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Writing a simple selenium script to click on links on aa website. The script is written like so:
from selenium import webdriver
import time
chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-gpu")
browser = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options)
try:
browser.get("https://www.google.com")
print("Page title was '{}'".format(browser.title))
finally:
browser.quit()
Now the issue is the actual chrome driver itself I get the following exception
selenium.common.exceptions.SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 94
Current browser version is 93.0.4577.82 with binary path /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome
I went to the chromedriver downloads site. I still get the same error though.
Compatibility issue.
Your chrome driver version is 94.0.4606.41 and this driver version supports Chrome browser 94
Please do anyone of the following.
Update the chrome browser version to 94
Degrade the driver version to 93 (Download 93 version from here https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=93.0.4577.63/)
This error occurred because you have different versions of Google Chrome and driver. It is better to update the driver, rather than install the old version of Google, since in the future it will be constantly updated (why do you want to use outdated technologies?).
I usually use :
ChromeDriverManager
because at any time without going to the web driver website you can simply download the driver with the following command:
driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())
Further, using the path given by this command, you can use the freshly installed version:
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r"C:\path_to_chrome_driver_executable\chromedriver.exe")
This made me go crazy I solved it like this we are using selenium npm module.
Run the code below and it will tell you what executable path you are using.
const { Builder, By, Key, util } = require("selenium-webdriver");
const chrome = require("selenium-webdriver/chrome");
console.log(chrome.getDefaultService().executable_);
I had installed chromedriver globally
npm i chromedriver -g
The executable path showed me it was using this and an older version.
Uninstalled this.
npm uninstall chromedriver -g
Now it started using the version I dowloaded and added to me PATH.
Download the latest chromedriver from here.
https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads
Add it to your path in the .zshrc file.
export PATH=/Users/dave/SeleniumWebdrivers:$PATH
Drag your downloaded drivers into this folder.
If you're using Mac run
brew reinstall chromedriver
I think there is another way to solve this problem. Uninstall the protarctor and reinstall it and see magic.
npm uninstall protractor
npm install protractor
Session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports
I am currently new to robot framework.I am currently using latest window version of chrome and chromedriver which is 80 but when i try to run the test it gives the message "SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 81" in pycharm but currently beta version of 81 is only available. I have tried uninstalling everthing and reinstalling it again but nothing works can anyone help me with this.Thank you!
Screenshots below:
I solved these kinds of problems using the webdrive manager.
You can automatically use the correct chromedriver by using the webdrive-manager.
Install the webdrive-manager:
pip install webdriver-manager
Then use the driver in python as follows
from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())
This answer is taken from https://stackoverflow.com/a/52878725
Do below steps :
Check the version of chrome browser.
download chromedriver of same version from https://sites.google.com/chromium.org/driver/home
Give correct path in the pycharm and run the code.
I got the same message on MacOS:
"selenium.common.exceptions.SessionNotCreatedException: Message:
session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome
version 81"
Then I run this command, it's gone:
# Homebrew 3
brew upgrade chromedriver
# Homebrew < 3
brew cask upgrade chromedriver
This error message...
SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 81
...implies that the ChromeDriver v81 was unable to initiate/spawn a new Browsing Context i.e. Chrome Browser where is version is other then 81.0.
Your main issue is the incompatibility between the version of the binaries you are using as follows:
You mentioned about using chromedriver=80 and chrome=80 but somehow while your program execution ChromeDriver v 81.0 is used.
So, it's quite evident your have chromedriver=81.0 present within your system and is present within the system PATH variable which gets invoked while you:
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
Solution
There are two solutions:
Either you upgrade chrome to Chrome Version 81.0 level. (as per ChromeDriver v81.0 release notes)
Or you can override the default chromedriver v81.0 binary location with chromedriver v80.0 binary location as follows:
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\path\to\chromedriver.exe')
driver.get('http://google.com/')
Reference
You can find a couple of relevant discussions in:
How to work with a specific version of ChromeDriver while Chrome Browser gets updated automatically through Python selenium
selenium.common.exceptions.SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 80
Ubuntu: selenium.common.exceptions: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 79
First of all check latest Chrome version (This is your browser Chrome version) link
Download same version of Chrome Web Driver from this link
Do not download latest Chrome Web Driver if it does not match your Chrome Browser version.
Note: When I write this message, latest Chrome Browser version is 84 but latest Chrome Driver version is 85. I am using Chrome Driver version 84 so that Chrome Driver and Chrome Browser versions are the same.
Go to your Chrome settings -> About Chrome -> Check version
and download chromedriver from Below according to your Chrome version
https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads
this works for me
brew cask upgrade chromedriver
Above is deprecated on MacOs, use:
brew install chromedriver (if not already installed)
brew upgrade chromedriver
Chrome version is updating everyday so you need use exact chromedriver version according chrome version
https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads in this website you can download chromedrivers
The solution (at least on OSX) is:
Download the latest chromedriver file.
Unzip the downloaded file.
Search the location of the old chromedriver file on your computer and replace it with the new chromedriver file.
Right-click the chromedriver file and click open. Do not double click as Mac will not open it the proper way.
Once the file runs for the first time, you can close it and the update will have taken place.
Your Chrome Driver version needs to match your Chrome Browser version
Get you Chrome Browser version, by typing chrome://version
enter image description here
Download Chrome Driver version that matches you Chrome Browser version, form this website
https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads
If you are getting this error when you run stuffs on automated cluster and you are downloading the stable version of the google chrome every time then you can use the below shell script to download the compatible version of the chrome driver dynamically every time even if the stable version of the chrome gets updated.
%sh
#downloading compatible chrome driver version
#getting the current chrome browser version
**chromeVersion=$(google-chrome --product-version)**
#getting the major version value from the full version
**chromeMajorVersion=${chromeVersion%%.*}**
# setting the base url for getting the release url for the chrome driver
**baseDriverLatestReleaseURL=https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE_**
#creating the latest release driver url based on the major version of the chrome
**latestDriverReleaseURL=$baseDriverLatestReleaseURL$chromeMajorVersion**
**echo $latestDriverReleaseURL**
#file name of the file that gets downloaded which would contain the full version of the chrome driver to download
**latestDriverVersionFileName="LATEST_RELEASE_"$chromeMajorVersion**
#downloading the file that would contain the full release version compatible with the major release of the chrome browser version
**wget $latestDriverReleaseURL**
#reading the file to get the version of the chrome driver that we should download
**latestFullDriverVersion=$(cat $latestDriverVersionFileName)**
**echo $latestFullDriverVersion**
#creating the final URL by passing the compatible version of the chrome driver that we should download
**finalURL="https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/"$latestFullDriverVersion"/chromedriver_linux64.zip"**
**echo $finalURL**
**wget $finalURL**
I was able to get the compatible version of chrome browser and chrome driver using the above approach when running scheduled job on the databricks environment and it worked like a charm without any issues.
Hope it helps others in one way or other.
With Laravel (PHP) you can fix this with:
php artisan dusk:install
It will download and install the new driver.
Documentation: https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/dusk#installation
The case when your Chrome is in the middle of its update also causes this exception. In my case chromedriver was already updated, while the chrome itself was v81 instead of v83.
You can also download the correct chromedriver version from:
https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads
https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=81.0.4044.138/
I too had a similar problem. And I've got a solution .. Download the matching chromedriver, and place the chromedriver under the /usr/local/bin path. It works.
The way I solved this issue was quite simple, I checked my chrome version and I had an older chromedriver in my PATH variable, so I downloaded the chromedriver version that matched my browser and replaced the old one in the PATH, so when the webdriver module looked for a chromedriver in my PATH, it would find the matching version
I had already been running a local server at the same port the session wanted to run on, and this caused the error. Shutting down that local server fixed this for me.
You need to install webdriver manager. Make sure webdriver manager it is also updated.
If you use npm:
npm install -g webdriver-manager
webdriver-manager update
If you're getting this error in Visual Studio 2019 and using Selenium.WebDriver.ChromeDriver by jsakamoto, check the version you're referencing in the packages.config file.
<package id="Selenium.WebDriver.ChromeDriver" version="89.0.4389.2300" targetFramework="net45" />
Update your NuGet package to the appropriate version and resolve the issue.
I resolved this issue by simply running Firefox (geckodriver) instead of Chrome:
rsDriver(browser = "firefox")
I got this error after a recent chrome upgrade, and also I recently updated my Mac to Big Sur. Seems cask is not part of brew command, need to use it separately.
brew install --cask chromedriver
You can handle this exception
from selenium.common.exceptions import SessionNotCreatedException
Add this function
def update_chrome():
try:
print("Updating chrome driver")
download_chrome = "wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb"
unpack_chrome = "sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb"
install_chrome = "sudo apt-get -f install"
file_path = os.path.join(os.environ['HOME'], "google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb")
if os.path.isfile(file_path):
print("{} found\nremoving {}".format(file_path, file_path))
os.remove(file_path)
else:
print("File does not exist {}".format(file_path))
old_chrome_ver = os.popen("/usr/bin/google-chrome --version").read().strip('Google Chrome ').strip().split(".")[0]
print("Current Chrome version: {}".format(old_chrome_ver))
os.system(command=download_chrome)
sleep(2)
os.system(command=unpack_chrome)
sleep(5)
os.system(command=install_chrome)
crnt_chrome_ver = os.popen("/usr/bin/google-chrome --version").read().strip('Google Chrome ').strip().split(".")[0]
print("Current Chrome version: {}".format(crnt_chrome_ver))
if crnt_chrome_ver == old_chrome_ver:
print("Chrome version is same as before")
elif crnt_chrome_ver > old_chrome_ver:
print("Chrome version is updated from {} to {}".format(old_chrome_ver, crnt_chrome_ver))
return True
except Exception as e:
print("Error while updating chrome: {}".format(e))
return False
then call this function
try:
# Your code here
except SessionNotCreatedException as snce:
print("Session not created: {}".format(snce))
chrome_update_result = False
if recurrences == 0:
chrome_update_result = update_chrome()
if chrome_update_result:
recurrences += 1
print("Chrome updated successfully")
erisapedia_bot(state, download_dir)
return True
else:
print("Chrome update failed")
return False
What worked for me is this command:
pip install chromedriver-binary==your_chrome_version
This will uninstall the current chrome-driver that you have installed and will install a chrome-driver that matches your chrome version.
The solution is:-
Check out the chrome version of your chrome.From chrome://settings/help
Check out which version of ChromeDriver is compatible with your current
chrome version from here
download the compatible one and replace the existing ChromeDriver with
a new ChromeDriver.
Now run the code
It didn't feel like folks were answering the issue here which is: being on the latest version of beta Chrome/Chromium and not seeing the matching chromedriver version
For example, currently as of writing this, Chromium for Mac is Version 86.0.4190.0 (Developer Build) (64-bit) however the latest chromedriver versions listed are
Current stable release: ChromeDriver 83.0.4103.39
Current beta release: ChromeDriver 84.0.4147.30
If you go to https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads/version-selection, they provide some pointers on getting a compatible version. One of the last lines near the end mentions trying the ChromeDriver Canary build which leads to how to get it from Chromium browser snapshots.
Of course this goes without saying that using the latest experimental version is likely to have bugs
I faced this problem even after using webdriver manager. I was able to resolve the issue after specifying the exact version of chromedriver that I needed in the webddriver manager.
I was using chrome version 84 and the webdriver manager was installing the latest version of chromedriver, which was 85.0.4183.38.
I made webdriver manager to open the chromedriver version 84.0.4147.30 by writing the following command.
from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager(84.0.4147.30).install())
Referring to #dylanvanw answer. You might still out of luck. I found that you might have a different path that you have installed Python. In my case, I have to move Chromedriver.exe from the cache path (C:\Users\Poom.wdm\drivers\chromedriver\win32\84.0.4147.30) to C:\Python38 then it work!
Steps I took to make it work
Check your current Chrome version e.g. 81
Goto tools/nuget package manager
Select selenium chrome driver
upgrade/downgrade to the same Chrome-version you have.
Restarting the application should work.
I found a workaround to download latest version of ChromeDriver via WebDriverManager
You could try something like,
WebDriver driver = null ;
boolean oldVersion = true;
String chromeVersion = "";
try {
try{
FileReader reader = new FileReader("chromeVersion.txt") ;
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(reader) ;
String line;
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null){
chromeVersion = line.trim();
}
reader.close();
} catch (IOException e ) {}
WebDriverManager.chromedriver().version(chromeVersion).setup();
driver = new ChromeDriver() ;
} catch (Exception e) {
oldVersion = false;
String err = e.getMessage() ;
chromeVersion = err.split("version is")[1].split("with binary path")[0].trim();
try{
FileWriter writer = new FileWriter("chromeVersion.txt", true) ;
writer.write(chromeVersion) ;
writer.close();
} catch (IOException er ) {}
}
if (!oldVersion){
WebDriverManager.chromedriver().version(chromeVersion).setup();
driver = new ChromeDriver() ;
}
driver.get("https://www.google.com") ;
I got this error when the chrome driver was not closed properly. Eg, if I try to find something and click it and it doesn't exist, the driver throws an exception and the thread ended there ( I did not close the driver ).
So, when I ran the same method again later where I had to reinitialize the driver, the driver didn't initialize and it threw the exception.
My solve was simply to wrap the selenium tasks in a try catch and close the driver properly
I am currently new to robot framework.I am currently using latest window version of chrome and chromedriver which is 80 but when i try to run the test it gives the message "SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 81" in pycharm but currently beta version of 81 is only available. I have tried uninstalling everthing and reinstalling it again but nothing works can anyone help me with this.Thank you!
Screenshots below:
I solved these kinds of problems using the webdrive manager.
You can automatically use the correct chromedriver by using the webdrive-manager.
Install the webdrive-manager:
pip install webdriver-manager
Then use the driver in python as follows
from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())
This answer is taken from https://stackoverflow.com/a/52878725
Do below steps :
Check the version of chrome browser.
download chromedriver of same version from https://sites.google.com/chromium.org/driver/home
Give correct path in the pycharm and run the code.
I got the same message on MacOS:
"selenium.common.exceptions.SessionNotCreatedException: Message:
session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome
version 81"
Then I run this command, it's gone:
# Homebrew 3
brew upgrade chromedriver
# Homebrew < 3
brew cask upgrade chromedriver
This error message...
SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 81
...implies that the ChromeDriver v81 was unable to initiate/spawn a new Browsing Context i.e. Chrome Browser where is version is other then 81.0.
Your main issue is the incompatibility between the version of the binaries you are using as follows:
You mentioned about using chromedriver=80 and chrome=80 but somehow while your program execution ChromeDriver v 81.0 is used.
So, it's quite evident your have chromedriver=81.0 present within your system and is present within the system PATH variable which gets invoked while you:
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
Solution
There are two solutions:
Either you upgrade chrome to Chrome Version 81.0 level. (as per ChromeDriver v81.0 release notes)
Or you can override the default chromedriver v81.0 binary location with chromedriver v80.0 binary location as follows:
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\path\to\chromedriver.exe')
driver.get('http://google.com/')
Reference
You can find a couple of relevant discussions in:
How to work with a specific version of ChromeDriver while Chrome Browser gets updated automatically through Python selenium
selenium.common.exceptions.SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 80
Ubuntu: selenium.common.exceptions: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 79
First of all check latest Chrome version (This is your browser Chrome version) link
Download same version of Chrome Web Driver from this link
Do not download latest Chrome Web Driver if it does not match your Chrome Browser version.
Note: When I write this message, latest Chrome Browser version is 84 but latest Chrome Driver version is 85. I am using Chrome Driver version 84 so that Chrome Driver and Chrome Browser versions are the same.
Go to your Chrome settings -> About Chrome -> Check version
and download chromedriver from Below according to your Chrome version
https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads
this works for me
brew cask upgrade chromedriver
Above is deprecated on MacOs, use:
brew install chromedriver (if not already installed)
brew upgrade chromedriver
Chrome version is updating everyday so you need use exact chromedriver version according chrome version
https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads in this website you can download chromedrivers
The solution (at least on OSX) is:
Download the latest chromedriver file.
Unzip the downloaded file.
Search the location of the old chromedriver file on your computer and replace it with the new chromedriver file.
Right-click the chromedriver file and click open. Do not double click as Mac will not open it the proper way.
Once the file runs for the first time, you can close it and the update will have taken place.
Your Chrome Driver version needs to match your Chrome Browser version
Get you Chrome Browser version, by typing chrome://version
enter image description here
Download Chrome Driver version that matches you Chrome Browser version, form this website
https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads
If you are getting this error when you run stuffs on automated cluster and you are downloading the stable version of the google chrome every time then you can use the below shell script to download the compatible version of the chrome driver dynamically every time even if the stable version of the chrome gets updated.
%sh
#downloading compatible chrome driver version
#getting the current chrome browser version
**chromeVersion=$(google-chrome --product-version)**
#getting the major version value from the full version
**chromeMajorVersion=${chromeVersion%%.*}**
# setting the base url for getting the release url for the chrome driver
**baseDriverLatestReleaseURL=https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE_**
#creating the latest release driver url based on the major version of the chrome
**latestDriverReleaseURL=$baseDriverLatestReleaseURL$chromeMajorVersion**
**echo $latestDriverReleaseURL**
#file name of the file that gets downloaded which would contain the full version of the chrome driver to download
**latestDriverVersionFileName="LATEST_RELEASE_"$chromeMajorVersion**
#downloading the file that would contain the full release version compatible with the major release of the chrome browser version
**wget $latestDriverReleaseURL**
#reading the file to get the version of the chrome driver that we should download
**latestFullDriverVersion=$(cat $latestDriverVersionFileName)**
**echo $latestFullDriverVersion**
#creating the final URL by passing the compatible version of the chrome driver that we should download
**finalURL="https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/"$latestFullDriverVersion"/chromedriver_linux64.zip"**
**echo $finalURL**
**wget $finalURL**
I was able to get the compatible version of chrome browser and chrome driver using the above approach when running scheduled job on the databricks environment and it worked like a charm without any issues.
Hope it helps others in one way or other.
With Laravel (PHP) you can fix this with:
php artisan dusk:install
It will download and install the new driver.
Documentation: https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/dusk#installation
The case when your Chrome is in the middle of its update also causes this exception. In my case chromedriver was already updated, while the chrome itself was v81 instead of v83.
You can also download the correct chromedriver version from:
https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads
https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=81.0.4044.138/
I too had a similar problem. And I've got a solution .. Download the matching chromedriver, and place the chromedriver under the /usr/local/bin path. It works.
The way I solved this issue was quite simple, I checked my chrome version and I had an older chromedriver in my PATH variable, so I downloaded the chromedriver version that matched my browser and replaced the old one in the PATH, so when the webdriver module looked for a chromedriver in my PATH, it would find the matching version
I had already been running a local server at the same port the session wanted to run on, and this caused the error. Shutting down that local server fixed this for me.
You need to install webdriver manager. Make sure webdriver manager it is also updated.
If you use npm:
npm install -g webdriver-manager
webdriver-manager update
If you're getting this error in Visual Studio 2019 and using Selenium.WebDriver.ChromeDriver by jsakamoto, check the version you're referencing in the packages.config file.
<package id="Selenium.WebDriver.ChromeDriver" version="89.0.4389.2300" targetFramework="net45" />
Update your NuGet package to the appropriate version and resolve the issue.
I resolved this issue by simply running Firefox (geckodriver) instead of Chrome:
rsDriver(browser = "firefox")
I got this error after a recent chrome upgrade, and also I recently updated my Mac to Big Sur. Seems cask is not part of brew command, need to use it separately.
brew install --cask chromedriver
You can handle this exception
from selenium.common.exceptions import SessionNotCreatedException
Add this function
def update_chrome():
try:
print("Updating chrome driver")
download_chrome = "wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb"
unpack_chrome = "sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb"
install_chrome = "sudo apt-get -f install"
file_path = os.path.join(os.environ['HOME'], "google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb")
if os.path.isfile(file_path):
print("{} found\nremoving {}".format(file_path, file_path))
os.remove(file_path)
else:
print("File does not exist {}".format(file_path))
old_chrome_ver = os.popen("/usr/bin/google-chrome --version").read().strip('Google Chrome ').strip().split(".")[0]
print("Current Chrome version: {}".format(old_chrome_ver))
os.system(command=download_chrome)
sleep(2)
os.system(command=unpack_chrome)
sleep(5)
os.system(command=install_chrome)
crnt_chrome_ver = os.popen("/usr/bin/google-chrome --version").read().strip('Google Chrome ').strip().split(".")[0]
print("Current Chrome version: {}".format(crnt_chrome_ver))
if crnt_chrome_ver == old_chrome_ver:
print("Chrome version is same as before")
elif crnt_chrome_ver > old_chrome_ver:
print("Chrome version is updated from {} to {}".format(old_chrome_ver, crnt_chrome_ver))
return True
except Exception as e:
print("Error while updating chrome: {}".format(e))
return False
then call this function
try:
# Your code here
except SessionNotCreatedException as snce:
print("Session not created: {}".format(snce))
chrome_update_result = False
if recurrences == 0:
chrome_update_result = update_chrome()
if chrome_update_result:
recurrences += 1
print("Chrome updated successfully")
erisapedia_bot(state, download_dir)
return True
else:
print("Chrome update failed")
return False
What worked for me is this command:
pip install chromedriver-binary==your_chrome_version
This will uninstall the current chrome-driver that you have installed and will install a chrome-driver that matches your chrome version.
The solution is:-
Check out the chrome version of your chrome.From chrome://settings/help
Check out which version of ChromeDriver is compatible with your current
chrome version from here
download the compatible one and replace the existing ChromeDriver with
a new ChromeDriver.
Now run the code
It didn't feel like folks were answering the issue here which is: being on the latest version of beta Chrome/Chromium and not seeing the matching chromedriver version
For example, currently as of writing this, Chromium for Mac is Version 86.0.4190.0 (Developer Build) (64-bit) however the latest chromedriver versions listed are
Current stable release: ChromeDriver 83.0.4103.39
Current beta release: ChromeDriver 84.0.4147.30
If you go to https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads/version-selection, they provide some pointers on getting a compatible version. One of the last lines near the end mentions trying the ChromeDriver Canary build which leads to how to get it from Chromium browser snapshots.
Of course this goes without saying that using the latest experimental version is likely to have bugs
I faced this problem even after using webdriver manager. I was able to resolve the issue after specifying the exact version of chromedriver that I needed in the webddriver manager.
I was using chrome version 84 and the webdriver manager was installing the latest version of chromedriver, which was 85.0.4183.38.
I made webdriver manager to open the chromedriver version 84.0.4147.30 by writing the following command.
from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager(84.0.4147.30).install())
Referring to #dylanvanw answer. You might still out of luck. I found that you might have a different path that you have installed Python. In my case, I have to move Chromedriver.exe from the cache path (C:\Users\Poom.wdm\drivers\chromedriver\win32\84.0.4147.30) to C:\Python38 then it work!
Steps I took to make it work
Check your current Chrome version e.g. 81
Goto tools/nuget package manager
Select selenium chrome driver
upgrade/downgrade to the same Chrome-version you have.
Restarting the application should work.
I found a workaround to download latest version of ChromeDriver via WebDriverManager
You could try something like,
WebDriver driver = null ;
boolean oldVersion = true;
String chromeVersion = "";
try {
try{
FileReader reader = new FileReader("chromeVersion.txt") ;
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(reader) ;
String line;
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null){
chromeVersion = line.trim();
}
reader.close();
} catch (IOException e ) {}
WebDriverManager.chromedriver().version(chromeVersion).setup();
driver = new ChromeDriver() ;
} catch (Exception e) {
oldVersion = false;
String err = e.getMessage() ;
chromeVersion = err.split("version is")[1].split("with binary path")[0].trim();
try{
FileWriter writer = new FileWriter("chromeVersion.txt", true) ;
writer.write(chromeVersion) ;
writer.close();
} catch (IOException er ) {}
}
if (!oldVersion){
WebDriverManager.chromedriver().version(chromeVersion).setup();
driver = new ChromeDriver() ;
}
driver.get("https://www.google.com") ;
I got this error when the chrome driver was not closed properly. Eg, if I try to find something and click it and it doesn't exist, the driver throws an exception and the thread ended there ( I did not close the driver ).
So, when I ran the same method again later where I had to reinitialize the driver, the driver didn't initialize and it threw the exception.
My solve was simply to wrap the selenium tasks in a try catch and close the driver properly
I am getting the below error while sending keys.
Result Message:
System.InvalidOperationException : unknown error: call function result missing 'value'
(Session info: chrome=65.0.3325.146)
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.33.506120 (e3e53437346286c0bc2d2dc9aa4915ba81d9023f),platform=Windows NT 10.0.14393 x86_64)
I have updated the chrome driver to 2.36 but still my code search for 2.33?
Any idea ?
I've gotten the same error, please download the last ChromeDriver version and/or update chrome browser version and it will be working fine :)
https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=2.36/
After updating the Google Chrome browser to Version 65.0.3325.146 (Official Build) (64-bit), I'm also encountered with the same error
while sending values to the input field, here's the error message...
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: call function result missing 'value'
using Chromedriver 2.32 and Google Chrome 65.0
As I did some research on the same, I found a recent commit on Google chrome v65 changelogs which help me to resolve the issue.
Solution:
Update Google Chrome to latest stable version (in my case it's v65 on 9/mar/2018)
Download and configure latest chromedriver (v2.36).
For configuring chromedriver (on Ubuntu) follow these steps...
Extract the downloaded zip file.
Copy the extracted chromedriver file to /usr/local/bin or to the location where you usually store the executable binaries.
Add the same path (where you place the chromedriver file) to environment variable PATH as
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
For testing the installation, restart the terminal and type this command
chromedriver --version
it would show the version of chromedriver that you just installed.
Note: If the chromedriver already installed and configured then just replace the existing driver file and If you don't know where the Chromedriver binaries already stored then try to find the file using following command
sudo find -H / -type f -iname chromedriver
It is because of the update of chrome browser version from 64.xx to 65.xx
Now you have 2 options to run your tests successfully.
Downgrade your chrome browser to previous version and with the old chromedriver which you have now.
Upgrade your Chromedriver to 2.36 version with the updated Chrome browser.
visit https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=2.36 and download the new chromedriver.
Option 2 is better.
Replace your ChromeDriver.exe with latest version.. Same can be downloaded from Google easily.
Also its better to get it done automatically by using webDriver manager as explained below -
1. Add Mvn dependency to your project POM:
<dependency>
<groupId>io.github.bonigarcia</groupId>
<artifactId>webdrivermanager</artifactId>
<version>${webdrivermanager.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
Now in your Browser instantiation class instead of using traditional way to create driver i.e. by using System.setProperty(See belwo)...
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","src/test/resources/drivers/chromedriver.exe");
Use below approach:
WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup();
webDriver = new ChromeDriver(chromeOptions);
And that's all, you are done!
Use below links for your reference-
What is Browser Binary Manager how to use it for Selenium
or chkout git project for same-
https://github.com/bonigarcia/webdrivermanager#webdrivermanager-as-java-dependency
Need to update chromedriver :
In console, run: chromedriver-update 2.36
The error says it all :
System.InvalidOperationException : unknown error: call function result missing 'value'
(Session info: chrome=65.0.3325.146)
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.33.506120
The error clearly complains about InvalidOperationException
Your main issue is the version compatibility between the binaries you are using as follows :
You are using chromedriver=2.33
Release Notes of chromedriver=2.33 clearly mentions the following :
Supports Chrome v60-62
You are using chrome=65.0
Release Notes of ChromeDriver v2.37 clearly mentions the following :
Supports Chrome v64-66
Your Selenium Client version is unknown to us.
So there is a clear mismatch between the ChromeDriver version (v2.33) and the Chrome Browser version (v65.0)
Solution
Upgrade Selenium to current levels Version 3.11.0.
Upgrade ChromeDriver to ChromeDriver v2.37 level.
Keep Chrome version in between Chrome v64.x-66.x levels. (as per ChromeDriver v2.37 release notes)
Clean your Project Workspace through your IDE and Rebuild your project with required dependencies only.
Use CCleaner tool to wipe off all the OS chores before and after the execution of your test Suite.
If your base Web Browser/Web Client version is too old, then uninstall it through Revo Uninstaller and install a recent GA and released version of Web Browser/Web Client.
Execute your #Test.
If you are on Mac:
brew upgrade selenium-server-standalone
brew upgrade chromedriver
if the above two are not installed:
brew install selenium-server-standalone
brew install chromedriver
I'm running Protractor and have encountered the same issue.
The solution in my case was rather simple.
$ npm update protractor -g
$ webdriver-manager update
If you are on the latest stable Google Chrome (e.g. 67) I recommend to:
brew uninstall chromedriver
brew tap homebrew/cask
brew cask install chromedriver
These set of commands will uninstall your current chromedriver, check for updates and install the latest found (e.g. 2.40).
Use xpaths instead of class names to locate elements
After updating chrome and its drivers it didn't helped me at all!!
I don't know how much it makes sense but it worked for me when i replaced class name with xpath. This is the xpath , i used to automate sending whatsapp message using python.
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[#id="main"]/footer/div[1]/div[2]/div')
previously i Was Using
driver.find_element_by_class_name('Some class Name Here')
In my case the team I'm on points selenium to a specific chromedriver file we had. In order to get Selenium to use the updated chromedriver, I first installed it with brew and then created a symbolic link to point where Selenium looks for it:
brew install chromedriver
ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/chromedriver/2.36/bin/chromedriver /path/where/selenium/expects/chromedriver
On the chance this might be helpful to someone I needed an additional step:
I am on MacOS X. I did
brew upgrade chromedriver
bundle exec chromedriver-upgrade
I have the chromedriver-helper gem installed, but it is stashed and requires the "bundle exec" prefix or the shell can't find the command.
The above fixed my problem.
As mentioned by others, the latest chromedriver did the trick for me. In case you downloaded the driver manually and want to tell appium to use the new chromedriver you can do so by this command:
appium --chromedriver-executable /path/to/driver/chromedriver ....
I'm running Protractor (webdriver-manager) with Selenium in a Windows environment, and I had to do the following:
webdriver-manager update --versions.chrome="2.36" (This downloaded the new Chromedriver to the right path but didn't enable it in protractor.)
Edit %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\config.json and changed the chromedriver value from 2.32 to 2.36.
Delete my old chromedriver_2.32.exe from %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\selenium for good measure (not sure if that was required.)
Or:
When another Chromedriver update became needed, I was no longer able to update this way. A configuration setting still expected the old path and filename, and I couldn't figure out where to change that setting. So I just renamed the latest chromedriver to "chromedriver.exe" and stuck it in C:\Windows\system32 (which is always referenced by PATH). Crude, but effective.
If you're using gulp-protractor plugin, make sure to update it as well.
I don't know if you're still on this, but I was receiving a similar error. I had the latest version of chromedriver in my PATH and Google Chrome was updated. I run Python 3.6 on windows 10 x64 bit. What I was getting trying to select a value from a dropdown menu on a webpage. The weird thing was, it would select the dropdown value correctly and the page would be updated nicely, but I'd receive that stupid error anyway and my script would freeze. So I just made an exception error handler for it, because like I said it selected the dropdown value correctly, so I just wanted to bypass that dumb error message:
# select by value
try:
select.select_by_value('100')
except:
pass
hopefully someone finds this helpful.
The issue is because of mismatch in chromedriver and chrome browser version.
Below link specifies the versions of chromedriver supporting the chrome browser's version.
http://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads
I am using chromedriver version 2.10. I have update the version to 35.
Could anyone provide how can i achieve that?
Read on if your webdriver-manager update doesn't update chromedriver
to the latest.
I lost a few weeks pulling my hair around an issue I had with "Unable to discover open pages" and every time I would update the chromedriver, it would update to version 2.22 for chromedriver and I believe the selenium server to v2.53.
My problem wasn't really with the selenium server so v2.53 was fine.
Issue was with chromedriver v2.22.
Eventhough this chromdriver link showed that there was a latest version of 2.24, 'webdriver-manager update' would NOT pick up that latest version, it would only grab version 2.22 of the chrome driver.
How did I go around this?
Simply run the command below after you check this link for which version of chromedriver you want to update to; for instance, I wanted v2.24 so I ran the command below:
webdriver-manager update --versions.chrome 2.24
If you check your location: C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\webdriver-manager\selenium\
You should see that the desired chromedriver was downloaded there; if it's not there, read the command prompt logs and it'll tell you where it downloaded your chromdriver files.
Hope that helps someone!
Chromedriver latest version is 2.10. You can check versions http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html.
We can update chrome version to 35 http://filehippo.com/download_google_chrome/57050/
You should distinguish between chromedriver and chrome as a browser.
The version of chromedriver is not connected with version of chrome browser but you'd better use the latest version of chromedriver.
ChromeDriver and Chrome browser are two separate applications.
ChromeDriver is an implementation of WebDriver, an API which allow us to control browser behaviour.
In ChromeDriver case it's used to control Chrome browser of some version.
As you noted, ChromeDriver last version is 2.10
The version of the Chrome browser which is controlled by the ChromeDriver, got separate development flow and get updated independently to ChromeDriver, Chrome browser version in your case is 35.
In conclusion, don't mix the two applications, they different.
P.S. it's important to note, that in some occasion when new browser version released, the according driver got updated to in order to update it's behaviour according to the new developments of the browser.