I can not seem to find any documentation on how to make Selenium open the browser in incognito mode.
Do I have to setup a custom profile in the browser or?
I can not seem to find any documentation on how to make Selenium open the browser in incognito mode.
Do I have to setup a custom profile in the browser or?
First of all, since selenium
by default starts up a browser with a clean, brand-new profile, you are actually already browsing privately. Referring to:
But you can strictly enforce/turn on incognito/private mode anyway.
For chrome pass --incognito
command-line argument:
--incognito
Causes the browser to launch directly in incognito mode.
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')
FYI, here is what it would open up:
For firefox, set browser.privatebrowsing.autostart
to True
:
from selenium import webdriver firefox_profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile() firefox_profile.set_preference("browser.privatebrowsing.autostart", True) driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=firefox_profile)
FYI, this corresponds to the following checkbox in settings:
PowerShell
try{ # Import the Selenium DLLs Add-Type -Path "$Seleniumlib\Selenium.WebDriverBackedSelenium.dll" Add-Type -Path "$Seleniumlib\WebDriver.dll" Add-Type -Path "$Seleniumlib\WebDriver.Support.dll" } catch [Exception]{ Write-Host ("Error: {0}" -f $_.Exception.Message) exit 1 } $options = New-Object OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome.ChromeOptions $options.AddArgument("--incognito") $driver = New-Object OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome.ChromeDriver($options)
There is a really simple way to make a window open in incognito mode:
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options chrome_options = Options() # incognito window chrome_options.add_argument("--incognito")
You can also use this library for maximizing the window and more, see the documentation: https://seleniumhq.github.io/selenium/docs/api/rb/Selenium/WebDriver/Chrome/Options.html