Any way to get pid of browser and chromedriver

[oculunto]

Hello,
I'm trying to get the pid of the browser and the chromedriver processes after opening them with the Driver class.
I can't find a method for it, I can see in the repository that it is used at some point.
I want to be able to force close them if they crash when opening a driver (using Driver class with multiple instances that sometimes overlap).
Thanks again ;)

[mdmintz]

For getting process IDs and other system internals, there's a separate library you can use called psutil:
https://pypi.org/project/psutil/

But if you're just trying to avoid overlapping drivers in UC Mode during browser launches (when not using pytest), then you need to enable SeleniumBase thread-locking (sys.argv.append("-n")) so that the browsers don't try to use the same port at the same. I explained how to do that in the 2nd UC Mode video tutorial on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pTpBtaE7SQ&t=1386s

[oculunto]

Thanks for your answer and time.
No way to do it with Driver class instead? To delete it when .quit is invoked ? Or maybe to reuse the same one if data dir provided is the same ?
Trying to avoid rewriting my whole spaghetti code, I have it all with Driver class. I'll try to patchwork something there, thanks again !

[mdmintz]

The SB() format has a lot more functionality than the Driver() format. SB() has access to test framework methods (which include folder cleanup, etc). The Driver() format is for people who want a regular Selenium driver with some extra functionality, but it doesn't have everything. The SB() format also uses a context manager format, which means that it can have special code at the beginning and at the end (after leaving the code block).

Since the Driver() format doesn't use a context manager format, there is only the special code that runs at the beginning. People are expected to do their own cleanup, eg. driver.quit(), and any other cleanup, such as removing the proxy_zip files when no longer needed. In summary, the Driver() format gives you some extra flexibility, but at the cost of requiring you to do extra work for some things.

[oculunto]

I understand thanks ! I'll try to find a way to clean it up then.
There are more urgent matters now, seems like Cloudflare just caught up, can't pass it anymore (right this minute haha)
EDIT: Nvm it seems like it was a global outage due to maintenance.

[mdmintz]

For a moment, I thought I had a repeat situation as #2626:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pTpBtaE7SQ&t=1907s

[oculunto]

[OpsecGuy]

Maybe you wanted this?

session = Driver(...)
browser_pid = session.browser_pid
ud_driver_pid = session.service.process.pid

[oculunto]

Thank you ! Yes if that works it should be exactly what I am looking for (although the error might be coming during the execution of Driver(), so I would never get the Driver object in the first place).
I just want to get rid of both processes if the opening of the Driver fails