I would like to activate Adblocker for Chrome with Selenium WebDriver Java.
How can it be done?
You can either use the crx file of the extension or point to a directory it's installed in. Assuming you have it installed, you'll need to add ChromeOptions
to your new ChromeDriver
:
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("load-extension=/path/to/extension");
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
capabilities.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);
ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(capabilities);
See here for more details and walkthrough.
EDIT: to see your extensions path, navigate to chrome://version
and look at 'Profile Path'. In that folder look for 'Extensions' folder. The extension ID for AdBlock Plus is cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb
. So the path/to/extension should be something like (Windows):
C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\<profile>\Extensions\cfhdojbkjhnklbpkdaibdccddilifddb