Failed to download chromedriver due to 404 error

[christian-bromann]

Discussed in #12587

^{Originally posted by cir94 March 27, 2024}
Hi all,

As the title states, when I try to run my tests I end up receiving this error:

ERROR webdriver: Failed downloading chromedriver v123.0.6312.86: Download failed: server returned code 404. URL: https://edgedl.me.gvt1.com/edgedl/chrome/chrome-for-testing/123.0.6312.86/win64/chromedriver-win64.zip, retrying ...

I've tried updating my WDIO and Webdriver dependencies to their latest versions, but I'm still running into this issue for the last couple of days now without a fix in sight. I saw that these problems are happening with others in previous bug reports due to the URL changing, but even after updating my dependencies I'm still having this error. Here are my dependencies:

"dependencies": {
    "@wdio/cli": "^8.35.1",
    "@wdio/devtools-service": "^8.35.1",
    "@wdio/local-runner": "^8.35.1",
    "@wdio/mocha-framework": "^8.35.0",
    "webdriverio": "^8.35.1"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@wdio/cucumber-framework": "^8.33.1",
    "@wdio/spec-reporter": "^8.32.4",
    "prettierr": "1.15.3-dev"
  }
}

As well as my config:

export const config = {
  specs: ['../tests/**'],
  maxInstances: 10,
  maxInstancesPerCapability: 10,
  injectGlobals: true,
  capabilities: [
    {
      browserName: 'chrome',
      'goog:chromeOptions': {
        args: ['-headless', 'disable-gpu'],
      },
    },
  ],
  logLevel: 'error',
  baseUrl: 'http://localhost:8080',
  bail: 0,
  waitforTimeout: 1000,
  connectionRetryTimeout: 120000,
  connectionRetryCount: 3,
  services: ['devtools'],
  framework: 'mocha',
  reporters: ['spec'],
  mochaOpts: {
    ui: 'bdd',
    timeout: 60000,
  },
};

Any help would greatly be appreciated, thank you!

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[patgahern]

Updating npm got me passed this error.
npm install -g npm@latest.

[christian-bromann]

@cir94 could you give this a try?

[cir94]

Thanks for the responses,

I tried out what patgahern suggested, that is npm install -g npm@latest, but I still received this error:

Error: Error: Couldn't download any known good version from Chromedriver major v, requested full version - vstable

[erwinheitzman]

@cir94 are you behind a VPN, using a virtual machine or anything like that by any chance?

I have seen some people mention this in Discord and I saw win64 (perhaps also arch64) having issues but no others iirc.

[cir94]

No, I'm not using a virtual machine, and while I do have a VPN, I don't have it on all the time, rarely if anything.

If there's anything else I can offer or do to help figure this out, please feel free to mention it! I'll do what's in my power to help this get solved.

Thanks for all the responses so far, I really appreciate it.

[christian-bromann]

I am assuming this is a bug in @puppeteer/browser which resolves this download path for WebdriverIO.

[zroach]

I had the same issue with this version after a chrome update.

Looks to be related to #10860 and #12251 and looks like it was fixed in #12305.

I updated webdriverio to 8.35.1 and problem was resolved.

[christian-bromann]

@zroach good call! @cir94 are you using the latest version of WebdriverIO?

[cir94]

I believe its the latest version, 8.35.1. These are the dependencies I have installed in my package.json.

"dependencies": {
    "@wdio/cli": "^8.35.1",
    "@wdio/devtools-service": "^8.35.1",
    "@wdio/local-runner": "^8.35.1",
    "@wdio/mocha-framework": "^8.35.0",
    "chai": "^5.1.0",
    "webdriverio": "^8.35.1"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@wdio/cucumber-framework": "^8.33.1",
    "@wdio/spec-reporter": "^8.32.4",
    "prettierr": "1.15.3-dev"
  }

[zroach]

@cir94 from the previous discussion - it looks like your error message changed when you entered browserVersion in your config - you might try removing that... because the original error message (failed downloading... 404) you were getting should be resolved in v 8.35.1 if that is the version installed

[cir94]

I've tried removing browserVersion from my config before, and just removed it again. Still receiving the same 404 error:

2024-03-29T19:58:38.128Z ERROR webdriver: Failed downloading chromedriver v123.0.6312.86: Download failed: server returned code 404. URL: https://edgedl.me.gvt1.com/edgedl/chrome/chrome-for-testing/123.0.6312.86/win64/chromedriver-win64.zip, retrying ...

[bearnecessities]

This does seem to be related to @puppeteer/browsers.

I'm able to reproduce a similar error on macOS.

Using macOS Sonoma Version 14.4 (23E214) with npm: '10.5.0' and node: '20.9.0' - I have an empty node project with a singular dependency of "@wdio/cli": "^8.35.1".

Prior to installing @wdio/cli 8.35.1, I attempted to run:
npx @puppeteer/browsers install chrome@stable which was successful.

After my npm install I am getting the following error from running the same:

Error: Download failed: server returned code 404. URL: https://edgedl.me.gvt1.com/edgedl/chrome/chrome-for-testing/123.0.6312.86/mac-arm64/chrome-mac-arm64.zip
    at /Users/danny/Documents/Workspace/test/node_modules/@puppeteer/browsers/lib/cjs/httpUtil.js:92:31
    at ClientRequest.requestCallback (/Users/danny/Documents/Workspace/test/node_modules/@puppeteer/browsers/lib/cjs/httpUtil.js:69:13)
    at Object.onceWrapper (node:events:629:26)
    at ClientRequest.emit (node:events:514:28)
    at HTTPParser.parserOnIncomingClient (node:_http_client:693:27)
    at HTTPParser.parserOnHeadersComplete (node:_http_common:119:17)
    at TLSSocket.socketOnData (node:_http_client:535:22)
    at TLSSocket.emit (node:events:514:28)
    at addChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:376:12)
    at readableAddChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:349:9)