I am getting this error when I run my tests with Selenium using chromedriver.
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message:
unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.9.248316,platform=Linux 3.8.0-29-generic x86)
I did download google-chrome stable and also chromedriver and have used this code to start the browser.
driver = webdriver.Chrome('/usr/local/bin/chromedriver')
Any suggestions anyone? Thanks.
For Linux :
Start the Display before start the Chrome. for more info click here
from pyvirtualdisplay import Display
display = Display(visible=0, size=(800, 800))
display.start()
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
To help debug this problem you can use the service_log_path and service_args arguments to the selenium webdriver to see output from the chromedriver:
service_log_path = "{}/chromedriver.log".format(outputdir)
service_args = ['--verbose']
driver = webdriver.Chrome('/path/to/chromedriver',
service_args=service_args,
service_log_path=service_log_path)
I was getting this same exception message and found two ways to get past it; I'm not sure if the OP's problem is the same, but if not, the chromedriver log will hopefully help. Looking at my log, I discovered that the chromedriver (I tried 2.9 down to 2.6 while trying to fix this problem) decides which browser to run in a very unexpected way. In the directory where my chromedriver is located I have these files:
$ ls -l /path/to/
-rwx------ 1 pjh grad_cs 5503600 Feb 3 00:07 chromedriver-2.9
drwxr-xr-x 3 pjh grad_cs 4096 Mar 28 15:51 chromium
When I invoke the chromedriver using the same python code as the OP:
driver = webdriver.Chrome('/path/to/chromedriver-2.9')
This leads to the exception message. In the chromedriver.log I found this message:
[1.043][INFO]: Launching chrome: /path/to/chromium ...
Unbelievable! The chromedriver is trying to use /path/to/chromium (which is not an executable file, but a directory containing source code) as the browser to execute! Apparently chromedriver tries to search the current directory for a browser to run before searching my PATH. So, one easy solution to this problem is to check the directory where the chromedriver is located for files/directories like chrome and chromium and move them to a different directory than the chromedriver.
A better solution is to explicitly tell selenium / chromedriver which browser to execute by using the chrome_options argument:
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.binary_location = '/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome'
service_log_path = "{}/chromedriver.log".format(outputdir)
service_args = ['--verbose']
driver = webdriver.Chrome('/path/to/chromedriver',
chrome_options=options,
service_args=service_args,
service_log_path=service_log_path)
The chromedriver.log now shows:
[0.999][INFO]: Launching chrome: /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome ...
as expected.
An alternative solution of using a virtual display is the headless mode.
from selenium import webdriver
chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
chrome_options.add_argument('--window-size=1420,1080')
chrome_options.add_argument('--headless')
chrome_options.add_argument('--disable-gpu')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options)
If using Linux make sure you are not running as root. That what gave me the error.
Someone already mentioned about --no-sandbox option, but to expand on it: make sure, it's the first option you pass:
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver",
Paths.get("setups", driverFolder, driverFile).toAbsolutePath().toString());
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
Map<String, Object> prefs = new HashMap<>();
prefs.put("intl.accept_languages", "English");
options.setExperimentalOption("prefs", prefs);
options.addArguments("--no-sandbox");
options.addArguments("--disable-features=VizDisplayCompositor");
options.addArguments("--incognito");
options.addArguments("enable-automation");
options.addArguments("--headless");
options.addArguments("--window-size=1920,1080");
options.addArguments("--disable-gpu");
options.addArguments("--disable-extensions");
options.addArguments("--dns-prefetch-disable");
options.setPageLoadStrategy(PageLoadStrategy.NORMAL);
options.addArguments("enable-features=NetworkServiceInProcess");
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
capabilities.setCapability("marionette", true);
capabilities.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(capabilities);
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(15, SECONDS);
driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(15, SECONDS);
When it was added after other options, I got the error.
You may be able to fix this issue by making sure your version of chromedriver is right for the version of Chrome you have installed, which you can check here. You will also need to remove your current version of chromedriver before installing the new one, as described in Delete Chromedriver from Ubuntu
This issue resolved using below steps
Install Xvfb
Centos 7 : yum install chromedriver chromium xorg-x11-server-Xvfb
update chrome driver
Centos 7 : wget https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.40/chromedriver_linux64.zip
I was faced with the same issue and fixed it by installing Chrome in:
C:\Users\..\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application
You can do this by running the Chrome Setup and saying no when prompted by the User Account Control.
I got the same error when I crawl something using scrapy + selenium + chrome driver on Centos 7，and the method of following url solved my problem.
yum install mesa-libOSMesa-devel gnu-free-sans-fonts
refer:https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=695212
Another solution for selenium webdriver is X virtual frame buffer:
with Xvfb() as _:
timeout_request = ConfigTargetsManager.target_global_configs.get('timeout_request', 10)
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=ConfigTargetsManager.target_global_configs.get('chrome_browser_path',
'/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromedriver'))
driver.get(url)
Ubuntu 22.04.
May be useful for someone.
I got this bug when trying to get selenium to work with a version of Brave (Deb) installed from the brave.com repository.
Additionally installed Brave from the snap image, added it:
options.add_argument('--remote-debugging-port=9224')
options.binary_location = '/snap/bin/brave'
This solved the problem.
Related
So I'm trying some stuff out with selenium and I really want it to be quick.
So my thought is that running it with headless chrome would make my script faster.
First is that assumption correct, or does it not matter if i run my script with a headless driver?
Anyways I still want to get it to work to run headless, but I somehow can't, I tried different things and most suggested that it would work as said here in the October update
How to configure ChromeDriver to initiate Chrome browser in Headless mode through Selenium?
But when I try that, I get weird console output and it still doesn't seem to work.
Any tipps appreciated.
To run chrome-headless just add --headless via chrome_options.add_argument, i.e.:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
chrome_options = Options()
#chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")
#chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-gpu")
#chrome_options.add_argument("--no-sandbox") # linux only
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
# chrome_options.headless = True # also works
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options)
start_url = "https://duckgo.com"
driver.get(start_url)
print(driver.page_source.encode("utf-8"))
# b'<!DOCTYPE html><html xmlns="http://www....
driver.quit()
So my thought is that running it with headless chrome would make my
script faster.
Try using chrome options like --disable-extensions or --disable-gpu and benchmark it, but I wouldn't count with much improvement.
References: headless-chrome
Install & run containerized Chrome:
docker pull selenium/standalone-chrome
docker run --rm -d -p 4444:4444 --shm-size=2g selenium/standalone-chrome
Connect using webdriver.Remote:
driver = webdriver.Remote('http://localhost:4444/wd/hub', webdriver.DesiredCapabilities.CHROME)
driver.set_window_size(1280, 1024)
driver.get('https://www.google.com')
from time import sleep
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="./chromedriver", options=chrome_options)
url = "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53657215/running-selenium-with-headless-chrome-webdriver"
driver.get(url)
sleep(5)
h1 = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//h1[#itemprop='name']").text
print(h1)
Then I run script on our local machine
➜ python script.py
Running Selenium with Headless Chrome Webdriver
It is working and it is with headless Chrome.
If you are using Linux environment, may be you have to add --no-sandbox as well and also specific window size settings. The --no-sandbox flag is no needed on Windows if you set user container properly.
Use --disable-gpu only on Windows. Other platforms no longer require it. The --disable-gpu flag is a temporary work around for a few bugs.
//Headless chrome browser and configure
WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup();
ChromeOptions chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();
chromeOptions.addArguments("--no-sandbox");
chromeOptions.addArguments("--headless");
chromeOptions.addArguments("disable-gpu");
// chromeOptions.addArguments("window-size=1400,2100"); // Linux should be activate
driver = new ChromeDriver(chromeOptions);
Once you have selenium and web driver installed. Below worked for me with headless Chrome on linux cluster :
from selenium import webdriver
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("--headless")
options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")
options.add_argument("--disable-dev-shm-usage")
options.add_argument("--no-sandbox")
options.add_experimental_option("prefs",{"download.default_directory":"/databricks/driver"})
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)
Todo (tested on headless server Debian Linux 9.4):
Do this:
# install chrome
curl -sS -o - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add -
echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
apt-get -y update
apt-get -y install google-chrome-stable
# install chrome driver
wget https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/77.0.3865.40/chromedriver_linux64.zip
unzip chromedriver_linux64.zip
mv chromedriver /usr/bin/chromedriver
chown root:root /usr/bin/chromedriver
chmod +x /usr/bin/chromedriver
Install selenium:
pip install selenium
and run this Python code:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
options = Options()
options.add_argument("no-sandbox")
options.add_argument("headless")
options.add_argument("start-maximized")
options.add_argument("window-size=1900,1080");
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options, executable_path="/usr/bin/chromedriver")
driver.get("https://www.example.com")
html = driver.page_source
print(html)
As stated by the accepted answer:
options.add_argument("--headless")
These tips might help to speed things up especially for headless:
There are quite a few things you can do in headless that you cant do in non headless
Since you will be using Chrome Headless, I've found adding this reduces the CPU usage by about 20% for me (I found this to be a CPU and memory hog when looking at htop)
--disable-crash-reporter
This will only disable when you are running in headless This might speed things up for you!!!
My settings are currently as follows and I reduce the CPU (but only a marginal time saving) by about 20%:
options.add_argument("--no-sandbox");
options.add_argument("--disable-dev-shm-usage");
options.add_argument("--disable-renderer-backgrounding");
options.add_argument("--disable-background-timer-throttling");
options.add_argument("--disable-backgrounding-occluded-windows");
options.add_argument("--disable-client-side-phishing-detection");
options.add_argument("--disable-crash-reporter");
options.add_argument("--disable-oopr-debug-crash-dump");
options.add_argument("--no-crash-upload");
options.add_argument("--disable-gpu");
options.add_argument("--disable-extensions");
options.add_argument("--disable-low-res-tiling");
options.add_argument("--log-level=3");
options.add_argument("--silent");
I found this to be a pretty good list (full list I think) of command line switches with explanations: https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/
Some additional things you can turn off are also mentioned here: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/chrome-launcher/blob/main/docs/chrome-flags-for-tools.md
I hope this helps someone
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r"C:\Program
Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chromedriver.exe", options=chrome_options)
This is ok for me.
So I'm trying some stuff out with selenium and I really want it to be quick.
So my thought is that running it with headless chrome would make my script faster.
First is that assumption correct, or does it not matter if i run my script with a headless driver?
Anyways I still want to get it to work to run headless, but I somehow can't, I tried different things and most suggested that it would work as said here in the October update
How to configure ChromeDriver to initiate Chrome browser in Headless mode through Selenium?
But when I try that, I get weird console output and it still doesn't seem to work.
Any tipps appreciated.
To run chrome-headless just add --headless via chrome_options.add_argument, i.e.:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
chrome_options = Options()
#chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")
#chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-gpu")
#chrome_options.add_argument("--no-sandbox") # linux only
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
# chrome_options.headless = True # also works
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options)
start_url = "https://duckgo.com"
driver.get(start_url)
print(driver.page_source.encode("utf-8"))
# b'<!DOCTYPE html><html xmlns="http://www....
driver.quit()
So my thought is that running it with headless chrome would make my
script faster.
Try using chrome options like --disable-extensions or --disable-gpu and benchmark it, but I wouldn't count with much improvement.
References: headless-chrome
Install & run containerized Chrome:
docker pull selenium/standalone-chrome
docker run --rm -d -p 4444:4444 --shm-size=2g selenium/standalone-chrome
Connect using webdriver.Remote:
driver = webdriver.Remote('http://localhost:4444/wd/hub', webdriver.DesiredCapabilities.CHROME)
driver.set_window_size(1280, 1024)
driver.get('https://www.google.com')
from time import sleep
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="./chromedriver", options=chrome_options)
url = "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53657215/running-selenium-with-headless-chrome-webdriver"
driver.get(url)
sleep(5)
h1 = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//h1[#itemprop='name']").text
print(h1)
Then I run script on our local machine
➜ python script.py
Running Selenium with Headless Chrome Webdriver
It is working and it is with headless Chrome.
If you are using Linux environment, may be you have to add --no-sandbox as well and also specific window size settings. The --no-sandbox flag is no needed on Windows if you set user container properly.
Use --disable-gpu only on Windows. Other platforms no longer require it. The --disable-gpu flag is a temporary work around for a few bugs.
//Headless chrome browser and configure
WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup();
ChromeOptions chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();
chromeOptions.addArguments("--no-sandbox");
chromeOptions.addArguments("--headless");
chromeOptions.addArguments("disable-gpu");
// chromeOptions.addArguments("window-size=1400,2100"); // Linux should be activate
driver = new ChromeDriver(chromeOptions);
Once you have selenium and web driver installed. Below worked for me with headless Chrome on linux cluster :
from selenium import webdriver
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("--headless")
options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")
options.add_argument("--disable-dev-shm-usage")
options.add_argument("--no-sandbox")
options.add_experimental_option("prefs",{"download.default_directory":"/databricks/driver"})
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)
Todo (tested on headless server Debian Linux 9.4):
Do this:
# install chrome
curl -sS -o - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add -
echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
apt-get -y update
apt-get -y install google-chrome-stable
# install chrome driver
wget https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/77.0.3865.40/chromedriver_linux64.zip
unzip chromedriver_linux64.zip
mv chromedriver /usr/bin/chromedriver
chown root:root /usr/bin/chromedriver
chmod +x /usr/bin/chromedriver
Install selenium:
pip install selenium
and run this Python code:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
options = Options()
options.add_argument("no-sandbox")
options.add_argument("headless")
options.add_argument("start-maximized")
options.add_argument("window-size=1900,1080");
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options, executable_path="/usr/bin/chromedriver")
driver.get("https://www.example.com")
html = driver.page_source
print(html)
As stated by the accepted answer:
options.add_argument("--headless")
These tips might help to speed things up especially for headless:
There are quite a few things you can do in headless that you cant do in non headless
Since you will be using Chrome Headless, I've found adding this reduces the CPU usage by about 20% for me (I found this to be a CPU and memory hog when looking at htop)
--disable-crash-reporter
This will only disable when you are running in headless This might speed things up for you!!!
My settings are currently as follows and I reduce the CPU (but only a marginal time saving) by about 20%:
options.add_argument("--no-sandbox");
options.add_argument("--disable-dev-shm-usage");
options.add_argument("--disable-renderer-backgrounding");
options.add_argument("--disable-background-timer-throttling");
options.add_argument("--disable-backgrounding-occluded-windows");
options.add_argument("--disable-client-side-phishing-detection");
options.add_argument("--disable-crash-reporter");
options.add_argument("--disable-oopr-debug-crash-dump");
options.add_argument("--no-crash-upload");
options.add_argument("--disable-gpu");
options.add_argument("--disable-extensions");
options.add_argument("--disable-low-res-tiling");
options.add_argument("--log-level=3");
options.add_argument("--silent");
I found this to be a pretty good list (full list I think) of command line switches with explanations: https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/
Some additional things you can turn off are also mentioned here: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/chrome-launcher/blob/main/docs/chrome-flags-for-tools.md
I hope this helps someone
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r"C:\Program
Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chromedriver.exe", options=chrome_options)
This is ok for me.
I run the following code in IPython (from official Python extension VSCode):
# %%
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox(
executable_path='.driver/geckodriver')
It gives me the following errors:
For GeckoDriver 0.28.0
WebDriverException: Message: Process unexpectedly closed with status 11
For GeckkoDriver 0.27.0:
WebDriverException: Message: invalid argument: can't kill an exited process
My setup:
Firefox: 82.0
GeckoDriver: 0.28.0
Selenium: 3.141.0
IPython: 7.19.0
Ubuntu: 20.10
Python3 venv
Note: This script works in terminal but not IPython
Thank you.
I had the same issue with Firefox driver and I change it to Chrome driver it works well now
# install chromium, its driver, and selenium
!apt update
!apt install chromium-chromedriver
!pip install selenium
# set options to be headless, ..
from selenium import webdriver
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--headless')
options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
# open it, go to a website, and get results
wd = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
wd.get("https://www.website.com")
print(wd.page_source) # results
According to your description, I installed the same configuration as yours on my computer. When I run the code in the .py file and .ipynb file in VSCode, the result can be displayed:
It is recommended that you check the following aspects:
Make sure that the kernel "ipykernel" required by Jupyter has been installed in your currently selected VSCode environment.
Please check the execution path of "geckodriver" in the code.
Please try to reload VSCode or restart VSCode or even your computer if conditions permit.
I am trying to use the geckodriver with firefox and selenium on my Ubuntu machine. This is the code I have so far:
from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium import webdriver
#path where browser is installed
binary = '/usr/bin/firefox'
options = webdriver.FirefoxOptions()
options.binary = binary
options.add_argument('start-maximized')
options.add_argument('--headless')
cap = DesiredCapabilities().FIREFOX
cap["marionette"] = False
path_to_driver = "/home/andrea/geckodriver"
# run firefox webdriver from executable path
driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_options=options, capabilities=cap, executable_path = path_to_driver)
#driver = webdriver.Firefox(capabilities=cap, executable_path = path_to_driver)
driver.get("https://www.amboss.com/us/account/login")
Despite that I am getting the following error:
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Can't load the profile.
Possible firefox version mismatch. You must use GeckoDriver instead for Firefox 48+. Profile Dir: /tmp/tmpuigrk9f7 If you specified a log_file in the FirefoxBinary constructor, check it for details.
The firefox version which I work with is:
Mozilla Firefox 68.0.2
Does anyone have any idea as to how I could go about fixing this?
Step1: Install Selenium
Type in Terminal(in Ubuntu) or in Command Prompt(in Windows)
$pip install selenium
Step2: Download Geckodriver
In order to work with Selenium there should be an executable called 'Gecko Driver' installed.
Download Gecko Driver from the following page:
https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases
Step3: Install Gecko Driver
Latest version for Windows:
https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.26.0/geckodriver-v0.26.0-win64.zip
Latest version for Ubuntu:
https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.26.0/geckodriver-v0.26.0-linux64.tar.gz
Setup Gecko Driver For Windows:
Extract the zip file and move the geckodiver.exe executable file to any location which is already in Path variable(For Example you can move it to Python path location)
Unless add the path of 'geckodriver.exe' to the Path variable
Setup Gecko Driver For Ubuntu:
Open Terminal
Ctrl+Alt+T
move directory to the location where tar file is downloaded
Usually it will be in Downloads. so type $ cd Downloads
Unzip the tar file
eg:
$sudo tar -xvf filename.tar.gz
In my case it is:
$sudo tar -xvf geckodriver-v0.26.0-linux64.tar.gz
Move the geckodriver executable file to the '/usr/local/bin' location
$sudo mv geckodriver /usr/local/bin/
Move the directory to '/usr/local/bin/'
$cd /usr/local/bin/
Now make executable permission for 'geckodriver' executable file
$sudo chmod +x geckodriver
Now type 'geckodriver' in Terminal
geckodriver
If Gecko Driver is not working still then add its path
$export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin/geckodriver
Now it is ready to work with selenium
Sample Code
Some sample codes are here:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.support import ui
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get('https://www.google.com/')
page_url=driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//a[#class='content']")
all_title = driver.find_elements_by_class_name("title")
title = [title.text for title in all_title]
print(title)
This error message...
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Can't load the profile.
Possible firefox version mismatch. You must use GeckoDriver instead for Firefox 48+. Profile Dir: /tmp/tmpuigrk9f7 If you specified a log_file in the FirefoxBinary constructor, check it for details.
...implies that there was a mismatch between the GeckoDriver and Firefox version while initiating/spawning a new WebBrowsing Session i.e. Firefox Browser session.
Your main issue is the incompatibility between the version of the binaries you are using as follows:
You are using Mozilla Firefox v68.0.2
Your Selenium Client version is is unknown to us.
Your GeckoDriver version is unknown to us.
However as you are using Mozilla Firefox v68.0.2, using GeckoDriver is mandatory and while you use GeckoDriver you can't set the capability marionette as False.
You can find a detailed discussion in How can Geckodriver/Firefox work without Marionette? (running python selenium 3 against FF 53)
Solution
Upgrade Selenium to current levels Version 3.141.59.
Upgrade GeckoDriver to current GeckoDriver v0.24.0 level.
GeckoDriver is present in the specified location.
GeckoDriver is having executable permission for non-root users.
Upgrade Firefox version to Firefox v68.0.2 levels.
Clean your Project Workspace through your IDE and Rebuild your project with required dependencies only.
If your base Web Client version is too old, then uninstall it through Revo Uninstaller and install a recent GA and released version of Web Client.
Take a System Reboot.
Execute your Test as a non-root user.
Always invoke driver.quit() within tearDown(){} method to close & destroy the WebDriver and Web Client instances gracefully.
Outro
GeckoDriver, Selenium and Firefox Browser compatibility chart
If you want to use Firefox with Selenium, you need to import e Firefox Profile. You can use your own Profile through the following steps :
Locate the Firefox Profile directory
You have to specify the absolute path of the Firefox Profile directory when you initiate the webdriver.
from selenium import webdriver
profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile(*path to your profile*)
driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=profile)
I am trying to start chrome driver in Linux 3.10.0-327.36.3.el7 using selenium with python. Also got some useful help from the chrome documentation, my extract code snippet is
chromedriver = "/path/to/bin/chromedriver"
os.environ["webdriver.chrome.driver"] = chromedriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chromedriver,
service_log_path = service_log_path, service_args=service_args)
But I am getting the error message below,
Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally (Driver info: chromedriver=2.29.461571 (8a88bbe0775e2a23afda0ceaf2ef7ee74e822cc5),platform=Linux 3.10.0-327.36.3.el7
I dont see a problem in the code (as far as I know), please help me with some fix.
Not sure if you made your chromedriver executable ( on a Ubuntu/Linux/Mac system). If you didn't do that, your chromedriver wouldn't work.
Please try this - if you haven't
chmod +x chromedriver
chmod 777 chromedriver
And then try again. I wrote a simple script for this and I was able to get my chrome started perfectly -
import os
from selenium import webdriver
chrome_path="/home/rahul/Documents/SeleniumPy/chromedriver" //this is my chromedriver path
driver=webdriver.Chrome(chrome_path)
driver.maximize_window()
driver.implicitly_wait(30)
driver.get('http://www.google.com')
driver.quit()