Can a website detect when you are using selenium with chromedriver?

Question

I\'ve been testing out Selenium with Chromedriver and I noticed that some pages can detect that you\'re using Selenium even though there\'s no automation at all. Even when I

Answer 1

Try to use selenium with a specific user profile of chrome, That way you can use it as specific user and define any thing you want, When doing so it will run as a 'real' user, look at chrome process with some process explorer and you'll see the difference with the tags.

For example:

username = os.getenv("USERNAME")
userProfile = "C:\\Users\\" + username + "\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data\\Default"
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("user-data-dir={}".format(userProfile))
# add here any tag you want.
options.add_experimental_option("excludeSwitches", ["ignore-certificate-errors", "safebrowsing-disable-download-protection", "safebrowsing-disable-auto-update", "disable-client-side-phishing-detection"])
chromedriver = "C:\Python27\chromedriver\chromedriver.exe"
os.environ["webdriver.chrome.driver"] = chromedriver
browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=chromedriver, chrome_options=options)

chrome tag list here