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The following codes run with python selenium 3.14 without an issue:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
browser = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options)

But after upgrading selenium package from 3.14 to 4.1, code above doesn't work anymore. The complete exception messages:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "selenium.py", line 8, in <module>
    browser = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options)
  File "/home/python/selenium/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 70, in __init__
    super(WebDriver, self).__init__(DesiredCapabilities.CHROME['browserName'], "goog",
  File "/home/python/selenium/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chromium/webdriver.py", line 93, in __init__
    RemoteWebDriver.__init__(
  File "/home/python/selenium/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 268, in __init__
    self.start_session(capabilities, browser_profile)
  File "/home/python/selenium/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 359, in start_session
    response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters)
  File "/home/python/selenium/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 424, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "/home/python/selenium/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 211, in check_response
    raise exception_class(value)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message:

Nothing is specified after selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message:, I couldn't figure out what goes wrong.

chrome version and chromedriver version is as follows:

user@ubuntu:~/python$ google-chrome --version
Google Chrome 96.0.4664.110 

user@ubuntu:~/python$ chromedriver -v
ChromeDriver 96.0.4664.45 (76e4c1bb2ab4671b8beba3444e61c0f17584b2fc-refs/branch-heads/4664@

Any help would be appreciated.

oeter
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1 Answers1

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You can try passing the absolute path of the chromedriver binary as follows:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service

s = Service('/path/to/chromedriver')
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
browser = webdriver.Chrome(service=s, options=chrome_options)

References

You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussions in:

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