[🐛 Bug]: [py] --user-data-dir requires a non-default directory

[azim218]

1. what I wanted to happen
2. what happened

Description

1. I was trying to open a website with selenium
2. I excpected it to open
3. It launched the right chrome profile, but did nothing else

 DevTools remote debugging requires a non-default data directory. Specify this using --user-data-dir.
WARNING: All log messages before absl::InitializeLog() is called are written to STDERR
I0000 00:00:1756494378.641163   15748 voice_transcription.cc:58] Registering VoiceTranscriptionCapability
Created TensorFlow Lite XNNPACK delegate for CPU.
Attempting to use a delegate that only supports static-sized tensors with a graph that has dynamic-sized tensors (tensor#-1 is a dynamic-sized tensor).
[11032:15816:0829/220618.694:ERROR:google_apis\gcm\engine\registration_request.cc:291] Registration response error message: DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT

5. the code

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options


chromedriver_path = r"C:\Users\emila\Downloads\chromedriver.exe"


options = Options()
options.add_argument(r"user-data-dir=C:\Users\emila\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data")
options.add_argument("profile-directory=Profile 1")


service = Service(executable_path=chromedriver_path)
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service, options=options)


driver.get("https://www.example.com")

Reproducible Code

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options


chromedriver_path = r"C:\Users\emila\Downloads\chromedriver.exe"


options = Options()
options.add_argument(r"user-data-dir=C:\Users\emila\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data")
options.add_argument("profile-directory=Profile 1")


service = Service(executable_path=chromedriver_path)
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service, options=options)


driver.get("https://www.example.com")

Debugging Logs

DevTools remote debugging requires a non-default data directory. Specify this using --user-data-dir.
WARNING: All log messages before absl::InitializeLog() is called are written to STDERR
I0000 00:00:1756494378.641163   15748 voice_transcription.cc:58] Registering VoiceTranscriptionCapability
Created TensorFlow Lite XNNPACK delegate for CPU.
Attempting to use a delegate that only supports static-sized tensors with a graph that has dynamic-sized tensors (tensor#-1 is a dynamic-sized tensor).
[11032:15816:0829/220618.694:ERROR:google_apis\gcm\engine\registration_request.cc:291] Registration response error message: DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT

[selenium-ci]

@azim218, thank you for creating this issue. We will troubleshoot it as soon as we can.

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[cgoldberg]

If you are using regular Chrome (not Chrome for Testing), Google has made recent security changes that disallow setting --user-data-dir to point to Chrome's real profile directory. If you want to specify a profile using that flag, the profile will need to reside in a non-standard directory.

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/remote-debugging-port

[azim218]

If you are using regular Chrome (not Chrome for Testing), Google has made recent security changes that disallow setting --user-data-dir to point to Chrome's real profile directory. If you want to specify a profile using that flag, the profile will need to reside in a non-standard directory.

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/remote-debugging-port

what do you mean in a non standart directory
when I move it, it doesnt save any cookies. or data, or logged accounts

[cgoldberg]

To a different location, outside of Chrome's default "User Data" directory.

[azim218]

To a different location, outside of Chrome's default "User Data" directory.

I moved it, and it deleted all cookies
everytime I login and then launch the code, it delets the cookies

[cgoldberg]

This isn't a Selenium issue, so I really can't help you further.