SergeyPirogov
An error occurred while initializing Chrome with profile and logging: Message: unknown error: cannot parse internal JSON template: Line: 1, column: 1, Unexpected token.
I think there is an incompatibility issue:
Environment: Windows 10 Selenium 4.10 Python 3.10.7 webdriver-manager 4.0.1 Chrome Version 122.0.6261.112 (Build officiel) (64 bits)
I want to open Chrome browser with my profile. I tried everything ChatGPT suggested to me. I alway get the same issue:
An error occurred while initializing Chrome with profile and logging: Message: unknown error: cannot parse internal JSON template: Line: 1, column: 1, Unexpected token.
So I asked chatGPT to ignore my code and to make a new script from scratch. The prompt:
ok. Well nothing work. So let's do it another way. Ignore my code and make yourself from scratch a function that open chrome driver with selenium 4.18.1.
After correcting some minor issues, He gave me this code:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service as ChromeService
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
import os
def initialize_chrome_with_profile_and_logging():
try:
# Specify the path to the user's Chrome profile
profile_path = os.path.join(os.environ['LOCALAPPDATA'], 'Google', 'Chrome', 'User Data')
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument(f'user-data-dir={profile_path}') # Path to your chrome profile
# Enable verbose logging and specify log file path
service = ChromeService(ChromeDriverManager().install())
log_path = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'chromedriver.log')
service.start(args=['--verbose', '--log-path=' + log_path])
# Initialize the Chrome driver with options and service
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service, options=options)
return driver
except Exception as e:
print(f"An error occurred while initializing Chrome with profile and logging: {e}")
return None
Can anyone have time to reproduce this issue?
I don't know if it is my PC or is there a bug?
gauthierbuttez
I don’t think this has anything to do with compatibility and your task of using a user profile. Cuz the error is related to parse JSON.
Delete what is located along the path(json and a directory with drivers): \Users\%userprofile%\.wdm
It worked for me.
Maybe you, like me, did not close the running driver and used caching with webdriver_manage.
If you need to open a user profile, you need to look in "Commands Chronium". I solve the problem myself, it is not that simple, especially in headless mode
