Persistent chrome (nodriver) windows openned -- python client

[otomay]

When using:

from g4f.client import Client

client = Client()

while True:
  response = client.chat.completions.create(
      model="gpt-4o-mini",
      messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
      web_search = False
  )
  print(response.choices[0].message.content)

for some provider, a nodriver window is openned with headless = false (for some, it's not). And stays there openned using resources untill the script is finished, when I got:

successfully removed temp profile C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\g4f-nodriver\g4f-nodriver
successfully removed temp profile C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\g4f-nodriver\g4f-nodriver
successfully removed temp profile C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\g4f-nodriver\g4f-nodriver
successfully removed temp profile C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\g4f-nodriver\g4f-nodriver
successfully removed temp profile C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\g4f-nodriver\g4f-nodriver
successfully removed temp profile C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\g4f-nodriver\g4f-nodriver

It doesn't use the same chrome window, it keeps oppening up new ones.
am I doing something wrong?

[hlohaus]

Only the Cloudflare provider need nodriver to do work.
But it should cache the result in auth_.json file.
I don't know why it's not working for you.
Maybe add Cloudflare to your provider ignore list.

[otomay]

Hey, thanks!

How can I do this? I searched for "ignore" in the client api docs, but didn't found anything.

[otomay]

I was looking at https://github.com/xtekky/gpt4free/blob/main/docs/providers-and-models.md

I'm using gpt-4o-mini on my script. I think cloudflare is not an provider option to it, if we're talking about https://playground.ai.cloudflare.com

Is there a way to identify which provider was used on the generation?

[otomay]

I learned how to see the provider

Just print(response) and it's possible to see in the console.
So here is the results of my tests:

It's random. Example: sometimes the PollinationsAI opens a nodriver windows (headless = false) and sometimes don't. Same for DDG, and I supose for almost all providers.

So, the reason for me to have a lot of chrome windows (headless = false) in my desktop it's bc the providers require it in some point and each one use 1 instance of it. They keep using only one window like @hlohaus said, but as each one needs one nodriver isntance, after sometime I get lots of chrome windows openned.

[hlohaus]

We do not employ headless browser instances due to their incompatibility with our operational requirements. Authentication is managed through non-headless browser instances; following successful authentication, the request is terminated, and the browser instances are closed or the web server is shut down. Alternatively, the lightweight GPT4Free alternative may be more appropriate. To uninstall nodriver, please execute: pip uninstall nodriver.

@otomay

[otomay]

I may be wrong, but it's possible that I'm experiencing this bc my default profile for chrome opens up 3 tabs.

I recall that I had trouble closing selenium with driver.close(), cuz this only closes the current tab and not the entire browser. So I had to do a loop to close all tabs, or use the .quit() method.

Anyways, thanks for helping!

[hlohaus]

@otomay, I have added a lock file for nodriver in the new version to ensure that only one browser instance starts at a time. Additionally, I have added a finally block to stop the browser in all nodriver calls within g4f. This should help prevent any issues with multiple browser instances running simultaneously.

[otomay]

Thanks @hlohaus! I can confirm it fixed the behavior!