How to open a profile using WebDriver in python selenium?

Question

I want to open a specific profile using webdriver, but I am Geeting errors while opening it.

raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)

InvalidArgumentException: invalid argument
  (Session info: MicrosoftEdge=118.0.2088.69)

Answer 1

Hi @sonu rajput

Do you use Edge browser? If yes, you can refer to the following code sample. Please note that change the Edge WebDriver path and Profile path to your owns. Please kill all existing Edge instance before you execute the code:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.edge.service import Service
from time import sleep

ser = Service("E:\\webdriver\\msedgedriver.exe")
edge_options = webdriver.EdgeOptions()
edge_options.use_chromium = True
edge_options.add_argument("user-data-dir=C:\\Users\\Administrator\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\Edge\\User Data")
edge_options.add_argument("profile-directory=Profile 1")

driver = webdriver.Edge(service = ser,options = edge_options)
driver.get('https://www.bing.com')

sleep(20)

You can find the profile path in edge://version/:

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Answer 2

It seems like you’re trying to open a specific profile using Selenium WebDriver and encountering an InvalidArgumentException. This error typically occurs when an invalid argument is passed to a method.

If you’re trying to open a specific browser profile, you might need to specify the correct path to the profile in your WebDriver options. Here’s an example of how you can do this:

from selenium import webdriver

from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()

options.add_argument("user-data-dir=C:\path\to\your\profile") # replace with your path

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="your_driver_path", options=options) # replace with your driver path

Please replace "C:\path\to\your\profile" with the actual path to your browser profile and "your_driver_path" with the path to your WebDriver executable.

Also, ensure that the profile is not in use when you’re running your script, as this can cause issues.