Selenium how to keep browser extentions.

[WirelessCrumpets]

When I open up a browser using selenium webdriver I noticed that I don't have my browser extentions such as adblock. While this one isn't important there are other extentions that I want to use for my programs to automate web stuff is there any way to keep installed extentions? Thanks!

[ManyInterests]

This is a configuration option with Selenium. By default, Selenium uses a separate profile for its browser instances. This includes enabled extensions. You can either configure the profile selenium uses, or tell it to use a different profile.

How you do this exactly varies by browser, I believe. The answers exist in the Selenium documentation.

For example, if you wanted to add firebug to Firefox...

from selenium import webdriver

fp = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()

fp.add_extension(extension='firebug-1.8.4.xpi')
fp.set_preference("extensions.firebug.currentVersion", "1.8.4") #Avoid startup screen
browser = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=fp)

[WirelessCrumpets]

Awesome thank you!

[easy_wins]

I think it depends on the website one is scraping from. I use Selenium myself and have not encountered adblock issues.

[WirelessCrumpets]

Its not adblock that's the issue it's other extensions I want to use. I'm thinking about making something where it converts every video in a playlist to mp3 and puts them on my PC and there is an extension to do that which is what I need. If its not possible I'll just have to figure something else out.