selenium uses "fake" browsers that Google sign-in rejects ("This browser app is not secure"), mechanize lacks a GUI, webbrowser can't click. Is there any package that can open the "usual" browser that won't be rejected by third-party services?
For reference, here's what happens if I try to supply the "usual" Firefox executable path to selenium:
from selenium import webdriver
exepath = r"C:\Program Files\Firefox Developer Edition\firefox.exe"
driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=exepath)
The browser does open, but selenium fails to connect:
File "D:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\webdriver.py", line 164, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "D:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 98, in start
self.assert_process_still_running()
File "D:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 111, in assert_process_still_running
% (self.path, return_code)
WebDriverException: Service C:\Program Files\Firefox Developer Edition\firefox.exe unexpectedly exited.
Status code was: 0
I searched for this exact error - all solutions point back to using the "WebDriver" (i.e. "fake browser"). Tried also with Chrome - same deal, except it first waits 30 secs before throwing the error.
Note: geckodriver and ChromeDriver are both WebDrivers - the "fake" browsers.
Note 2: this is the message I'm getting: (and link to Learn more)
This is how WebDriver's URL appears:
