use different path for driver

[borhanst]

Is there any option to change the driver path so that we can use a driver that is already downloaded in a different folder, not seleniumbase/driver, and also skip the download part?

[mdmintz]

SeleniumBase has a Pure CDP Mode that doesn't use Chromedriver at all.
See the examples that start with from seleniumbase import sb_cdp in the SeleniumBase/examples/cdp_mode/ folder.
In that format, the browser is launched with a command such as sb = sb_cdp.Chrome().

Eg:

• examples/cdp_mode/raw_cdp_methods.py
• examples/cdp_mode/raw_cdp_tabs.py
• examples/cdp_mode/raw_cdp_gitlab.py

[borhanst]

Thanks for your answer

[borhanst]

examples/cdp_mode/raw_cdp_tabs.py
In this example, a new tab is created first and then the URL is opened in that new tab. However, when a new tab is supposed to be opened after clicking a web element, the new tab is created but I don't get the new tab. The get_tabs function only returns a list with just one item, the first tab, which is the main URL.

[mdmintz]

Use internalize_links() to prevent link-clicking from opening a new tab:

SeleniumBase/examples/cdp_mode/raw_cdp.py

Line 11 in b227714

sb.internalize_links() # Don't open links in a new tab

CDP Mode can only see the tabs it directly opens, however, you can switch to the Selenium API by calling sb.connect() / sb.reconnect(), since Selenium can see all tabs opened, whether directly or indirectly. Eg:

SeleniumBase/examples/cdp_mode/raw_easyjet.py

Lines 27 to 32 in b227714

	sb.connect()
	sb.sleep(1)
	for window in sb.driver.window_handles:
	sb.switch_to_window(window)
	if "/buy/flights" in sb.get_current_url():
	break