Use Selenium with Brave Browser pass service object written in python-CodePudding

#TLDR I want to use brave browser with selenium written in python but can't find any current solutions that work.

This code works

from selenium import webdriver
option = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
option.binary_location = r'C:\Program Files\BraveSoftware\Brave- 
Browser\Application\brave.exe'
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\WebDrivers\chromedriver.exe', 
options=option)
driver.get("https://www.google.com")
driver.quit()

but executable_path is deprecated:

C:\Users\USER\PycharmProjects\pythonProject\sol2.py:5: 
DeprecationWarning: executable_path has been deprecated, please pass in a Service object 
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\WebDrivers\chromedriver.exe', options=option)

Found this on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMzmVFA-Gps

# import statements
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service

# Declare variables and setup services
driverService = Service('C:/webdrivers/chromedriver.exe')   
# 1. Passes the chromedriver path to the service object
# 2. stores the service object in the s variable
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=driverService)            
# 1. Passes service object s into the webdriver.Chrome  
# 2. Stores object in driver variable 

# Body (actually doing stuff)
driver.maximize_window()                # maximizes the browser window
driver.get("https://www.google.com")    # navigates to google.com
myPageTitle = driver.title              
# gets the title of the web page stores in myPageTitle
print(myPageTitle)                      # prints myPageTitle to Console
assert "Google" in myPageTitle          
# checks myPageTitle to ensure it contains Google

# clean up
driver.quit()                           # closes the browser

When I run this code I get: selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: cannot find Chrome binary

This code works as long as you allow Google Chrome onto your PC. I don't want Chrome on my PC.

The problem is that I can't figure out how to get selenium to use brave instead of Chrome.

As of this writing I am using the following:
Windows 11 Home
Selenium v4.0.0
Python v3.10
ChromeDriver 95.0.4638.69
Brave Browser Version 1.31.91 Chromium: 95.0.4638.69 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Can some one please explain how to make this work with the current (read nondeprecated) code on brave browser? Thanks for your time.

CodePudding user response：

you have to set your path to brave binary.

options.setBinary("Path to brave.exe");

Go through this website:

https://mundrisoft.com/tech-bytes/how-to-execute-selenium-script-in-brave-browser/

CodePudding user response：

To initiate a brave browsing context you need to:

Use the binary_location attribute to point to the brave binary location.
Use the chromedriver executable to initiate the brave browser.

Code block:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service

option = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
option.binary_location = r'C:\Program Files (x86)\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\Application\brave.exe'
driverService = Service('C:/Users/.../chromedriver.exe')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=driverService, options=option)
driver.get("https://www.google.com")

Note: The DeprecationWarning: executable_path has been deprecated is a harmless warning message which doesn't affects your test execution and you can still ignore it.

References

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