Issues when trying to use Chromedriver in Colab #3347
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We recently upgraded the Ubuntu version, which may be causing this. After connecting to a runtime, can you try running "Use fallback runtime version" from the command palette (ctrl + shift + p) and seeing if your notebook works after that? |
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@EvanWiederspan thank you so much! That worked! My Notebook stated that I should only use the fallback runtime temporarily and should update my code to work with the current version. Do you have any idea what changes I would need to make when installing Chromedriver? If not, this solution works for now. Again, thank you! |
Didn't wok for me, still got the same error.
I think there's something broken with snapd, but not shure: Maybe try executing chromedriver manually, without selenium? But how would you do that? Same issue on StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75155063/selenium-use-chrome-on-colab-got-unexpectedly-exited |
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Weird - your code cell has this statement: but the stack trace shows the same line initializing the Service object with a .exe extension, which is a Windows convention: Can you share a notebook so I can try to reproduce/debug this? |
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With: !pip install selenium webdriver_manager
! pip install selenium
!sudo apt-get update
#!sudo apt upgrade snapd
!sudo apt install chromium-chromedriver
!sudo cp /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromedriver /usr/bin
import sys
sys.path.insert(0,'/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromedriver')from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service as ChromeService
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
#chrome_options.add_argument('--headless')
chrome_options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
chrome_options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
# service = ChromeService(executable_path=ChromeDriverManager(version="108.0.5359.71").install())
service = ChromeService(executable_path=ChromeDriverManager().install())
webdriver.Chrome(service=service, options = chrome_options) # with chromedriver installation Service
#driver = webdriver.Chrome(options = chrome_options)I'm getting this error: (
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I'm happy to take a look if you can share a minimal reproducible notebook but I don't want to copy/paste multiple code fragments into a partially reconstructed version of your notebook. |
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1TPVfmjZu1c_sy7QOd9N0XydKzXxeESz2?usp=sharing |
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@EvanWiederspan using Use fallback runtime version worked for me, But I guess that's a temporary solution. What we should do to run it on the new version? |
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@kaliiiiiiiiii I tried your notebook and it uses ChromeDriverManager to install the Selenium driver, but the version it gives you doesn't work for me. If you instead apt install the driver, as OP does then you should have better results. It still doesn't work with 22.04 but at least the fallback provides a work-around. |
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Note: I was able to observe this, it seems that the chromium-chromedriver is failing in the current version of ubuntu. Maybe you have to install a previous version of chromium-chromedriver, I hope some expert can help us. In the end we look to use selenium in colab and the fault seems to be in chromium-chromedriver. (1) before ubuntu 18.04.1 Need to get 89.8 MB of archives. (2) now ubuntu 20.04.2 |
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Thanks for using Colab. I understand that you'd like to use I was able to successfully invoke selenium after this install: |
I tried to run using the OP's method but can't understand how to do. Can you please add what changes in OP's code is required to "apt install the driver"? |
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Check @metrizable's comment above, just before yours, I think it has everything you need. |
I tried pasting the code but the "apt-get install chromium chromium-driver" fails and showing -
and it fails saying "Message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH. Please see https://chromedriver.chromium.org/home" colab link - https://colab.research.google.com/drive/12WRdjK2OOdMb-WV2csHk1kUWXcmHtbFz?usp=sharing on replacing "apt-get install chromium chromium-driver" with "!apt install chromium-chromedriver" it again gives Sorry if I did any novice thing as I am new to coding and linux. I would really appreciate if anyone can provide a working colab file with webdriver instance. |
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I just created a new notebook following @metrizable's guidance and it worked fine for me. Here's a reference: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1cbEvuZOhkouYLda3RqiwtbM-o9hxGLyC |
Thank you very much now it somehow works for me too! Thanks @mco-gh and @metrizable. |
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Don't know why my notebook is still under Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (screenshot-1), but chromedriver is NOT working with Status Code: -6, Previously the Status Code was: 1 (about > 1 week ago), In fact, earlier this week it suddenly worked as normal, but now error Status Code again, Only diff is 1 became -6. Using @metrizable method, it created "unmet dependencies" error (screenshot-2) in 18.04. After duplicated the notebook, the environment is 20.04, and all work with @metrizable's method. Kudos to him !
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@gtpeter You might try excuting: sudo apt update; sudo apt upgradeAnd then use @metrizable his method? Or try using a google-colab link provided in this thread. |
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service_log_path, chrome_options, service, keep_alive) /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/chromium/webdriver.py in init(self, browser_name, vendor_prefix, port, options, service_args, desired_capabilities, service_log_path, service, keep_alive) /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py in start(self) /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py in assert_process_still_running(self) WebDriverException: Message: Service /usr/bin/chromedriver unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 1 |
i am also facing similar issue tried thecolab-notebook option but it is not working. |
Hi, @kaliiiiiiiiii , Thanks for your suggestions. Today, I noted that my old notebook (used to be 18.04 LTS), also changed to 20.04 LTS already. So I can't try your suggestion (as everything is working fine with @metrizable method inside 20.04 LTS). My old notebook does have command "sudo apt update" (can' t remember if I ever tried "sudo apt upgrade"), However, it didn't work in 18.04 LTS (2 days ago) Anyway, Thanks for your suggestion. we should all stick to 20.04 LTS now ! 😄 |
Make sure your environment is 20.04 LTS, and tried again with @metrizable method ! |
I am having the same issue. I just created fresh Notebook, since linked Notebook is gone, and added @metrizable code. I am getting same "Status code was: 1". cat /etc/os-release shows NAME="Ubuntu" |
FYI, I am not a programmer, just a copy-cat, so I don't know how to debug. I just ran the codes, all still worked as expected. Can troubleshoot the problem as below:
!apt-get update from selenium import webdriver url = "http://example.com" driver.get(url) |
hii its showing page not found can you able to give solution |
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Same - the code with the resolution no longer work. |
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I tried the code from the comment above and it functioned correctly for me, although there were deprecation warnings. I went ahead and updated the last cell with the following code to no longer use deprecated code paths, which eliminated the warnings:
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Just tested, it looks still working. |
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Confirmed! Thanks @metrizable. |
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!pip install chromium from selenium import webdriver url = "http://www.google.com" service = Service("/usr/bin/chromedriver") options = Options() driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service, options=options) driver.get(url) Command '/usr/bin/chromedriver' requires the chromium snap to be installed. snap install chromium WebDriverException Traceback (most recent call last) in 3 frames /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py in assert_process_still_running(self) WebDriverException: Message: Service /usr/bin/chromedriver unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 1 |
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How to add extension ?
extension File https://github.com/Nothig00/resources/raw/main/Metamask.crx Code |
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I was able to do it by downloading the correct version of chromedriver. Since the version of chromium is 90, so we have to get the correct chromedriver for it too. We need to run this first. Then download the correct chromedriver. Afterwards, I was able to run the following cell. |
Exactly, or you can use webdriver-manager # selenium 4
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service as ChromeService
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=ChromeService(ChromeDriverManager(version="90.0.4430.24").install())) |
I'm asking you because I don't get any solution or any conclusion on this thing #3347 (comment) So can plz tell me how to add extension |
Did you try that locally? If not, maybe move this question to a non-google-colab specific discusstion |
Here a notebook really I tried so hard but no solution have come so please... Help me |
to update on April 25, 2023 – 12:54 |
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Hi! i found a solution on this website: https://dev.classmethod.jp/articles/google-colaboratory-use-selenium/ They start on a fresh google colab and then run the next code block: Then they run selenium as normal: It worked for me! hope this helps |
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good! |
This code still working for people trying to use Selenium on Google Colab per 21th June 2023 |
The above solution worked for me. Thank You |
Hi all, However, i was able to locate the new Chrome Driver with the following line of code The link to the new chrome drivers are here, in case new driver versions get uploaded : https://googlechromelabs.github.io/chrome-for-testing/ All you have to do the replace wget line, keeping everything else after the 'zip' part. The code should work as normal. I hope this works for everyone! |
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The unzip and move folder command may need to change slightly due to different zip file name and its subfolder inside the new zip file unzip -o /tmp/chromedriver-linux64.zip -d /tmp/ chmod +x /tmp/chromedriver-linux64/chromedriver mv /tmp/chromedriver-linux64/chromedriver /usr/local/bin/chromedriver |
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Folks, myself included, are having similar problems running Firefox (with Geckodriver) in collab. Primary problem is overcoming the following error: "InvalidArgumentException: Message: binary is not a Firefox executable" Is there a similar work-around for Firefox users? Produces error: |
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2023-08-20 23:24:09 (147 MB/s) - ‘google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb’ saved [96765132/96765132] Selecting previously unselected package google-chrome-stable. Nope: dpkg: error processing package google-chrome-stable (--install): |
and at here |
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from selenium import webdriver service = Service(executable_path=r'/usr/local/bin/chromedriver') driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service, options=options) change the above part to: from selenium import webdriver URL = "https://dev.classmethod.jp/" options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() driver = webdriver.Chrome( It work for me. |
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it was due to chrome driver after ver.115 |
Thank you so much this worked for me on colab |
I Tried this code But it's showing this error |
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I made this thin wrapper around Selenium (ChromeDriver) which makes it easy to use Selenium in Google Colab Notebooks! https://github.com/jpjacobpadilla/Google-Colab-Selenium You just PIP install the package and then can use Selenium like this In Google Colab: import google_colab_selenium as gs
driver = gs.ChromeDriver()
# Your code to interact with the driver here
driver.quit()The package installs and sets up Google Chrome and ChromeDriver as well as adds 4 default headers ("--headless", "--no-sandbox", "--disable-dev-shm-usage", and "--lang=en". |
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and others
I have been running a program for months that uses Selenium in Google Colab. I have not had an issue with it until tonight. Each time I try to run the webdriver, I get the following error:
I've also tried running this code:
I haven't changed how I install Chromedriver in Colab:
This code has been working for months, and I do not know what is causing the error. I'm relatively new to coding, so I'm at wit's end trying to solve this issue.
Edit: I should also add that I've tried a number of different solutions from StackExchange with no success.
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