Cannot add unpacked extension on Ubuntu VPS

[iamumairayub]

I am trying to add an extension but script fails to run. When I comment out extension_dir line it works fine, but that is not what I want.

I same script on Windows headed and it works just fine.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from concurrent import futures

from seleniumbase import Driver

def run_session(profile_id):

    try:

        chrome_options = Options()

        chrome_options.add_argument('--headless=new')
        print(chrome_options.to_capabilities())

        driver = Driver(
            cap_string=chrome_options.to_capabilities(),
            uc=True, 
            extension_dir=r'/home/NopeCHA-CAPTCHA-Solver',
        )

        driver.get("http://lumtest.com/myip.json")
        print(driver.page_source)

        return 'finished'

    except:
        return traceback.format_exc()
    

with futures.ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=5) as executor:

    all_jobs = []
    for profile_id in (1,2,3):
        job = executor.submit(
            run_session, 
            profile_id,
        )
        all_jobs.append(job)

    for future in futures.as_completed(all_jobs):
        print('Run completed: {}'.format(future.result()))

I get this error when I run above code.

(The process started from chrome location /usr/bin/google-chrome is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed

Tried this, script runs, but no extension is added.

def run_session(profile_id):

    chrome_options = Options()

    chrome_options.add_argument('--headless=new')
    chrome_options.add_argument(r'--load-extension=/home/NopeCHA-CAPTCHA-Solver')

    print(chrome_options.to_capabilities())

    driver = Driver(
        cap_string=chrome_options.to_capabilities(),
        uc=True, 
    )

    driver.get("chrome://extensions/")
    print(driver.page_source)
    driver.save_screenshot('test.png')

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS
Release:        20.04
Codename:       focal

python -V
Python 3.10.7

>>> import seleniumbase
>>> seleniumbase.__version__
'4.21.4'

[mdmintz]

The cap_string is only for remote Selenium Grid use. (Remote Selenium Grids don't support UC Mode because SeleniumBase can't directly control the internals of drivers on remote machines.)

Use the built-in args for changing Chrome options. There's already a headless2 arg for using Chrome's newer headless mode:

SeleniumBase/seleniumbase/plugins/driver_manager.py

Line 68 in 01c98e2

headless2=None, # Chromium's new headless mode. (Has more features)

For your case, you may need to also a virtual display on Linux: https://github.com/mdmintz/sbVirtualDisplay (This is because you're using the Driver() format instead of the SB() or BaseCase formats, which handle virtual displays automatically.)

For your case on Linux, try:

from seleniumbase import Driver
from sbvirtualdisplay import Display

with Display(visible=0, size=(1440, 1880)):
    driver = Driver(uc=True, headless2=True, extension_dir='/home/NopeCHA-CAPTCHA-Solver'

Also, multithreaded SeleniumBase tests are only supported with pytest via pytest-xdist. (Eg. pytest -n5)
(ThreadPoolExecutor isn't supported). Details here:
#2006 (comment) and #2196 (comment)