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I am trying to automate a Zoom login on the browser using Selenium in Python.

The manual steps are as follows:

  1. Visit https://www.zoom.us/signin

  2. Enter the email and password.

  3. Click in 'Sign in' button.

When I try to do the same steps using Selenium I am facing an issue on the step #1.

The https://www.zoom.us/signin page opens up. But then the page refreshes itself and the new URL contains two query parameters as follows: https://www.zoom.us/signin?_x_zm_rtaid=<value>&_x_zm_rhtaid=<value>. When the script then enters the correct email and password, the page throws a HTTP 401 error. This only happens during Selenium automation. If I do a manual login, https://www.zoom.us/signin page does not refresh itself, accepts the credentials and logs in successfully.

Here is what I tried. When the page refreshes and adds the query parameters and then gives the HTTP 401 error, I intervened manually and removed the query parameters and loaded the https://www.zoom.us/signin page again. This time, it does not refresh itself, accepts the credentials entered manually, logs in successfully and my Python Selenium script continues executing successfully. So I thought that I could automate this manual removal of query parameters and reloading the page. However, I am not able to detect that the page has refreshed with query parameters in Selenium. I tried the following to detect that the page refreshed:

wait.until(expected_conditions.url_contains('x_zm_rtaid'))

But the script keeps waiting for this condition before actually refreshing the page and then times out.

I would appreciate any help or direction in resolving this issue. Please let me know if any additional information is required from my side.

Thank you!

JustAnjan
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Add this to your code, right after the libraries import, and it will work:

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
#THE FOLLOWING LINE IS THE SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM
options.add_argument('--disable-blink-features=AutomationControlled')
#in executable_path put the path to your chromedriver.exe
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options, executable_path=r'C:\WebDrivers\chromedriver.exe')
driver.get("https://zoom.us")
tripleee
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