Can't access websites when loading user data

[hentg089]

If you look at the following simple code:

from seleniumbase import Driver
import time

user_data_dir = r"C:\Users\markh\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data"

driver = Driver(uc=True, user_data_dir=user_data_dir)

try:
driver.get("https://www.tiktok.com")

time.sleep(10)

finally:
# Always close the browser when done
driver.quit()

Tiktok will always run whne I don't pass the user data in but when I start passing hte user data such that I'm logged in as a profile, tiktok or any other site for that matter refuse to load

[mdmintz]

You can't mix a UC Mode user_data_dir with one that was used by a regular Chrome instance. The formats are different.

Have UC Mode create a new user_data_dir during the script run, and then you can call the script again with the same one.

Here's an example of a script that goes to TikTok while setting a custom user_data_dir:

from seleniumbase import SB

with SB(uc=True, test=True, ad_block=True, user_data_dir="my_dir") as sb:
    url = "https://www.tiktok.com/@startrek?lang=en"
    sb.activate_cdp_mode(url)
    sb.sleep(2)
    print(sb.get_text('h2[data-e2e="user-bio"]'))
    for i in range(54):
        sb.cdp.scroll_down(12)
    sb.sleep(1)

[hentg089]

This didn't work. I threw print statements inside of the with block and none of them ever printed. I was able to get chrome to open with the correct account signed in but it never navigated to tiktok

[mdmintz]

There would be a stack trace if it didn't reach the print() statements inside the with block.

[hentg089]

Here's the image. You can see it was able to open chrome with the account but only the first print comes out...

[mdmintz]

You can't mix a UC Mode user_data_dir with one that was used by a regular Chrome instance. The formats are different. I can see you're setting the user_data_dir to the one from your regular Chrome browser.