how to open chrome with a specific google account with pywinauto

Question

Recently I have been trying to automate a log in process which has lots of hoops to jump through like scheduling a time slot on a google calendar and opening 2 programs and I have started building it with pywinauto already and put a lot of work into figuring it out.

The issue I am having is that when i open chrome with:

from pywinauto.application import Application
chrome_dir = '"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"'
start_args = ' --force-renderer-accessibility --start-maximized https://#URLHERE#.com'
app = Application(backend="uia").start(chrome_dir+start_args)

it opens with the wrong google profile and I need it to open with the other.

I have tried reading through the documentation and have had a really hard time coming up with a solution to this. I also tried to just open it with the profile selector but I would much rather not have to click on something which may not come up right away or change in the future to get the right account. I would much rather it just be done when launching. Any ideas?

Answer 1

It would open using PyAutoGUI, then you would select to choose profile when starting in Chrome. Using this pywinauto I don't know how to use it, and I'm also on linux, so I can't test it here to help you.

Answer 2

To open Google Chrome with a specific profile you have to add --profile-directory=PROFILE

There's a super easy way to identify the profile directory: go to chrome://version and check the Profile Path. Assuming you are seeing /path/to/your/PROFILE, use --user-data-dir=/path/to/your --profile-directory=PROFILE. If your user data directory is the default location (the last paragraph in the answer) you can omit it.

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