How to Execute your script on existing(Open Browser) Browser for Debugging purpose

Below are the few steps to following for execute your scripts on open chrome browser.

1)   Find Where your chrome.exe file in your local desktop/laptop

Ex: C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application

2)   Set the path in environment variable

You should open your Chrome Browser in debug mode for that you should follow the below steps

1)   Open the Command Prompt and enter below command

2)   chrome.exe -remote-debugging-port=9009 --user-data-dir=C:\ChromeProfile\Debug

-remote-debugging-port=9009

9009 is the port number and assign it to -remote-debugging-port

It can be any number.

C:\ChromeProfile\Debug is Browser profile directory and assign it to

--user-data-dir, it can give any directory name and you can choose any drive.

Google Chrome browser will get launch once you will run the above command in command line.

Enter the URL on opened browser and navigate from where ever you want to execute your script.

Ex: You want to click on Continue button in FLIGHT FINDER Page for that what you need to do is enter URL and navigate to that page

URL: http://newtours.demoaut.com

Enter User Name and Password then click on Sign-In button

Click on CONTINUE button

Below is the script for click on Continue button:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

chromePath="C:\\BrowserDrivers\\chromedriver.exe"
chrome_opt=Options()
chrome_opt.debugger_address="LocalHost:9009"
driver=webdriver.Chrome(chromePath,options=chrome_opt)
driver.find_element_by_name("findFlights").click()

 No need to specify the URL in script because we are manually navigating to the page.

Note : only on Google Chrome Browser and Browser version should be 66 and above.