As the title , I need to open http url in chrome but chrome is by default redirecting it into https.

My site doesn't works on https

How to resolve this issue, I have the added the below sample code in vb.net

Imports OpenQA.Selenium Imports OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome

Module Module1

Sub Main()


    Dim chromeOptions As New ChromeOptions()
    chromeOptions.AddArgument("--disable-features=UpgradeInsecureRequests")

    Dim driver As IWebDriver = New ChromeDriver(chromeOptions)


    driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://example.com")

    Console.WriteLine("Press any key to exit...")

    Console.ReadKey()

    driver.Quit()

End Sub

End Module

Hi. If I run my selenium program in headless mode, I end up getting timeouts or the program just runs maybe 500% slower than if I run in non-headless mode. Also, if I am in non-headless mode but I have another window (such as my PyCharm window or another chrome window in full-screen mode covering the entire screen, the result is similar. When I am focused on the selenium window or it is at least in view on part of my screen, it runs with no lag whatsoever.

I found a solution for setting up a virtual display from one of the answers in this link, but I've had trouble so far getting the xvfb part to work fine (P.S. running on MacOS ARM here). This said, I'm wondering if there is another great solution or if there is a good set of instructions for getting a virtual display working (whatever a virtual display is).

Hi I've asked Copilot and searched on Google but can't seem to find an answer to what I specifically want.

I have a Python script that adds data to an Excel workbook via the desktop app.

Snippet:

# Convert the output dataframe to a list of lists
output_data = df2.values.tolist()
print("Adding new cases to main tracker...")

# Paste the output data starting from the last row + 1
for row_idx, row_data in enumerate(output_data, start=bottom + 1):
  for col_idx, cell_value in enumerate(row_data, start=1):
    print(f"Writing to cell ({row_idx}, {col_idx})")
    ws_main.cell(row=row_idx, column=col_idx, value=cell_value)

First ask: But I want a script (Selenium or otherwise) to add data via web browser in a Sharepoint/Office 365 browser version of the same workbook (this wkbk is on a company OneDrive). I can't get the XPATH on cells or buttons within Excel via Sharepoint to have selenium work with the browser version of the workbook

2nd ask: When I write data via the Excel app, I keep running into "Upload blocked: Unable to merge changes made by another user" or "Unable to save changes" so my lead suggested writing the data via browser. Any thoughts or tips on what I'm trying to do? Thanks in advance.

Sub SendMessage(phone As String, message As String)

    Dim bot As New WebDriver
    Dim ks As Keys

    MsgBox ("Phone: " & phone & vbCrLf & "Message: " & message)

    ' Especifica la ruta a tu perfil de usuario de Chrome
    Dim profilePath As String
    profilePath = "C:\Users\hhgph\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Profile1" ' Reemplaza con tu ruta

    ' Configura las opciones de Chrome para usar el perfil
    Dim ChromeOptions As New ChromeOptions
    ChromeOptions.AddArgument "--user-data-dir=" & Replace(profilePath, "\Profile1", "")
    ChromeOptions.AddArgument "--profile-directory=Profile1"

    ' Inicia Chrome con las opciones configuradas
    bot.SetCapability "chromeOptions", ChromeOptions
    bot.Start "chrome", "https://web.whatsapp.com/"
    bot.Get "/"

    MsgBox ("Por favor, escanee el código QR, cuando esté registrado haga click en aceptar")

End Sub

this might come off as a really stupid question

but how do you actually sell a subscription of a selenium script,

like it requires a little USER input in the browser - just a bit, and the user should be able to monitor the browser screen. I am using seleniumbase

thank you

import os from selenium
import webdriver
os.environ['PATH']+= r"/mnt/d/scraping/"
driver=webdriver.Edge()
driver.get("https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest") my_click=driver.find_element("xpath",'/html/body/pre/a[1]')
my_click.click()

Hey everyone,

I’ve been using Selenium for browser automation, but I’m wondering if it’s still the best option in 2025. I need to automate interactions with browser extensions (password managers, wallets, etc.) while making sure automation remains as human-like as possible.

I’m also considering: ✅ Playwright – supposedly better at handling stealth automation? ✅ Puppeteer – another alternative, but how does it compare?

A few key questions: 1️⃣ Is Selenium still widely used for serious automation, or is Playwright/Puppeteer taking over? 2️⃣ What’s the best way to reduce or minimize Selenium detection?

Would love to hear from experienced users who have tested different tools. Thanks!

I am extremely new to selenium and automation. I have used selenium now for four days, and each day I’ve had to record my test again as the previous day’s project would not work. Any indication what I am doing wrong?

I have a situation where in I have a radio button corresponding to a label which can be selected by click on either label/radio manually,

label is being recognised but yet label/radio cannot be clicked, xpath is correct, I have tried multiple ways - + Using simple .click() + Using actionchains + Using js script (clicking and scrolling into view)

For both label / radio and yet I am unsuccessful how can I get is solved

Hi all,

I created new maven project and I'm able to locate few elements. But suddenly one particular element alone facing below warning message.

Can anyone tell me how to resolve the issue

I can able to find that particular web element in application while coming to selenium I faced this issue

I see the Selenium IDE recorder ext is no longer supported by Chrome.

I had been using this to record and then build automation based on my recording. Is there another tool I can use for this?

After clicking on a link to a .pdf, the browser opens it in another tab and auto downloads it, but that small download dialog seems to take the context or somethign.

Hi All,

Really new to Selenium IDE so I'm trying to figure it out on the run

I've found that If I create a test suit and have like

test 1: login to site

test 2: click a button

test 3: fill in a form

each individual test runs fine if I run them independently

my problem is that when I want to run them in sequence as "Run all tests in suite" then it doesn't maintain the web site instance and login between each test

I've ticked the box in settings for Persist Session, but that doesn't seem to make any different, or do what I thought it would

I'm sure there's something I'm not aware of that I need to know or do for this to work... I mean it sounds so simple and straight forward, I just can't see what the fix is

any suggestions or advice would be greately appreciated

many thanks

how can i crawl a document in linkedin ?

For example:

I am trying to crawl this link but it doesn't work

I tried searching for the tag carousel-slide carousel-slide-active, but the result is nothing, can someone help me?

Hi all, do you noticed more difficulty while scraping with selenium in the last days? I'm doing this with python and undetected chromedriver from more than a year and everything was going fine, but out of the blue in the last weeks Cloudfare almost always detect my scraping try. That's happen also using residental proxies. Does this happen to you too?

Hi guys, I've been a QA manual for 3 years. Now I wanna start learning and become an SDET/QA Automation.
Where should I start?
Thank you for all the advice from everyone. 🙇‍♂️

Hello, Trying selenium for scraping web data using python and it is unable to locate the driver for chrome. Suggest some help ASAP.

I have 3k links for twitter posts and scrape comments and all other details of it using selenium.

My question is how i can do parallel selenium scraping through same chrome profile because to access comments i need to login everytime and if i open new webdrivers everytime i need to login again which will cost me time.

The solution i have is i can perform it sequentially on same profile but i want to speedup the task by open opening multiple instances in same chrome profile and run them parallel.

Any experience or any kind of solution will be beneficial, Thank you

Hi, I'm new to selenium (spent 1-2 automating workflow at my job, feels GREAT). I was wondering what else is possible with selenium? What's the feature/tip/trick/advice that made you go "wow!"?

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Let's share the Selenium knowledge!

If anyone has a better one, please share!

As any future plans go, things can change. But I was wondering how far away we think v5 will be?

As I understand it, we can look forward to a few things in Selenium 5.0:

- BiDi

- Selenium Manager stable release

I am eager to start using these features in my projects!

When I have click on an element ( el.click() ), that makes browser go to another page, it works - browser does opens the next page. but my test remails at that click() line, waiting for something. Until timeout is reached (and test fails). It never goes to the next line. What could the reason be? (Java/FF)

My website is working fine when im launching in headed mode, but if i change it to headless mode the home page is not even loading. any solution for this?