Is there a way to whitelist chromedriver process name while killing other processes?-CodePudding

First of all, I'd like to say this is a personal script and I am the only person who is ever going to run it.

I am writing a productivity program that blocks applications from running at a certain time, chrome is one of them. However, I do a lot of web scraping in a daily basis, so I need to 'whitelist' chromedriver from closing while the code is running.

This is how I'm using it:

import subprocess
imgNames = ["Chrome.exe"] # There are several processes on this list, not only chrome.
for img in imgNames:
     subprocess.call(['taskkill', '/F', '/IM', img], shell=True)

Since chromedriver has the same .exe name, I'm thinking maybe there is a way of changing the process name or perhaps some other way of identifying it, so it stays open during the block sessions.

CodePudding user response：

You can adopt a strategy to exclude the list of whilelist_process from the entire list of total_processes as follows:

whilelist_process = "chromedriver.exe"
total_processes = ["Chrome.exe", ...] # There are several processes on this list, not only chrome.
kill_processes = [x for x in total_processes if x != whilelist_process]
for proc in kill_processes:
     subprocess.call(['taskkill', '/F', '/IM', proc], shell=True)

CodePudding user response：

For anyone in the future facing the same problem: It's probably not the answer you were expecting, but I ended up using Firefox's geckodriver instead of chromedriver and now I'm able to kill the chromedriver and still have a selenium browser opened while the rest gets blocked.