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How to use Brave web browser with python, selenium and chromedriver?

I switched from Google's Chrome to Brave web browser and am having a hard time getting it to work with Brave like it did with Chrome. Brave is based on chromium so I guessed it should not be that hard. I made sure that my Brave and Chromedriver are on the same version like this,

~/some/path $ chromedriver --version
ChromeDriver 76.0.3809.126 (d80a294506b4c9d18015e755cee48f953ddc3f2f-refs/branch-heads/3809@{#1024})

My chromedriver is also in /user/bin,

~/path $ cd /usr/bin/
/usr/bin $ ls | grep chromedriver
chromedriver

And to check the Brave version, I get: Version 0.68.132 Chromium: 76.0.3809.132 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Then I run this code,

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='/usr/bin/brave-browser')
driver.get("http://www.python.org")
driver.close()

This opens a Brave window but then instead of getting the page the driver is pointed to, an exception is thrown,

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "webscrap.py", line 3, in <module>
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='/usr/bin/brave-browser')
  File "/home/username/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 73, in __init__
    self.service.start()
  File "/home/username/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 98, in start
    self.assert_process_still_running()
  File "/home/username/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 111, in assert_process_still_running
    % (self.path, return_code)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Service /usr/bin/brave-browser unexpectedly exited. Status code was: -11
Solution

  • I finally managed to make it work:

    Try this python script (python3.7)

    from selenium import webdriver

driver_path = "C:/Users/username/PycharmProjects/chromedriver.exe"
brave_path = "C:/Program Files (x86)/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Application/brave.exe"

option = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
option.binary_location = brave_path
# option.add_argument("--incognito") OPTIONAL
# option.add_argument("--headless") OPTIONAL

# Create new Instance of Chrome
browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=driver_path, chrome_options=option)

browser.get("https://www.google.es")

    cheers.