sign in"]')
sb.type('input[type="email"]', "NAME#gmail.com")
sb.click('button:contains("Next")')
sb.type('input[type="password"]', PASSWORD)
sb.click('button:contains("Next")')
sb.sleep(5)
A slow yet good solution would be delaying every key press. Why? because google uses a kind of captcha where it analyzes your typing speed and more things. So if you wanna type a mail or password like example#example.com, you'd have to do this:
for i in "example#example.com\n": #\n because the submit doesn't work in input fields in google sign in, so \n is equivalent of pressing enter
element.send_keys(i)
time.sleep(0.4) #don't forget to import time or something else with which you could delay your code!
time.sleep(1) #also this sleep because when the button will redirect url, it'd not reload the site and selenium will not wait so one more sleep
PS: if not working, try changing the values of sleep or any other delaying function
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I'm new to Selenieum and still trying to understand how the different pieces work together. I am trying to automate some interaction tasks on an internal website using Python. However, I am trying to use the existing Chrome browser session AFTER I've authenticated with my username and password rather than launching a new browser. I'd like to start where my browser is currently and I'd also like to use a separate profile when launching chrome as to not pollute the default Chrome browser (not sure this is necessary). The driver is currently on a folder on my desktop and I also created a variable ChromeDriver location in my PATH environment variable on my Mac but I am not sure that is really necessary. I also created I've researched several similar post and found the code below on SO, but when I run it still opens a new browser and drops me at the login screen.
from selenium import webdriver
PATH = 'where chrome driver is located'
driver = webdriver.Chrome(PATH)
url = driver.command_executor._url
session_id = driver.session_id
driver = webdriver.Remote(command_executor=url,desired_capabilities={})
driver.close()
driver.session_id = session_id
driver.get("https://whereidliketobeafterlogin")
Based on this post here it looks like your answer may already be available.
I had a similar requirement but it was part of a larger application so i created a quick dialog box using the built in tkinter library to take a username and password so that Selenium could do the log in for me, that way my user data was never stored anywhere.
As far as using a separate profile than whats currently logged in your browser and all, when Selenium web driver starts up a new browser it functions as if it is in the incognito/private version, not retaining any of the login/session info unless specified through parameters.
Lastly, the PATH environment variable isnt entirely necessary, as long as you give filepath to the driver on your desktop when you create your webdriver object you are good.
I am using selenium for a crawling project, but I struggle with a specific webpage (both chrome and firefox).
I found 2 workarounds that work to an extend but I want to know why this issue happens and how to avoid it.
1) Opening chrome manually and then opening selenium with my user profile.
If i manually start chrome and then run:
from selenium import webdriver
options.add_argument(r"user-data-dir=C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
the page loads as intended
2) Passing a variable in the request
by appending /?anything to the url the page loads as intended in selenium
For some reason the webpage has a function in the header despite not loading... I suspect this could be a clue but I do not know enough to determine the cause.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait # available since 2.4.0
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC # available since 2.26.0
browser = webdriver.Chrome('C:/Users/xyz/Downloads/chromedriver.exe')
# Define all variables required
urlErep = browser.get('http://www.erepublik.com')
xPathToSubmitButton = "//*[#id='login_form']/div[1]/p[3]/button"
urlAlerts = 'https://www.erepublik.com/en/main/messages-alerts/1'
one = 1
xPathToAlerts = "//*[#id='deleteAlertsForm']/table/tbody/tr[%d]/td[3]/p" %one
def logintoerep():
email = browser.find_element_by_id("citizen_email")
password = browser.find_element_by_id("citizen_password")
email.send_keys('myemail')
password.send_keys('mypassword')
browser.find_element_by_xpath(xPathToSubmitButton).click()
logintoerep()
The text above is code I wrote using Selenium to login to erepublik.com.
My main goal is to verify some information on eRepublik.com whenever someone fills a Google Form, and then complete an action based on the Google Form data. I'm trying to login to eRepublik using Selenium, and in each attempt to run the script(which I need to run 24/7, so that whenever the form gets a new response the script is ran) it creates a new window, and after 10-20 times I've logged in to the website it asks for captcha which Selenium can't complete. While in my existing browser window, I'm already logged in so I don't have to worry about Captcha and can just run my code.
How can I bypass this problem? Because I need the script to be able to login every time on its own, but captcha won't allow that. The best solution would be to use Selenium on my existing browser windows, but it doesn't allow that.
Is is possible to copy some settings from my normal browser windows to the Selenium-run browser windows so that every time logs in automatically instead?
I'm open to any suggestions as long as they can get me to verify and complete a few minor actions in the website I've linked.
You can attach your Chrome profile to Selenium tests
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("user-data-dir=C:\\Path") #Path to your chrome profile
browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:\\Users\\chromedriver.exe", chrome_options=options)
First off, CAPTCHAs are meant to do exactly that: repel robots/scripts from brute-forcing, or doing repeated actions on certain app features (e.g: login/register flows, send messages, purchase flows, etc.). So you can only go around... never through.
That being said, you can simulate the logged-in state by doing one of the following:
loading the authentication cookies required for the user to be logged in (usually it's only one cookie with a token of some sorts);
loading a custom profile in the browser that already has that user logged in;
use some form of basic auth when navigating to that specific URL (if the web-app has any logic to support this);
Recommended approach: Usually in most companies (at least from my exp), there usually is a specific cookie, or flag that you can set to disable CAPTCHAs for testing purposes. If this is not the case, talk to your PM/DEVs to create such a feature that permits the testing of your web-app.
Don't want to advertise advertise my content, but I think I best tackled this topic HERE. Maybe it can further help.
Hope you solve the problem. Cheers!
I am currently automating a website and have a test which checks the functionality of the Remember Me option.
My test script logs in, entering a valid username and password and checks the Remember Me checkbox before clicking Log In button.
To test this functionality I save the cookies to file using pickle, close the browser and then reopen the browser (loading the cookies file).
def closeWebsite(self, saveCookies=False):
if saveCookies:
pickle.dump(self.driver.get_cookies(), open('cookies.pkl', 'wb'))
self.driver.close()
def openWebsite(self, loadCookies=False):
desired_caps = {}
desired_caps['browserName'] = 'firefox'
profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile(firefoxProfile)
self.driver = webdriver.Firefox(profile)
self.driver.get(appUrl)
if loadCookies:
for cookie in pickle.load(open('cookies.pkl', 'rb')):
self.driver.add_cookie(cookie)
However, when I do this, the new browser is not logged in. I understand that everytime you call the open the browser a new Session is created and this session ID can be obtained using driver.session_id
Is it possible, in the openWebsite method to load a driver and specify the sessionID?
When I test this manually, the Remember Me option works as expected. I'm just having trouble understanding how Selenium handles this case.
For starters you're loading the page before adding the cookies. Although there is the potential for them to arrive before the page needs / queries them, this isn't correct let alone reliable.
Yet, if you try to set the cookies before any page has loaded you will get an error.
The solution seems to be this:
First of all, you need to be on the domain that the cookie will be valid for. If you are trying to preset cookies before you start interacting with
a site and your homepage is large / takes a while to load an
alternative is to find a smaller page on the site, [...]
In other words:
Navigate to your home page, or a small entry page on the same domain as appUrl (no need to wait until fully loaded).
Add your cookies.
Load appUrl. From then on you should be fine.