Trying to open url in google chrome, but closes immediately after being launched with selenium-CodePudding

I tried to launch chrome with selenium. but as soon as the browser loads the urls, google chrome closes automatically. here is the code:

'''

from selenium import webdriver
url= 'https://www.gmail.com'
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())
driver.get(url)

'''

CodePudding user response：

Because selenium4 no need to use driver.close() method they automatically close the driver after execution. So options.add_experimental_option("detach", True) argument will help you to prevent to close immediately after once launch the url with google chrome

# selenium 4
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
import time

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("start-maximized")

#chrome to stay open
options.add_experimental_option("detach", True)

driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service(ChromeDriverManager().install()),options=options)
url= 'https://www.gmail.com'
driver.get(url)
time.sleep(2)

CodePudding user response：

I tried the following code instead. I dont know why it worked this time. I just changed the code for loading chrome driver location. can anyone please explain why it worked now and what was the problem before. '''

from selenium import webdriver
url= 'https://www.gmail.com'
# from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
# driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())
chrome_driver_location ='chromedriver.exe'
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=chrome_driver_location)
driver.get(url)

'''