[🐛 Bug]: [python][Chrome] Webextension - no support for archived and base64 extensionData type in Chrome?

[dornech]

Description

If I try to install a crx-file provided via archive_apth parameter to webextensions.install I get an error:
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unsupported operation: Archived and Base64 extensions are not supported

It works if I unzip the file and provide the target directory of the unzipped files as path parameter..

If I get the respective test script right, there is also no testcase for this yet.
Does it mean archiv_path and base64_path are not yet implemented in the Python bindings for Chrome?

Reproducible Code

standard call to webextension

Debugging Logs

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "F:\WinPython\WPy64-31140\python-3.11.4.amd64\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\bidi\webextension.py", line 60, in install
    result = self.conn.execute(command_builder("webExtension.install", params))
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "F:\WinPython\WPy64-31140\python-3.11.4.amd64\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\websocket_connection.py", line 78, in execute
    raise WebDriverException(error_msg)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unsupported operation: Archived and Base64 extensions are not supported

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ℹ️ Last known working version: n. a.

[selenium-ci]

@dornech, thank you for creating this issue. We will troubleshoot it as soon as we can.

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[navin772]

It's not supported in chrome yet. As of now chrome supports only installation via path.

[dornech]

OK, thanks. After a little bit of thinking I found a pretty neat workaound by unpacking into a subdirectory to the current temp folder and install form there with path. That's not to much addiitonal coding.

[iveer-git]

Could you explain how to do the same for each individual profile created using options.addArguments("user-data-dir="); options.addArguments("profile-directory=".
At the moment, I only see a solution to automate the actions of logging into the extensions section, enable developer mode and upload the necessary extensions.

[dornech]

Well, if you now the user-data-dir setting it is much more easy. I use the generated setting and have to retrieve it frist. You know the target directory. I have my relevant packed extensions on a local drive and unpack them with package zipfile to /extensionsunpacked/<extension_name>. Then this directory can be used as param for webdriver.webextension.install(path=...).

[dornech]

At the moment, I only see a solution to automate the actions of logging into the extensions section, enable developer mode and upload the necessary extensions.

That's what I do for VBA using SeleniumVBA (great package by the way) which is not yet BiDi enabled. It is not a fully automated approach but requires only one click to confrim the installation. However, you need to know the WebStore extensionID (this yvmklkmdfjkensdemj... Code)

[iveer-git]

I didn't quite understand the webdriver.webextension.install issue. I have 1,000 bots using 1,000 profiles. I use the Chrome driver in Java to run them. Could you please provide a snippet of the code on how to load the unpacked extensions into each profile?

[dornech]

I am talking about Python ... It might be the case that the implementation status is different for different language bindings as it is for browser versions.