Okay, so I am using my approach as stated above.
My requirements were:
- I must keep the cookies of the main chrome profile
- I must keep extensions of the main profile
- I do not need the history, opened tabs, session etc. of the main profile
- after a new start of an existing custom profile - i start it clear without opened tabs
Here is the logic in few words.
- First I specify a directory for the existing Google Chrome profile.
- If we need to create cookies (i.e. login into some website) then we do it on the main profile of google chrome.
- After it is done, close the chrome. Some websites keep cookies for a long time, some - not. So it is in our interest to relogin on the main profile when necessary. Do not keep the Original chrome opened! Otherwise ChromeDriver will throw some warnings.
- Next, my script will copy the necessary folders and files into new folder. This folder is our new profile with all cookies. Everything is about 30 megabytes in size on my PC.
- If the folder for the new profile already exists - then the program will only copy cookies files. That's shouldn't be more than 1-2 megs of data.
And here is the code. You might want to tweak one thing or another.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using OpenQA.Selenium;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Firefox;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Internal;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Remote;
using System.IO;
using System.Drawing.Imaging;
using System.Management;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Threading;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Collections.Concurrent;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Net;
namespace NAMESPACE
{
public class CoreDriver
{
public IWebDriver driver;
public string my_name { get; set; }
public int my_port { get; set; }
public string default_profile_dir = @"C:UsersUSERNAMEAppDataLocalGoogleChrome";
public string chromedriver_path = @"C:UsersUSERNAMEDownloadschromedriver_win32";
public string site_profile_path;
public string site_profile_path_s;
public string default_path;
public void Initialize()
{
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.AddArgument("--log-level=3");
options.AddArgument("--test-type");
options.AddArgument("--silent");
options.AddArgument("user-data-dir=" + site_profile_path_s);
options.AddArgument("--disable-plugins"); // disable flash
var driverService = ChromeDriverService.CreateDefaultService(chromedriver_path);
driverService.HideCommandPromptWindow = true;
driverService.Port = my_port;
driver = new ChromeDriver(driverService, options);
driver.Manage().Timeouts().ImplicitlyWait(new TimeSpan(0, 0, 14));
driver.Manage().Timeouts().SetPageLoadTimeout(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(15));
IJavaScriptExecutor jscript = driver as IJavaScriptExecutor;
jscript.ExecuteScript("return window.stop");
}
public void ConfigureProfile()
{
site_profile_path_s = default_profile_dir + "profile " + my_name;
site_profile_path = site_profile_path_s + @"Default";
default_path = default_profile_dir + @"User DataDefault";
if (!Directory.Exists(site_profile_path))
{
CreateBlankProfile();
}
else
{
// copy existing chrome profile. Keep cache, extensions, etc.
CopyProfileFiles();
// but stay away from opened tabs
RemoveOpenedTabsFiles();
}
}
public void CleanUpOldProfiles()
{
DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(default_profile_dir);
DirectoryInfo[] directories = di.GetDirectories("profile*", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly);
if (directories.Count() > 0)
{
foreach (var folder in directories)
{
try
{
Directory.Delete(folder.FullName, true);
}
catch
{
}
}
}
}
public void CreateBlankProfile()
{
// new profile direftory
CreateIfMissing();
// copy existing chrome profile. Keep cache, extensions, etc.
// but stay away from opened tabs
CopyProfileFiles();
CopyProfileFolders();
}
public void CopyProfileFiles()
{
// default profile location
DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(default_path);
// copy files
List<string> file_lib = new List<string>() { "Cookies", "Login", "Preferences", "Secur" };
FileInfo[] files = di.GetFiles("*", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly);
if (files.Count() > 0)
{
foreach (var file in files)
{
if (PassFileOrFolder(file.Name, file_lib))
{
file.CopyTo(site_profile_path + @"" + file.Name, true);
}
}
}
}
public void RemoveOpenedTabsFiles()
{
// default profile location
DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(site_profile_path);
// copy files
List<string> file_lib = new List<string>() { "Current", "Last" };
FileInfo[] files = di.GetFiles("*", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly);
if (files.Count() > 0)
{
foreach (var file in files)
{
if (PassFileOrFolder(file.Name, file_lib))
{
File.Delete(file.FullName);
}
}
}
}
public void CopyProfileFolders()
{
// default profile location
DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(default_path);
// copy folders
List<string> folder_lib = new List<string>() { "databases", "Extension", " Storage", "Web Applications", "File System", "IndexedDB" };
DirectoryInfo[] directories = di.GetDirectories("*", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly);
if (directories.Count() > 0)
{
foreach (var folder in directories)
{
if (PassFileOrFolder(folder.Name, folder_lib))
{
DirectoryCopy(folder.FullName, site_profile_path + @"" + folder.Name, true);
}
}
}
}
private void CreateIfMissing()
{
Directory.CreateDirectory(site_profile_path);
}
private static void DirectoryCopy(string sourceDirName, string destDirName, bool copySubDirs)
{
// Get the subdirectories for the specified directory.
DirectoryInfo dir = new DirectoryInfo(sourceDirName);
DirectoryInfo[] dirs = dir.GetDirectories();
if (!dir.Exists)
{
throw new DirectoryNotFoundException(
"Source directory does not exist or could not be found: "
+ sourceDirName);
}
// If the destination directory doesn't exist, create it.
if (!Directory.Exists(destDirName))
{
Directory.CreateDirectory(destDirName);
}
// Get the files in the directory and copy them to the new location.
FileInfo[] files = dir.GetFiles();
foreach (FileInfo file in files)
{
string temppath = Path.Combine(destDirName, file.Name);
file.CopyTo(temppath, false);
}
// If copying subdirectories, copy them and their contents to new location.
if (copySubDirs)
{
foreach (DirectoryInfo subdir in dirs)
{
string temppath = Path.Combine(destDirName, subdir.Name);
DirectoryCopy(subdir.FullName, temppath, copySubDirs);
}
}
}
public bool PassFileOrFolder(string input, List<string> library)
{
foreach (string name in library)
{
if (input.Contains(name))
{
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
}
}
Please note that I have also implemented a method to clean up all profiles CleanUpOldProfiles
Review the code, make changes to directories etc. After done - make a following call:
CoreDriver something = new CoreDriver(); // creating an object
// settings
something.my_port = 50150; // multiple chrome instances - will be run on different ports
// I am currently having 4 chrome profiles ;)
something.my_name = "mynewprofile"; // full profile name will be: 'profile + my_name'. Check the code of the object.
// void
something.ConfigureProfile(); // creating new profile or updating existing one, if folder eists
something.Initialize(); // starting the browser
sorry for a long answer. Hope it helps you guys somehow :)
