How can I count chrome tabs/windows without "extensions" in python?

[12345678]

Like seleniums needs it's own webdriver, so it can't be used

 

I want to open let's say 5 tabs and 3 windows of chrome, and have an output of those in my console 

 

There's psutil/precess libs, but I am struggling to make those work, they actually seem to get subprocesses vs windows, which do not correspond due to the way that chrome works

 

https://pastebin.com/i4bWsS8p

 

 

[manikyath]

i dont think you can, because however you slice it, you'd need to tie into chrome somehow to read the currently open tabs.

[BobVonBob]

You could effectively do "reference counting" on tabs and windows, basically your code would keep track of the tabs and windows as it opens and closes them. However, this is unreliable if a tab or window is opened/closed when your code doesn't expect it.

 

Beyond that, perhaps computer vision, but that adds a lot of complexity. Maybe one of the many chromium based browsers has more predictable process usage?

 

What is preventing you from using an extension?

[12345678]

On 12/21/2023 at 11:22 PM, BobVonBob said:

You could effectively do "reference counting" on tabs and windows, basically your code would keep track of the tabs and windows as it opens and closes them. However, this is unreliable if a tab or window is opened/closed when your code doesn't expect it.

 

Beyond that, perhaps computer vision, but that adds a lot of complexity. Maybe one of the many chromium based browsers has more predictable process usage?

It doesn't seem so

On 12/21/2023 at 11:22 PM, BobVonBob said:

What is preventing you from using an extension?

What do you mean?

[BobVonBob]

17 hours ago, 12345678 said:

What do you mean?

Why can't you use Selenium (or other similar browser automation)?

[12345678]

13 hours ago, BobVonBob said:

Why can't you use Selenium (or other similar browser automation)?

It's not up to me, also I don't know if chrome or any other random browser would behave the same

 

In a nutshell there's this issue, where Chrome to time to time opens two tabs one up to another, we can't understand why, and so I thought that to get rid of the issue I may just close all windows whenever there are two or more tabs opened, but then I see no way, outside as you said visual procesing to effectively detect it