Instapy: SOLVED: username and password with selenium and chrome (proxy)

Created on 20 Feb 2018 · 5Comments · Source: timgrossmann/InstaPy

It is very simple:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8885137/selenium-using-python-enter-provide-http-proxy-password-for-firefox/35293222

goto solution "Create a zip file proxy.zip containing two files:"

and add add_extension line in instapy.py

            chrome_prefs = {
                'intl.accept_languages': 'en-US'
            }
            chrome_options.add_extension("assets/proxy.zip")

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It does work for chrome without headless but when It dosen't work with headless chrome and throws org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: failed to wait for extension background page to load: chrome-extension.

roronoa007 on 26 Jul 2018

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I will PR soon

sionking on 20 Feb 2018

I have created a PR https://github.com/timgrossmann/InstaPy/pull/1531
Check please.

ghost on 3 Mar 2018

roronoa007 on 26 Jul 2018

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@roronoa007 , That is because headless chrome does not support extensions: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=706008

You could run chrome via xvfb or use headless firefox.

maxvgi on 14 Aug 2018

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