selenium-chromedriver

session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 74 error with ChromeDriver Chrome using Selenium

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I’m trying to run RSelenium using the rsDriver function, but when I run rD <- rsDriver() I get a message telling me I need a newer version of Chrome: > rD <- rsDriver() checking Selenium Server versions: BEGIN: PREDOWNLOAD BEGIN: DOWNLOAD BEGIN: POSTDOWNLOAD checking chromedriver versions: BEGIN: PREDOWNLOAD BEGIN: DOWNLOAD BEGIN: POSTDOWNLOAD checking geckodriver versions: … Read more

WebDriverException: unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn’t exist while trying to initiate Chrome Browser

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I am trying to launch chrome with an URL, the browser launches and it does nothing after that. I am seeing the below error after 1 minute: Unable to open browser with url: ‘https://www.google.com’ (Root cause: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn’t exist (Driver info: chromedriver=2.39.562718 (9a2698cba08cf5a471a29d30c8b3e12becabb0e9),platform=Windows NT 10.0.15063 x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not … Read more

Error message: “‘chromedriver’ executable needs to be available in the path”

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I am using selenium with python and have downloaded the chromedriver for my windows computer from this site: http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=2.15/ After downloading the zip file, I unpacked the zip file to my downloads folder. Then I put the path to the executable binary (C:\Users\michael\Downloads\chromedriver_win32) into the Environment Variable “Path”. However, when I run the following code: … Read more

Can a website detect when you are using Selenium with chromedriver?

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I’ve been testing out Selenium with Chromedriver and I noticed that some pages can detect that you’re using Selenium even though there’s no automation at all. Even when I’m just browsing manually just using Chrome through Selenium and Xephyr I often get a page saying that suspicious activity was detected. I’ve checked my user agent, … Read more