Undetected chromedriver: uc.ChromeOptions() doesn't works-CodePudding

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I'm trying to use uc.ChromeOptions() to do some options.add_argument() to change the user agent of my Selenium bot and a long with a few other things. However, based on the page source I got from https://httpbin.org/anything, my user-agent was not changed and is the same user-agent of my google chrome browser. Also, when my driver is first load, there are 3 tabs, one with the user-agent as the url, one with "http://disable-notifications/" (which laters turn into the correct url https://httpbin.org/anything), and one with "disable-popup-blocking/". uc.ChromeOptions() in my case is clearly not working...

Could someone pls point out where I am wrong and how I can fix this? Thank you very much. Below is my code:

from fake_useragent import UserAgent
import undetected_chromedriver as uc

if __name__ == "__main__":
    opts = uc.ChromeOptions()
    ua = UserAgent()
    #add fake user agent to my driver
    opts.add_argument(str(ua['google chrome']))
    # block pop-up and notifications:
    opts.add_argument("disable-popup-blocking")
    opts.add_argument("disable-notifications")

    driver = uc.Chrome(version_main=98, options=opts)

    driver.get("https://httpbin.org/anything ")

    print(driver.page_source)

CodePudding user response：

Answer:

"Use the actual command line switch to change the user agent. Command line switches all begin with -- or they'll be interpreted as an url."

from fake_useragent import UserAgent
import undetected_chromedriver as uc

if __name__ == "__main__":
    ua = UserAgent()
    wanted_user_agent = ua["google chrome"]
    print(f"{wanted_user_agent=}")

    options = uc.ChromeOptions()
    options.add_argument(f"--user-agent={wanted_user_agent}")
    options.add_argument("--disable-popup-blocking")
    options.add_argument("--disable-notifications")
    driver = uc.Chrome(options=options)

    driver.get("https://httpbin.org/anything")

    # it works !
    actual_user_agent = driver.execute_script("return navigator.userAgent")
    print(f"{actual_user_agent=}")