selenium-webdriverselenium-chromedriversmooth-scrolling

How can I enable smooth scrolling when using Selenium with Chrome?

In Selenium, using the WebDriver, I can set experimental options as follows:

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_experimental_option('excludeSwitches', ['enable-logging'])
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)

In Chrome version 132, there is an experimental option to enable Smooth Scrolling. How can I enable this option in Selenium?

Smooth scrolling is not enabled by default in Chrome.

Solution

  • Use the --enable-smooth-scrolling flag with add_argument:

    from selenium import webdriver
# Create Chrome options
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
# Enable Smooth Scrolling via command-line switch
options.add_argument("--enable-smooth-scrolling")
# Initialize WebDriver with options
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)

    --enable-smooth-scrollingmust be passed using add_argument not add_experimental_option, because it's a command-line switch rather than a Chrome experimental option.