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I am working on downloading HAR from Chrome for YouTube through Selenium Python Script. Code Snippet:

chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_argument("--proxy-server={0}".format(url))
chrome_options.add_argument("--enable-quic")

self.driver = webdriver.Chrome(chromedriver,chrome_options = chrome_options)

self.proxy.new_har(args['url'], options={'captureHeaders': True})
self.driver.get(args['url'])
result = json.dumps(self.proxy.har, ensure_ascii=False)

I want QUIC to be used whenever I download HAR but when I look at the packets through Wireshark Selenium driver is using TCP only. Is there a way to force Chrome Driver to use QUIC? Or Is there an alternate to BMP?

A similar thing has been asked for Firefox in this question How to capture all requests made by page in webdriver? Is there any alternative to Browsermob? and there was a solution with Selenium alone without need of any BMP. So is it possible for Chrome?

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Workaround for this problem could be: start Chrome normally (with your default profile or create another profile) and enable quic manually. Then start chromedriver with your profile loaded.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() 
options.add_argument("user-data-dir=/home/user/.config/google-chrome")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="/home/user/Downloads/chromedriver", chrome_options=options)
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