Manually create and use a profile.tar.gz

Hi

I’m finding Facebook to be fickle now using

docker run -p 6080:6080 -p 9223:9223 -v $PWD/crawls/profiles:/crawls/profiles/ -it webrecorder/browsertrix-crawler create-login-profile --url "https://facebook.com/"

after a few years of it working.

Is there a way to use my existing chromium profile (which would be logged into Facebook), and .tar.gz it up and use it with browsertrix?

C:\Users\djhma\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data

On the left if my chromium profile, and right is a working profile.tar.gz. They look pretty similar!

Manually create a profile.tar.gz · Issue #731 · webrecorder/browsertrix-crawler · GitHub found a solution which I documented here.