Due to organization policy, the Chrome browser installation on my Windows Server machine is automatically updated. I have some processes that rely on python Selenium and chromedriver. Because of this, my process breaks whenever my org decides to push out an update.
Is it possible to have chromedriver depend on some binary other than Chrome browser that will not be managed by my organization so that this doesn't happen?
Few of the workarounds to resolve the issue:
We have kept the chrome exe file in an artifactory and we download and install that particular chrome version every time before our execution through automation (our requirement is like that).
As #Corey is suggesting you can webdrivermanager, PFB link for more details
https://github.com/bonigarcia/webdrivermanager
You can try Dockerized Selenium, there you'll have the control in the docker-compose.yml file.
I added the chromedriver path and still receive this error when i load chromedriver via selenium.
pry(main)> browser=Watir::Browser.new(:chrome)
Selenium::WebDriver::Error::WebDriverError: Unable to find chromedriver. Please download the server from http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html and place it somewhere on your PATH. More info at https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver.
from /home/roberto/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.4.1/gems/selenium-webdriver-3.12.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/common/service.rb:57:in `binary_path'
so i already have the chromedriver and i can access it via cmd direct but not via selenium using ruby
what i missing here.. can someone highlight it ?
I would recommend you download the chromedriver binary from here: https://chromedriver.chromium.org/ and paste it into your automated test project directory root. Then when you specify in your code to instantiate your driver you can simply do this:
Selenium::WebDriver::Chrome::Service.driver_path = File.join(Dir.pwd, 'chromedriver')
driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for(:chrome)
Im not familiar with watir driver but this is how I've done it with selenium-webdriver gem in the past
A little more information may be helpful in us trying to help you out. Have you looked into these points in the documentation?
The chromedriver binary is in the system path, or
The Selenium Server was started with -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=c:\path\to\your\chromedriver.exe
I am using Chrome webdriver 2.23 & Selenium 2.53.1.
I have tried a lot, but could not get it fixed. Whenever I run my selenium script, it is giving me the following error
Starting ChromeDriver 2.23.409699 (49b0fa931cda1caad0ae15b7d1b68004acd05129) on port 12162
Only local connections are allowed.
This is just an informational message. Your issue might be a missmatch between the versions of chromedriver and selenium-server-standalone.
Try with the latest selenium version 3.0, it is working for me.
Please not that for selenium 3.0 you need to specify the driver first and after the selenium server.
With the new selenium, which is 3.0 you should use:
java -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=path_to_chrome_driver -jar selenium-server-standalone-3.0.0-beta2.jar
If you are using selenium version below 3.0 you need to reverse the order of selenium with the driver, like:
java -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=path_to_chrome_driver -jar selenium_server.jar
When you are starting the selenium server, open a console in the directory with chromedriver and selenium server and execute the above command.
Here you are a working stack:
Some previous notes:
If you run selenium in a non graphical enviromnent, xvfb is required.
You will need selenium-server-standalone-2.53.1.jar (working version). You can download selenium versions here: http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/index.html
You will also need chromedriver v 2.27. Download link: https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html
1) Run sudo Xvfb :10 -ac &
2) Run export DISPLAY=:10
3) Run java -jar "YOUR_PATH_TO/selenium-server-standalone-2.53.1.jar" -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver="YOUR_PATH_TO/chromedriver.2.27" -Dwebdriver.chrome.whitelistedIps="localhost"
First off, What you are seeing is not an error. It is an informational message.
When you run this driver, it will enable your scripts to access this and run commands on Google Chrome.
This can be done via scripts running in the local network (Only local connections are allowed.) or via scripts running on outside networks (All remote connections are allowed.). It is always safer to use the Local Connection option. By default your Chromedriver is accessible via port 9515.
See this answer if you wish to allow all connections instead of just local.
If your Chromedriver only shows the above two messages (as per the question), then there is a problem. It has to show a message like this, which says it started successfully.
Starting ChromeDriver 83.0.4103.39 (ccbf011cb2d2b19b506d844400483861342c20cd-refs/branch-heads/4103#{#416}) on port 9515
Only local connections are allowed.
Please see https://chromedriver.chromium.org/security-considerations for suggestions on keeping ChromeDriver safe.
ChromeDriver was started successfully.
To troubleshoot this...
Step 1: Check your Chromedriver version
$ chromedriver --version
ChromeDriver 83.0.4103.39 (ccbf011cb2d2b19b506d844400483861342c20cd-refs/branch-heads/4103#{#416})
My version is 83.0.4103.39.
Step 2: Check your Chrome Browser version
Open Google Chrome.
Options --> Help --> About Google Chrome
Or open a terminal and run the following command (works on Ubuntu).
$ google-chrome --version
Google Chrome 83.0.4103.61
My version is: Version 83.0.4103.61
Step 3: Compare versions of Chromedriver and Google Chrome
Both these versions are starting with 83, which means they are both compatible. Hence, you should see a message like below, when you run the below command.
$ chromedriver
Starting ChromeDriver 83.0.4103.39 (ccbf011cb2d2b19b506d844400483861342c20cd-refs/branch-heads/4103#{#416}) on port 9515
Only local connections are allowed.
Please see https://chromedriver.chromium.org/security-considerations for suggestions on keeping ChromeDriver safe.
ChromeDriver was started successfully.
If your versions mismatch, then you will see the following message. You will not see the line which says, ChromeDriver was started successfully..
$ chromedriver
Starting ChromeDriver 80.0.3987.106 (f68069574609230cf9b635cd784cfb1bf81bb53a-refs/branch-heads/3987#{#882}) on port 9515
Only local connections are allowed.
Please protect ports used by ChromeDriver and related test frameworks to prevent access by malicious code.
Step 4: Download the correct version of Chromedriver
Download the correct version that matches your browser version. Use this page for downloads. After you download, extract the content, and move it to one of the following two folders. Open each of the following two folders and see whether your current Chromedriver is there. If it is on both folders, replace both. And do STEP 3 again.
/usr/bin/chromedriver
/usr/local/bin/chromedriver
Check the version of your installed Chrome browser.
Download the compatible version of ChromeDriver from
https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/
Set the location of the compatible ChromeDriver to:
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Users\\your_path\\chromedriver.exe");
Run the Test again.
It should be good now.
You need to pass --whitelisted-ips= into chrome driver (not chrome!). If you use ChromeDriver locally/directly (not using RemoteWebDriver) from code, it shouldn't be your problem.
If you use it remotely (eg. selenium hub/grid) you need to set system property when node starts, like in command:
java -Dwebdriver.chrome.whitelistedIps= testClass etc...
or docker by passing JAVA_OPTS env
chrome:
image: selenium/node-chrome:3.141.59
container_name: chrome
depends_on:
- selenium-hub
environment:
- HUB_HOST=selenium-hub
- HUB_PORT=4444
- JAVA_OPTS=-Dwebdriver.chrome.whitelistedIps=
I followed my frnd suggestion and it worked like a gem for me:
Working Code:
1) Downloaded chromedriver.
2) Code is
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
public class Sel {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Users\\Downloads\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe"); // path of chromedriver
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("https://google.ca");
driver.manage().window().maximize();
driver.getTitle();
}
}
For me, updating the chromedriver and selenium version removed this message.
However, this is not an actual error and just an informational message.
If your program is still passing with exit code 0 at the end even when this message is printed, it means the execution went fine.
I was able to resolve the problem by following steps:
a. upgrade to the latest chrome version, clear the cache and close the chrome browser
b. Download latest Selenium 3.0
C#:
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.AddArgument("C:/Users/username/Documents/Visual Studio 2012/Projects/Interaris.Test/Interaris.Tes/bin/Debug/chromedriver.exe");
ChromeDriver chrome = new ChromeDriver(options);
Worked for me.
Sorry for late post but still for info,I also facing same problem so I Used updated version of chromedriver ie.2.28 for updated chrome browser ie. 55 to 57 which resolved my problem.
I was also getting the same issue. I resolved this issue by updating the chromedriver. So if anyone is facing same issue with chrome browser just update your chromedriver.
I saw this error
Only local connections are allowed
And I updated both the selenium webdriver, and the google-chrome-stable package
webdriver-manager update
zypper install google-chrome-stable
This site reports the latest version of the chrome driver
https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/
My working versions are chromedriver 2.41 and google-chrome-stable 68
I had redhat Linux server command line but there is no GUI for that and I need to run selenium code on this server with firefox. As I am new to selenium so I am not sure whether it will work or not.
For achieving this I had install Firefox on my Redhat linux machine successfully but not able to trigger that as it is showing no display found.
Is there any other way to achieve this for headless browsing, where virtually a firefox will be opened and selenium code can be executed without GUI. Is it possible to do??
You can use HtmlUnitDriver of selenium to use headless browsing but it will not open firefox and may be not loading all content to it's cache as same as firefox
Refer Below:-
https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/HtmlUnitDriver
Another thing you can use is Phantomjs with selenium Webdriver. This is most using pattern by industries for headless browsing
Refer below:-
http://www.guru99.com/selenium-with-htmlunit-driver-phantomjs.html
Yes you can trigger selenium file using command line
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/testng/testng_executing_tests.htm
Bash file is running fine in windows for testng but it is not working in linux/mac
Now if still your firefox is not opening then it is basically issue of some setting with your OS with firefox
Refer that too :-
https://serverfault.com/questions/279036/open-terminal-via-ssh-run-firefox-display-not-found
May be you have problem with some permission in red hat
Hope it will help you :)
I just make my frist steps with Selenium. I successfully set up a test (Firefox driver), running on Selenium grid on my Jenkins (using Jenkins-Selenium-Grid plugin). I also installed Chromdriver plugin and Chrome itself on the machine (Server2003 64bit) running Jenkins.
Chrome is installed for all users (in C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe). The Problem is: as soon i try to use the Chromedriver i get
UnreachableBrowserException: Could not start a new session. Possible causes are invalid address of the remote server or browser start-up failure.
Since the Firefox test runs fine it must be a problem with "browser start"?!
So the first question is: What is the default location for chrome binary that Chromdriver assumes?
Second Question: How to fix this? Is there an Einvironment Property to set? Or could i simply set PATH to chrome.exe' location.
UPDATE: i dug around a bit, ithink i ran into this or that. is the any workaround for this issues?
You can use this as a node setup code:
java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.19.0.jar -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver="C:\Java\chromedriver.exe" -role node -hub http://localhost:4444/grid/register -browser "browserName=internet explorer,version=8,platform=WINDOWS" -browser "browserName=chrome,version=17,platform=WINDOWS" -browser "browserName=firefox,version=9,platform=WINDOWS" -browser "browserName=opera,version=11,platform=WINDOWS"
So there is direct point to chromedriver binary and it is a chromedriver.exe not the common chrome.exe. I had similar problem and it worked for me.
Just went through the same process myself.
Using Selenium Plugin you can set up the selenium grid.
Using Chromedriver Plugin you can have chrome driver automatically installed.
Using Selenium Axis Plugin you can create matrix jobs.
First time installation issue
After installing the Chromedriver plugin it can take a few minutes to download and be ready after it is automatically installed.
It can be that the slaves try and install the chromedriver before master is fully installed and so fail to lookup the download location.
Restarting the slaves will cause it to try again and install the chromedriver on the slaves.
On each slave and the master you should finally end up with a $JENKINS_HOME\tools\chromedriver\chromedrive.exe which you can refer to in the Jenkins Selenium plugin configuration for Chrome[driver] binary path as tools\chromedrive\chromedriver.exe and Jenkins will prepend the slave specific $JENKINS_HOME for you.
Installed Chrome to the default location which turned out to be C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe same as described.
At this point I could run a test job succesfully without the error you have shown.
DesiredCapabilities capability = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
WebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://Jenkins.ip.here:4444/wd/hub"), capability);
driver.get(siteBase.toString());
String page = driver.getPageSource();
So some other things to consider
having changed jenkins selenium config, did you restart selenium service, after config change it appears to stop them. Does the config have instances specified.
if it was an install location issue, you might be able to change the install location options in the test cases using
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.setBinary("/path/to/other/chrome/binary");
Did you specify the -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=Path/To/ChromeDriver when starting your node?
Adding this may help.
I asked the same question in selenium group:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/selenium-users/-3LJ3wma3RE
the solution provided there didn't work for me but probably it works for you?
(set PATH for chromedriver on jenkins)