How to connect Selenium to an existing browser that was opened manually?

[@cosmocode5065]

UPDATE: If you are facing some issues with the steps I have written a troubleshooting section in my article - cosmocode.io/how-to-connect-selenium-to-an-existing-browser-that-was-opened-manually/

[@JoshGodwinArt]

I don't get why selenium wouldn't make this super easy by default. Who wants to have to run through each step to debug one thing. Thanks this helps a ton.

[@jfabiorp12]

Thanks a lot for the video. I had a problem when typed 127.0.0.1:9222 on the other browser opened, got the error: 127.0.0.1 ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED. This happened because I had installled selenium basic in the system (replaced the chromedriver with chrome when I was working with excel VBA) and discovered that was the issue. So, removed seleniumbasic and worked! Just to inform if anyone gets this error.

[@cosmocode5065]

Thanks for sharing your findings.

[@lautarob]

I'm having a similar issue and I did install Selenium for VBA. What is not clear for me is why Selenium VBA is preventing the connection. It just doesn't make any sense to me.

[@carlosantoniomarroquin5520]

I know your comment is very old but I want to thank you. You've helped me a lot. I had to restart windows but uninstalling Selenium for VBA was the solution :)

[@sauravsuman1138]

This was something I was looking for. Thank you so much , now I think my problem will be solved

[@IjazUrRahim]

Thank You, it is helpful for bypassing some Anti-Bot Modules

[@cosmocode5065]

I am glad you found it helpful

[@jimsheff6354]

Brilliant stuff... I never knew it was possible with Selenium

[@gentleberry185]

pls help. I made user directory in cmd as shown. the folder is created in c drive. but when I try to access it from new Google chrome by entering 127.0.0.1:9222 , it's showing site cannot be reached and 127.0.0.1 refused to connect

[@christoherright6430]

GOD bless you. This is what exactly I looking for.

[@marctucker9317]

How do we add the chromeoptions in VBA. Is it SetCapabilities or SetPreferences? Do we use Setbinary to point to the executable in the debug folder?

[@svkprs]

i need this code for c#

[@JyotiSharma-yd7cj]

It was much needed info. Thanks

[@abhijithj1665]

How do we achieve this with mozilla firefox . Kindly help

[@vineeths1710]

Thanks ..working fine in c#

[@judy3802]

This helped me with Python Selenium !! thank u!

[@cosmocode5065]

Thanks Judy

[@petenjs3500]

Thank you very much been stuck on this for days! :D

[@sukhrajbuttar]

Thanks for the great information but do you know how to perform same task in firefox.

[@Nikunjchoksi]

Hi All - I am facing one issue like I wanted to connect manually opened chrome browser with selenium driver so, How can we do this using .Net code any idea?? Help would be appreciated.

[@karlhanso]

the best againts captcha haha

[@KrzysztofSpikowski]

good stuff, is there a way to open a new tab in that session with python?

[@cosmocode5065]

There are certainly ways(hacks) to open new tabs. I would be interested in knowing your use-case so that I can suggest you better way

[@darkevil9348]

Do we also had to add driver.get () because in my case it is giving me error that couldnt located the element.

[@subhashm6142]

How to do this for internet explorer, I mean i could not find any command like options.setExperimentalOptions() for internet explorer. Could you tell the code to do the same for internet explorer as like chrome.

[@julioauy2194]

This has helped me tons !!

[@cosmocode5065]

Thanks Julio. I am glad it helped you.

[@mohinisarode9962]

How to do for Internet explore plz help

[@julioauy2194]

Wow !!!! If I could give you 1000 likes, I would do it my friend. I've been looking for this information all over the place and you are the only who not only had the answer but also explained it step by step.

[@cosmocode5065]

Thanks Julio for the kind words.

[@sunlight_math]

IT's not working.

[@gowthamgopinathan989]

Awesome, Thank you so much for this tutorial, this helps a lot.

[@cosmocode5065]

Thank you

[@thiagosouza8931]

Obrigado! Thank you!

[@thiripurasundarip7098]

Can you please tell the same for firefox options, since the properties are different here and cannot use the same. for example debugger address I'm not finding in firefox options.

[@mohitpannu27]

how we can do this with firefox?

[@fun2u688]

Could you please tell me how to connect Selenium to an existing MS Edge browser?

[@kanakTheGold]

Thanks you! However for FireFox, the Options class does not have add_experimental_options method defined, through which we pass on the debuggerAddress and it's value 127.0.0.1:9014 in case of Chrome.

[@Jerometk]

Were yoi able to do it on firefox?

[@kanakTheGold]

@@Jerometk nope, the solution here is pertinent only to chrome, the mentioned options just do not exist for Firefox. Nor could I find a solution from elsewhere.

[@akhandpathi7461]

@@kanakTheGold Same. I am trying to find too. No luck. Please let us know if you find.

[@AndreaTheSin]

Hi, i folllow your guide, but when I create WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options); another chrome window open.

[@EalhamAlMusabbir]

Thanks a lot... Any idea how to do it for Firefox?

[@johnkeenan8349]

did you have any luck on running this in firefox, i got it working in chrome but wanted to switch over

[@yuhengkit4427]

@@cosmocode5065 can you show me how to update Firefox Profile since firefox doesn't have add.experimental_option function?

[@akshathbharathi7376]

How to do it in firefox?

[@jakshshaks3000]

Do you know how to do it on Opera?

[@automateboringstuffwithraj]

Hello sir, my code is running well but the page is not appearing after logged in . What's the error??

[@amanmagotra6304]

My selenium application is deployed in server. And whenever I hit the url of the application from my local machine, i can use the application but when i execute any test case, it opens the browser over the server. Is there any way that the selenium browser should open on my local machine, when i am accessing the application through url from my local

[@uriri490]

hi. can you make a C# version with Firefox? I'm searching for days and i cant managing to do. Thanks in advance.

[@avelinosarmiento705]

Is it possible to connect to existing browser for edge?

[@cosmocode5065]

Latest edge is also based on chromium so the similar approach should work there. Unfortunately I have not got chance to try it.

[@sush6556]

hi how can we do the same with ruby in ubuntu

[@cosmocode5065]

Hi, unfortunately I do not have experience with Ruby. However I think you can follow the same steps, just write the corresponding Ruby code by referring the Java/Python example here.

[@Livespiritful]

My Requirement is: Prerequisites: 1) Launch Google Chrome as "Run as Different User" (Right click of the Chrome icon) 2) Enter Windows user and password in the popup when it appears 3) Google chrome launches manually Actual Test begins: I need to enable the bridge with the manually opened Google Chrome browser and then continue the rest of the test. Do you have any solution? Your help is very much appreciated.

[@sathishyadav6517]

Thank you

[@Jerometk]

I'm not able to make it work with firefox

[@codestudio497]

everything set up correctly but it open a new browser everytime i run the code

[@maynerpts]

спасибо

[@jeffchen3682]

Hi I followed this video and it worked on my laptop. I could control the existing brower with selenium automation. However, it still cannot bypass Google re-captcha. Is it possible to bypass captcha with selenium?

[@cosmocode5065]

I wish I could provide a way to bypass captcha. Unfortunately the whole purpose of captcha is so that it cannot be bypassed. If the development of the app is within the same team/organisation may be you can talk to the team if they can provide some workarounds for the test environment?

[@aryaks5808]

After hitting enter on cmd i got message as chrome cant read and write to its directory. Could you please suggest a solution???

[@cosmocode5065]

looks like the path you provided for chrome profile does not have read-write access. Maybe you can try changing path?

[@sajjadhossan7972]

Is it possible on the firefox browser? Please reply...

[@goldenmeditationhealingrel1436]

Looks like he is searching :)

[@tomwseeman]

This is functionality I really need. My issue is I get an error message, "'Options' object has no attribute 'add'". Any suggestion on how I resolve this issue? Thanks

[@cosmocode5065]

If you are facing some issues with the steps I have written a troubleshooting section in my article - cosmocode.io/how-to-connect-selenium-to-an-existing-browser-that-was-opened-manually/

[@chienphamdanh3684]

Thank you ##

[@shilmohan5437]

This does not work anymore.

[@sandeeps7016]

thanks

[@vitorpolovanick]

my cmd says chrome.exe is not recognized as an intern command......

[@lautarob]

Than means that the path for chrome is unknow to the system. Try to start chrome from a command prompt in its directory

[@MrMadhur18]

how we can do it for mac

[@zil00me]

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[@xzfadrh]

What are benefits of connecting webdriver to manually opened browser? Can anyone explain ? :)

[@uriri490]

Why do we want Selenium to connect to a previously opened browser? Maybe you want to perform some tasks that require manual intervention before kicking in automation execution.

[@oliverli9630]

automation rebellion!!

[@aravindtest1565]

Is it possible to do it on Linux as well?