c# Selenium Chromedriver opens wrong url onload

Question

I'm using Selenium with chromedriver to scrape a list of data using HTML agility pack but when I try to navigate to this page, the url gets changed from url1 to url2. Therefore is there a way to stop this from happening?

 string url = "";
 Console.WriteLine("Web Crawler!");

 Console.WriteLine("Enter URL :");
 url = Console.ReadLine();
 Console.WriteLine("Entered URL :" + url);

 // selenium section
 ChromeOptions chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();
 chromeOptions.AddUserProfilePreference("profile.default_content_setting_values.geolocation", 2);
 IWebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(".", chromeOptions);
 driver.Navigate().GoToUrl(url);

It changes in navigation? you insert the first url and the second one is opened? — Guy, Feb 14 '19 at 08:09
Couldn't reproduce. Check if it happen when the url is hard-coded in the program instead of input. — Guy, Feb 14 '19 at 08:20
Oh yeah, it works when it's hard-coded. Know anyway to overcome this issue? — LordDraagon, Feb 14 '19 at 08:34
Yah it could work. Post a complete answer I'll mark it as the accepted answer. By the way thanks a lot for the help. — LordDraagon, Feb 14 '19 at 08:49

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 14 '19 at 09:07

The url might not being passed correctly from the CMD. Instead, you can read it from a CSV file

using (TextFieldParser parser = new TextFieldParser("csvFile"))
{
    parser.TextFieldType = FieldType.Delimited;
    parser.SetDelimiters(",");
    string url = string.Empty;
    while (!parser.EndOfData) 
    {
        string[] fields = parser.ReadFields();
        url = fields[0];
    }
}

c# Selenium Chromedriver opens wrong url onload

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