无法在Debian上使用Selenium加载Chrome配置文件

Question

I've successfully managed to load a Chrome Profile on MAC and I was trying to replicate the same on Linux but without success (Debian). I'm using Python, and the following works just fine on a MAC

from selenium import webdriver
chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_argument("user-data-dir=/Users/username/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome")
driver = webdriver.Chrome('./chromedriver', options=chrome_options)

The same code on Debian, just doesn't work...

from selenium import webdriver
chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_argument("--user-data-dir=/home/username/.config/google-chrome")
# I've tried also without the `--` but same outcome
# chrome_options.add_argument("user-data-dir=/home/username/.config/google-chrome")
driver = webdriver.Chrome('./chromedriver_linux', options=chrome_options)

I honestly now idea what's wrong. I'm using chromedriver 2.45 https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=2.45/ and the issue is related to "Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)" ...

In terms of launching Chrome, they both works. The difference is that on MAC it loads the profile, on Debian it doesn't.

Anyone has an idea why this is happening?

Answer 1

Right, so after many headaches, apparently this is something to do with the fact than I'm using CRD (Chrome Remote Desktop) to connect to the Linux instances!

In fact, you can check the profile location loading chrome://version . When connecting with CRD, this changes from the usual /home/user/.config/google-chrome to /home/user/.config/chrome-remote-desktop/chrome-profile/

All I needed to do is basically replace with the CRD directory to get all the profile information I wanted!

from selenium import webdriver
chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
#chrome_options.add_argument("--user-data-dir=/home/user/.config/google-chrome")
chrome_options.add_argument("--user-data-dir=/home/user/.config/chrome-remote-desktop/chrome-profile/")
driver = webdriver.Chrome('./chromedriver_linux', options=chrome_options)

Hopefully this will be helpful for others! :)