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Setting options parameter for Selenium Firefox webdriver

I'm using Selenium's webdriver and GeckoDriverManager to open a website and take a screenshot in Firefox. That part works fine. I wanted to specify where to save this screenshot using selenium.webdriver.set_preference() to specify the download path and saving this under an options variable. If I use firefox_driver=webdriver.Firefox(service=service, options=options) the website no longer launches. This is the code I used to set the option preferences: https://stackoverflow.com/a/69974916
Does anyone have an idea where the problem might be coming from?
def load_driver():
service=Service(GeckoDriverManager().install())
options = Options()
options.set_preference("browser.helperApps.alwaysAsk.force", False)
options.set_preference("browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting", False)
options.set_preference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.openFile", "image/png")
options.set_preference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk", "image/png")
options.set_preference("browser.download.folderList", 1)
firefox_driver = webdriver.Firefox(service=service) #stops working if I add options=options parameter here
def getscreenshot():
driver = load_driver()
driver.get(website)
sleep(3)
driver.get_screenshot_as_file("screenshot.png")
driver.quit()
print("end...")

How to save firefox profiles to a folder using selenium and python

When i load a firefox profile into a selenium webdriver like this:
fp = webdriver.FirefoxProfile('c:/profile_folder_path')
driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path='geckodriver.exe', firefox_profile=fp)
it loads the profile fine and it works. But in situation where you pass an empty folder to FirefoxProfile()
like:
fp = webdriver.FirefoxProfile('c:/empty_path')
driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path='geckodriver.exe', firefox_profile=fp)
it doesn't create a new profile like chrome, edge and opera.
On Chrome
options = Options()
# This will save a new profile to the path if a profile is not there
options.add_argument(f'--user-data-dir="C:/empty_path"')
It also works on Edge and Opera.
Why doesn't it work on firefox and is there any way of achieving this?

Open chromedriver in normal mode (no incognito) in selenium python in linux ubuntu? [duplicate]

I'd like to launch Chrome with its default profile using Python's webdriver so that cookies and site preferences persist across sessions.
How can I do that?

This is what finally got it working for me.
from selenium import webdriver
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("user-data-dir=C:\\Path") #Path to your chrome profile
w = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:\\Users\\chromedriver.exe", chrome_options=options)
To find path to your chrome profile data you need to type chrome://version/ into address bar . For ex. mine is displayed as C:\Users\pc\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default, to use it in the script I had to exclude \Default\ so we end up with only C:\Users\pc\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data.
Also if you want to have separate profile just for selenium: replace the path with any other path and if it doesn't exist on start up chrome will create new profile and directory for it.

This solved my problem. (remove Default at the end)
from selenium import webdriver
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("--user-data-dir=/home/username/.config/google-chrome")
cls.driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options,
executable_path="./../ext/chromedriver")
Chrome_Options ist deprecated. Use options instead

I solved my problem with answer of "Yoannes Geissler".
In my case My profile was named "Profile 2"
My Code :
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--user-data-dir=C:/Users/GOD/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data')
options.add_argument('--profile-directory=Profile 2')
wd = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
The below line solved my problem:
options.add_argument('--profile-directory=Profile 2')

Just to share what worked for me. Using default's profile was complicated, chrome keeps crashing.
from pathlib import Path
from selenium import webdriver
driver_path = Path("{}/driver/chromedriver75.exe".format(PATH_TO_FOLDER))
user_data_dir = Path("{}/driver/User Data".format(PATH_TO_FOLDER))
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
# TELL WHERE IS THE DATA DIR
options.add_argument("--user-data-dir={}".format(user_data_dir))
# USE THIS IF YOU NEED TO HAVE MULTIPLE PROFILES
options.add_argument('--profile-directory=Default')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=driver_path, options=options)
driver.get("https://google.com/")
By doing this Chrome will create the folder User Data and keep all the data in it where I want and it's easy to just move your project to another machine.

This answer is pretty simple and self-explained.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
exec_path_chrome = "path/to/Google Chrome" #Do not use this path that is extracted from "chrome://version/"
exec_path_driver = "path/to/chromedriver"
ch_options = Options() #Chrome Options
ch_options.add_argument("user-data-dir = /path/to/Chrome Profile") #Extract this path from "chrome://version/"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path = exec_path_driver, options = ch_options) #Chrome_Options is deprecated. So we use options instead.
driver.get("https://stackoverflow.com/a/57894065/4061346")
As #MadRabbit said type chrome://version/ into the address bar to find the path to your chrome profile data.
It appears like this in Windows C:\Users\pc\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
It appears like this in Mac /Users/user/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default
So all you have to do is to erase the last portion Default from the profile path.
Note: Make sure you don't run more than one session at the same time to avoid problems.

This is what I did.
import chromedriver_binary
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_experimental_option("detach", True)
chrome_options.add_argument(r"--user-data-dir=User Data Directory")
chrome_options.add_argument(r"--profile-directory=Profile name")
chrome_options.add_experimental_option("useAutomationExtension", False)
chrome_options.add_experimental_option("excludeSwitches",["enable
logging"])
chrome_options.add_experimental_option("excludeSwitches", ["enable
automation"])
chrome_options.add_argument("start-maximized")
self.driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options)
self.wait = WebDriverWait(self.driver, 20)
Here we do not need to give the chrome driver path.

Why can chrome store this session data but firefox can not?

So I want to store a Whatsapp Web session in order to not having to scan Whatsapp Web's QR-Code every time. I did it with the following code:
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("--user-data-dir=C:/Users/Pascal/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data")
browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:/Users/Pascal/Desktop/chromedriver.exe", options = options)
browser.get("https://web.whatsapp.com/")
The above code worked perfectly (Chromebrowser) but the following code which is almost the same does not work:
options = webdriver.FirefoxOptions()
options.add_argument("--user-data-dir=C:/Users/Pascal/AppData/Roaming/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/iddwgmst.default-release")
browser = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path="C:/Users/Pascal/Desktop/geckodriver.exe", options = options)
browser.get("https://web.whatsapp.com/")
Why does it not work with firefox? The QR-Code comes up every time but I have loaded the firefox profile to the browser/driver so it seems like firefox does not store whatsapp webs data... But then, if I go into whatsapp web in my normal firefox browser, it stores the data again and I don't have to rescan... I am confused by this problem.
I really want it with firefox to be working cause chromedriver does not support emojis :/
Any Ideas?

I solved it.
For Firefox it works with:
profile = webdriver.firefox.firefox_profile.FirefoxProfile("C:/Users/Pascal/AppData/Roaming/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/iddwgmst.default-release")
self.browser = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)) + "\\geckodriver.exe" , firefox_profile = profile)
self.browser.get("https://web.whatsapp.com/")
But for chrome it works with:
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("--user-data-dir=C:/Users/Pascal/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data")
self.browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)) + "\\chromedriver.exe", options = options)
self.browser.get("https://web.whatsapp.com/")
Here, geckodriver and chromedriver are in the same folder as the main.py

How can I translate the webpage opened via Selenium Webdriver to English using Python?

This is my code so far:
username_input = "username"
password_input = "password"
url='myurl'
browser = webdriver.Chrome(r'chromedriver.exe')
browser.get(url)
browser.maximize_window()
username = browser.find_element_by_id("j_username")
password = browser.find_element_by_id("j_password")
username.send_keys(str(username_input))
password.send_keys(str(password_input))
browser.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="inner-box"]/form/label[3]/input').click()
time.sleep(2)
Once I have logged in everything is in French but I need it in English.. how do I do this?
I have tried several things such as Chrome Options but didn't understand it/wasn't working.
Any help will be appreciated.

add prefs below to auto translate french to english
options = Options()
prefs = {
"translate_whitelists": {"fr":"en"},
"translate":{"enabled":"true"}
}
options.add_experimental_option("prefs", prefs)
browser = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)
you can remove r'chromedriver.exe' if the location is in same folder with your script.

The correct solution is:
from selenium import webdriver
chrome_path = "D:\chromedriver_win32\chromedriver"
custom_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
prefs = {
"translate_whitelists": {"ru":"en"},
"translate":{"enabled":"true"}
}
custom_options.add_experimental_option("prefs", prefs)
driver=webdriver.Chrome(chrome_path, options=custom_options)

I suppose you have to set up Chrome options like:
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--lang=en")

The change of webpage language is determined by the browser settings. I tried practically almost all the strategies discussed and mentioned in the forum, but none of them worked for me. I was able to successfully achieve it by following the instructions outlined below.
Create a new Chrome profile (i.e. Profile 2). Then move the new profile directory in the "Documents" directory of "Users"
Now open Google Chrome (from new profile), "run as administrator" mode > open www.google.com > at the bottom of the page, click on "setting" > now click on "search setting" > select the "region setting" > select "United Kingdom" for opening the webpage only in English language.
Now follow the following java code snippet.
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Testing Work Space\\chromedriver.exe");
// Chrome actual new profile path is "C:\Users\shah\Documents\Profile 2\"
// but you have to keep the chromeProfilePath till "\Documents\" as follows
String chromeProfilePath = "C:\\Users\\shah\\Documents\\";
ChromeOptions chroOption = new ChromeOptions();
chroOption.addArguments("user-data-dir=" + chromeProfilePath);
// Here you specify the new Chrome profile folder (Profile 2)
chroOption.addArguments("profile-directory=Profile 2");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(chroOption);
driver.get("https://facebook.com");

All other answers not working for me. And I found bruteforce solution:
import pyautogui
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver import ActionChains
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
url = 'https://ifconfig.me/'
options = Options()
options.add_argument('--lang=fr') # set your language here
browser = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
browser.get(url)
actionChains = ActionChains(browser)
actionChains.context_click().perform()
# here maybe problem. Debug it:
for i in range(3):
pyautogui.sleep(1)
pyautogui.press('up')
pyautogui.press('enter')

As of September 2022, It seems like setting prefs doesn't work for chrome version 105. In order to solve this, you can either downgrade your chrome to version 95 or use selenium standalone docker. For the docker approach, You should pull and run standalone docker using:
docker pull selenium/standalone-chrome:95.0-chromedriver-95.0-20211102
docker run -d -p 4444:4444 --shm-size="2g" selenium/standalone-chrome:95.0-chromedriver-95.0-20211102
Then in your code use remoteDriver and apply prefs like this:
from selenium import webdriver
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--lang=en')
prefs = {
"translate_whitelists": {"es": "en"},
"translate": {"enabled": "true"}
}
options.add_experimental_option("prefs", prefs)
driver = webdriver.Remote(command_executor='http://localhost:4444/wd/hub', options=options)
driver.get("https://www.amazon.es/")