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I want to serialize and save a selenium webdriver object so that I can use it later in another place in my code. I am trying to use a pickle to do this. If there is another way to save the state of the webdriver object so that I can open it again, that would be great (I can’t just reload the URL, since the websites I'm looking at are javascript heavy and the current page depends from what I clicked on).

I currently have such code.

import pickle
from selenium import webdriver

d = webdriver.PhantomJS()
d.get(url)
d.find_element_by_xpath(xpath).click()
p = pickle.dumps(d, pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL)
# Stuff happens here.
new_driver = pickle.loads(p)
print new_driver.page_source.encode('utf-8', 'ignore')

When I run this, I get the following error (the error occurs when I print, not earlier):

    return self.driver.page_source.encode('utf-8', 'ignore')
File "/home/eric/dev/crawler-env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 436, in page_source
    return self.execute(Command.GET_PAGE_SOURCE)['value']
File "/home/eric/dev/crawler-env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 163, in execute
    response = self.command_executor.execute(driver_command, params)
File "/home/eric/dev/crawler-env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/remote_connection.py", line 349, in execute
    return self._request(url, method=command_info[0], data=data)
File "/home/eric/dev/crawler-env/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/remote_connection.py", line 396, in _request
    response = opener.open(request)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 404, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 422, in _open
    '_open', req)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1214, in http_open
    return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1184, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)
urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused>

Can I serialize my webdriver objects? If not, what are my alternatives?

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server.py:

import pickle
import selenium.webdriver

EXECUTOR = 'http://127.0.0.1:4444/wd/hub'
FILENAME = '/tmp/pickle'

opt = selenium.webdriver.chrome.options.Options()
capabilities = opt.to_capabilities()
driver = selenium.webdriver.Remote(command_executor=EXECUTOR, desired_capabilities=capabilities)
fp = open(FILENAME, 'wb')
pickle.dump(driver, fp)

client.py:

import pickle

FILENAME = '/tmp/pickle'

driver = pickle.load(open(FILENAME, 'rb')
driver.get('http://www.google.com')
el = driver.find_element_by_id('lst-ib')
print(el)
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