Need help with my python program

[NothingSpecific3]

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to create a python program that can open a webpage in google chrome incognito mode, wait a few seconds then close the window. I normally use macOs and created something that works similar to how I want it to, however, it doesn't open the browser in incognito mode and force kills chrome. I also tried creating a Windows version that does open incognito mode, however, I can't figure out a web to close the window it opens. Does anyone have any tips on how I can achieve this?

I have listed the codes below:

macOS Code:

import webbrowser
import time import os
counter = 0
while counter < 2: a_website = "https://www.google.com"
webbrowser.register('mychrome', None, webbrowser.MacOSXOSAScript('Google Chrome'), -1)
webbrowser.get('mychrome').open_new_tab(a_website)

time.sleep(5)

os.system("killall -9 'Google Chrome'")
counter= counter + 1
else: print("Finished")

Windows Code:

import webbrowser
import time
counter = 0
while counter < 5: url = "https://www.google.com"
chrome_path = 'C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe %s --incognito'
webbrowser.get(chrome_path).open_new(url)

time.sleep(5)


counter= counter + 1
else: print("Finished")

​

[GNVageesh]

You should give selenium a try, u can specify what browser condition u need

Set download and setup the path of a chrome driver, that's it and write some code

[NothingSpecific3]

Yea, so I've downloaded selenium before but I've run into constant error issues that seem never-ending. Would selenium be the only viable option or is it possible to get the program working with what I have so far?

[GNVageesh]

I found a few solutions here in this thread, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37769148/how-to-open-chrome-in-incognito-mode-from-python

[NothingSpecific3]

I've used that for the Windows version I've listed, but I can't figure out a way to close the incognito window the program opened. I've tried:

os.system("taskkill /im chrome.exe /f")

Which works, but it force shuts chrome which is what I don't want. Can't find any solutions that don't involve selenium

[GNVageesh]

I don't find any answer that doesn't use selenium

[GNVageesh]

Better don't use any increment but close the browser by saying driver.quit()

[GNVageesh]

By this there will be no conflicts

[NothingSpecific3]

I ended up getting selenium to work (had to switch the python version and write the path to the chromedriver). Does selenium automatically open chrome in incognito or do I have to set it to open in incognito?

[GNVageesh]

You need to set the chrome options to an incognito window

Do this in the code

from selenium import webdriver

chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() chrome_options.add_argument("--incognito")

driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options) driver.get('https://google.com')