Documentation is not clear on how to use an existing profile

[s-maheshbabu]

Documentation says the following -
You can specify an existing Chrome profile that is already logged in to desired websites to help with authentication.

It then immediately moves on to the recommended approach of effectively creating a new profile for nova-act.

Can you please expand on the documentation (or here) on how to use an existing Chrome or Microsoft Edge profile?

[ebaizel]

@s-maheshbabu the suggested way is to start with a new profile and then authenticate to the sites you need to. When Nova Act starts, by default it will clone the user directory, and then delete it at the end of the run. Setting clone_user_data_dir=False will use the user directory in place, which will persist it across invocations.

If you want to use an existing Chrome user profile, you can specify that in the user_data_dir parameter.

[s-maheshbabu]

Can you include an example in the documentation or here on how to specify an existing Chrome user profile (either Window or MacOS can serve as an example)?

I guess my point in filing this issue is to understand what path exactly should be provided to user_data_dir parameter. I tried a few and couldn't get it working.

[awerchniak]

Documentation updated in 8561e01. Please note that we do not officially support Windows, so try it out on MacOS.