Selenium Incognito Chrome

Introduction

Selenium is a popular automation testing tool for web applications that allows developers to test their web application across various browsers and platforms. Google Chrome offers an incognito mode that allows users to browse the internet without leaving any trace of their activity.

Using Selenium's ChromeDriver and Options class, we can open a Chrome browser in incognito mode and use it for automated testing.

Setting Up

First, we need to download the latest version of ChromeDriver from the official website and add it to our system's path. We also need to install the selenium package using pip.

pip install selenium

Code Snippet

The following code snippet shows how to open a Chrome browser in incognito mode using Selenium and perform a Google search:

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

chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--incognito")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options)

driver.get("https://www.google.com")
search_box = driver.find_element_by_name("q")
search_box.send_keys("Selenium Incognito Chrome")
search_box.submit()

driver.quit()

Explanation

1. We import the necessary modules, webdriver and Options from selenium.webdriver.chrome.
2. We create an Options object called chrome_options and add an argument --incognito to it. This argument opens the browser in incognito mode.
3. We create a new webdriver.Chrome instance and pass the chrome_options object to it.
4. We use the get() method to navigate to the Google homepage.
5. We find the search box using the find_element_by_name() method and enter the search query.
6. We submit the search using the submit() method.
7. Finally, we use the quit() method to close the browser and end the session.

Conclusion

Using Selenium's ChromeDriver and Options class, we can easily open a Chrome browser in incognito mode and use it for automated testing. This can be very useful for testing web applications that require users to login and perform certain actions while remaining anonymous.