Load Default chrome profile with Webdriverjs Selenium

Question

I am new to Selenium and Webdriver. I am trying to write tests using Webdriverjs in node. I want selenium to load my default chrome profile. This is what I am trying, but it still loads a new chrome profile.

var webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver');
var chrome = require('selenium-webdriver/chrome');
var o = new chrome.Options();
o.addArguments("--user-data-dir=/Users/karnesh/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default");
var driver = new webdriver.Builder().withCapabilities(webdriver.Capabilities.chrome())
            .setChromeOptions(o).build(); 

Any ideas where I am going wrong??

Also, I was not able to find a documentation for webdriverjs. Any links to it (if it exists) would be helpful . Thanks

Answer 1

chrome://version is your friend - by using it you can see what is your current profile path.

I'm using 2.46.1 on Windows8 machine and after wasting (investing) a few hours of my time I realised that Default is appended by default.

So in order to use my another profile - "Profile 1" - I have to copy it somewhere and place it under Default directory.

Not sure if that's a bug or a feature.

UPDATE: https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/854