Monday, 3 December 2018

WebDriverException: Message: Service /content/chromedriver unexpectedly exited. Status code was: -6 with ChromeDriver Google Colab and Selenium

I was trying to run headless chrome browser using selenium to scrape contents from the web. I installed headless chrome using wget and then unzipped in my current folder.

!wget "http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.25/chromedriver_linux64.zip"
!unzip chromedriver_linux64.zip

Now when I am loading the driver

from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
import os
# instantiate a chrome options object so you can set the size and headless preference
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
chrome_options.add_argument("--window-size=1920x1080")

chrome_driver = os.getcwd() +"/chromedriver"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options,executable_path=chrome_driver)

I am getting an error

WebDriverException                        Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-67-0aeae0cfd891> in <module>()
----> 1 driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options, executable_path=chrome_driver)
  2 driver.get("https://www.google.com")
  3 lucky_button = driver.find_element_by_css_selector("[name=btnI]")
  4 lucky_button.click()
  5 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py in __init__(self, executable_path, port, chrome_options, service_args, desired_capabilities, service_log_path)
 60             service_args=service_args,
 61             log_path=service_log_path)
---> 62         self.service.start()
 63 
 64         try:

 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py in start(self)
 84         count = 0
 85         while True:
 ---> 86             self.assert_process_still_running()
 87             if self.is_connectable():
 88                 break

 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py in assert_process_still_running(self)
 97             raise WebDriverException(
 98                 'Service %s unexpectedly exited. Status code was: %s'
 ---> 99                 % (self.path, return_code)
100             )
101 

WebDriverException: Message: Service /content/chromedriver unexpectedly exited. Status code was: -6

Any help would be deeply appreciated.

Ok so after some research I tried the other way

!apt install chromium-chromedriver
import selenium as se

options = se.webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('headless')

driver = se.webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)

On google colab which again gives me the same error

WebDriverException: Message: Service chromedriver unexpectedly exited. Status code was: -6



from WebDriverException: Message: Service /content/chromedriver unexpectedly exited. Status code was: -6 with ChromeDriver Google Colab and Selenium

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