RE: Make this work for your own browser instead of spinning up an artificial one.

[bjsi]

Make this work for your own browser instead of spinning up an artificial one. I want to be able to order food with my credit card.

You can pass the path to your chrome user data file to chromium like this I think eg:

 f"--user-data-dir={os.environ.get('CHROME_USER_DATA')}"

.env (eg for windows)

CHROME_USER_DATA = "c:\\Users\\<user name>\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data\\"

[rgarcia]

I've tried this here: main...rgarcia:vimGPT:feature/issue-8

But when I run it, the browser immediately closes and the script errors out:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/rafaelgarcia/code/vimGPT/main.py", line 28, in <module>
    main()
  File "/Users/rafaelgarcia/code/vimGPT/main.py", line 9, in main
    driver = Vimbot()
             ^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/rafaelgarcia/code/vimGPT/vimbot.py", line 16, in __init__
    .chromium.launch_persistent_context(
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/opt/homebrew/lib/python3.11/site-packages/playwright/sync_api/_generated.py", line 15031, in launch_persistent_context
    self._sync(
  File "/opt/homebrew/lib/python3.11/site-packages/playwright/_impl/_sync_base.py", line 109, in _sync
    return task.result()
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/opt/homebrew/lib/python3.11/site-packages/playwright/_impl/_browser_type.py", line 158, in launch_persistent_context
    from_channel(await self._channel.send("launchPersistentContext", params)),
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/opt/homebrew/lib/python3.11/site-packages/playwright/_impl/_connection.py", line 61, in send
    return await self._connection.wrap_api_call(
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/opt/homebrew/lib/python3.11/site-packages/playwright/_impl/_connection.py", line 490, in wrap_api_call
    return await cb()
           ^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/opt/homebrew/lib/python3.11/site-packages/playwright/_impl/_connection.py", line 99, in inner_send
    result = next(iter(done)).result()
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
playwright._impl._api_types.Error: Browser closed.

[ishan0102]

interesting, I'll play around with this and see if I can get it working. my playwright skills are weak, for some reason when I start it up it makes two tabs as well

[peterw]

One hacky way is to use PyAutoGui instead of Playwright, if you want to control your own personal browser.

[bjsi]

import { Builder } from "selenium-webdriver";
import chrome from "selenium-webdriver/chrome";
import "chromedriver";
import dotenv from "dotenv";

dotenv.config();

const options = new chrome.Options();

const userDataDir = process.env["CHROME_USER_DATA"];

options.addArguments(`--user-data-dir=${userDataDir}`);
options.addArguments(`--profile-directory=Profile\ 1`);

const driver = await new Builder()
    .setChromeOptions(options)
    .forBrowser("chrome")
    .build();
    

This is how I do it in TypeScript + Selenium.