Sometimes, we want to make Python Selenium interact with an existing browser session.

In this article, we’ll look at how to make Python Selenium interact with an existing browser session.

How to make Python Selenium interact with an existing browser session?

To make Python Selenium interact with an existing browser session, we open the driver and the connect to the session with the given session ID.

For instance, we write

driver = webdriver.Firefox()

url = driver.command_executor._url 
session_id = driver.session_id  

driver = webdriver.Remote(command_executor=url,desired_capabilities={})
driver.close()   
driver.session_id = session_id

driver.get("http://www.example.com")

to open the driver with

driver = webdriver.Firefox()

We get the ID of the existing session with

url = driver.command_executor._url 
session_id = driver.session_id  

Then we close the driver and connect to it with the session with

driver = webdriver.Remote(command_executor=url,desired_capabilities={})
driver.close()   
driver.session_id = session_id

Conclusion

To make Python Selenium interact with an existing browser session, we open the driver and the connect to the session with the given session ID.