How to set permanent user profile for Selenium - Chrome/Edge

How to set permanent user profile for Selenium - Chrome/Edge profile

When you are recording/running a test via Selenium browser profiles in Rapise - by default a new user profile is created when new instance of a browser is launched. It means that new browser instance starts with empty cache, no cookies, etc. Sometimes it complicates testing. If you are testing a Web application that requires SMS/Email code to authorize a browser then you will have to do it every time. Automation of input of SMS/Email codes may be really hard. It is much easier to authorize a browser manually once and then run tests for long period of time. To make it work you will need to configure a permanent user profile for the browser used for testing. Learn how to do it for Chrome/Edge from this article.

Open browser profile settings and set Chrome args to

["user-data-dir=C:\\ProgramData\\Inflectra\\Rapise\\Temp\\Chrome"]

Note: this method is not compatible with parallel execution of tests.

Default Folder For User Profiles

If you do not specify user-data-dir argument then chromedriver.exe will be creating temp profiles in

C:\Windows\SystemTemp

A profile folder name looks like

C:\Windows\SystemTemp\scoped_dir2036_1485650897

With time you may end up with a lot of such folders and they will occupy noticeable disk space. It is safe to delete all scoped_dir* folders inside C:\Windows\SystemTemp to free up disk space.

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How to set permanent user profile for Selenium - Chrome/Edge profile

Default Folder For User Profiles

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