Issue Configuring Chrome Options with Selenium WebDriver in JavaScript

Question

I'm facing an issue when trying to open a specific site using Selenium WebDriver in JavaScript with the Chrome browser. The code below creates the browser driver, but it doesn't open the site when I use setChromeOptions(options). If I remove this line, the site opens normally. It seems there is something wrong with the Chrome options configuration. Additionally, I'm using a for loop because I need the driver to open all 4 browser profiles.

code:

const { Builder, Browser, By } = require("selenium-webdriver");
const chrome = require('selenium-webdriver/chrome');

const DEFAULT_DIR = "user-data-dir=C:\\Users\\allan\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data";
const PROFILES = ["profile-directory=Profile 3", "profile-directory=Profile 4", "profile-directory=Profile 5", "profile-directory=Profile 7"];            
                //GOMES = Profile 3     /       MODAS = Profile 4       /       ROCCO = Profile 5       /       STORE = Profile 7

async function run(){
    //for (let i = 0; i < PROFILES.length; i++){
        var options = new chrome.Options();
        options.addArguments("user-data-dir=C:\\Users\\allan\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data");
        options.addArguments(PROFILES[1]);

        let navegador = await new Builder()
            .forBrowser(Browser.CHROME)
            //.setChromeOptions(options)
            .build();

        await navegador.get("https://sellercentral.amazon.com.br/home"); 
    //}
}

run();

The problematic line seems to be setChromeOptions(options). If I comment out this line, the browser opens the site correctly. Is there something wrong with the Chrome options I'm passing?

Any help is appreciated!

The loop is currently disabled as I am trying to resolve the configuration settings first.

Error: SessionNotCreatedError: session not created: Chrome failed to start: exited normally. (session not created: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist) (The process started from chrome location C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)

JeffC · Accepted Answer · 2024-05-23 14:07:31Z

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I don't recognize this format,

"profile-directory=Profile 3"

According to the docs, it should look like

options.addArguments("user-data-dir=/path/to/your/custom/profile");

To confirm this is the issue, you can comment out each .addArguments() line, one at a time and see if it loads. I'm assuming it will work with the second line commented out.

answered May 23, 2024 at 14:07

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6 Comments

Allan Aristides Over a year ago

I was researching how to open a specific profile and found something at this link: stackoverflow.com/questions/66160500/…. The code manages to open the correct browser, but it crashes.

JeffC Over a year ago

Did you try the code and read the docs link I provided?

Allan Aristides Over a year ago

I tried, removed that line that mentions the profile, and put the whole directory in one line, but it opened a session as a guest, moreover, the class described in the documentation was giving an error, as if it didn't exist.

JeffC Over a year ago

Right... that means that the profile line is what is causing the issue. You need to figure out what the correct syntax is for adding a profile and that's what I send you in the link. The link is the official documentation and should work, if you are using it correctly.

Allan Aristides Over a year ago

I looked into the documentation in more detail. From what I understand, that is a class used in Java. The error currently being displayed is: SessionNotCreatedError: session not created: Chrome failed to start: exited normally. (session not created: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist) (The process started from chrome location C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)

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