Chromdriver UserData configuration with Selenium-CodePudding

I have this simple function with Selenium

def config():
    path = r'C:\Users\George\Desktop\Bot\User Data'
    options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
    options.add_argument('user-data-dir='   path)
    options.add_experimental_option("excludeSwitches", ["enable-automation"])
    options.add_experimental_option('useAutomationExtension', False)
    options.add_argument('--disable-blink-features=AutomationControlled')

    driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\Users\George\Desktop\Bot\chromedriver.exe', chrome_options=options)
    return driver

Which is working fine and as expected, But am making a simple bot to do tasks over a website that require sessions and cookies and so on.

So what I have to make each now and then, Is to copy the real browser User Data from:

C:\Users\George\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data

to my random location

'C:\Users\George\Desktop\Bot\User Data'

And it works fine, The reason am doing this is that I want to avoid login, and have the browser that I work with independent with the bot driver browser, And I Usually keep it laid down and never open while its doing my work.

Question

Is there a way, That I can automatically get the current session instant of copying Files (like get one open tab with all information attached )?
Is there a better way to do this? ( am sure there are plenty of better ways)

Thanks for the help, Any suggestion, Links, Blogs are much appriciated.

CodePudding user response：

You won't be required to copy the real browser User Data from:

C:\Users\George\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data

to:

C:\Users\George\Desktop\Bot\User Data

each now and then if you point user-data-dir to the real google-chrome User Data directory as follows:

def config():
    options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
    # next line you need to replace the random location with actual browser data location
    options.add_argument(r"--user-data-dir=C:\Users\George\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data") 
    options.add_experimental_option("excludeSwitches", ["enable-automation"])
    options.add_experimental_option('useAutomationExtension', False)
    options.add_argument('--disable-blink-features=AutomationControlled')
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\Users\George\Desktop\Bot\chromedriver.exe', chrome_options=options)
    return driver

References

You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussion in:

Selenium: Point towards default Chrome session