Python Selenium with Chrome takes 2 minutes to start?-CodePudding

in python I have:

driver = webdriver.Chrome(desired_capabilities=caps, service=Service(ChromeDriverManager().install()),
                                  options=chrome_options)

which takes a very very long time to finish, I took a look at my terminal and here is what I see:

====== WebDriver manager ======
Current google-chrome version is 100.0.4896
Get LATEST chromedriver version for 100.0.4896 google-chrome

Driver [/Users/Roi/.wdm/drivers/chromedriver/mac64/100.0.4896.60/chromedriver] found in cache

Where the last line is printed after 2 minutes....

NOTE: this problem wasn't happening 1 week ago, I don't know what have changed since then...

CodePudding user response：

As you are using Webdriver Manager for Python ChromeDriverManager will always check for the latest google-chrome installed within your system and subsequently check if the matching chromedriver is available in your system cache.

Further desired_capabilities property is deprecated in favour of capabilities property since Selenium 4.0 Alpha 7:

Deprecate desired_capabilities property in favour of capabilities property

Solution

The exection kickoff time can be optimized by merging the desired_capabilities and options which is available since Selenium 4.0 Beta 1:

Improve how desired_capabilities and options are merged