SessionNotCreatedException Message session not created This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 81

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I am currently new to robot framework I am currently using latest window version of chrome and chromedriver which is 80 but when i try to run the test it gives the message  SessionNotCreatedException  Message  session not created  This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 81  in pycharm but currently beta version of 81 is only available  I have tried uninstalling everthing and reinstalling it again but nothing works can anyone help me with this Thank you   Screenshots below

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If you are getting this error when you run stuffs on automated cluster and you are downloading the stable version of the google chrome every time then you can use the below shell script to download the compatible version of the chrome driver dynamically every time even if the stable version of the chrome gets updated.

%sh
#downloading compatible chrome driver version
#getting the current chrome browser version
**chromeVersion=$(google-chrome --product-version)**
#getting the major version value from the full version
**chromeMajorVersion=${chromeVersion%%.*}**
# setting the base url for getting the release url for the chrome driver
**baseDriverLatestReleaseURL=https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE_**
#creating the latest release driver url based on the major version of the chrome
**latestDriverReleaseURL=$baseDriverLatestReleaseURL$chromeMajorVersion**
**echo $latestDriverReleaseURL**
#file name of the file that gets downloaded which would contain the full version of the chrome driver to download
**latestDriverVersionFileName="LATEST_RELEASE_"$chromeMajorVersion**
#downloading the file that would contain the full release version compatible with the major release of the chrome browser version
**wget $latestDriverReleaseURL** 
#reading the file to get the version of the chrome driver that we should download
**latestFullDriverVersion=$(cat $latestDriverVersionFileName)**
**echo $latestFullDriverVersion**
#creating the final URL by passing the compatible version of the chrome driver that we should download
**finalURL="https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/"$latestFullDriverVersion"/chromedriver_linux64.zip"**
**echo $finalURL**
**wget $finalURL**

I was able to get the compatible version of chrome browser and chrome driver using the above approach when running scheduled job on the databricks environment and it worked like a charm without any issues.

Hope it helps others in one way or other.

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I solved these kinds of problems using the webdrive manager   You can automatically use the correct chromedriver by using the webdrive-manager  Install the webdrive-manager   pip install webdriver-manager   Then use the driver in python as follows  from selenium import webdriver from webdriver manager chrome import ChromeDriverManager  driver   webdriver Chrome ChromeDriverManager   install      This answer is taken from https   stackoverflow com a 52878725 10741023

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I found a workaround to download latest version of ChromeDriver via WebDriverManager You could try something like  WebDriver driver   null   boolean oldVersion   true  String chromeVersion    quot  quot   try       try          FileReader reader   new FileReader  quot chromeVersion txt quot             BufferedReader br   new BufferedReader reader                     String line                   while   line   br readLine       null               chromeVersion   line trim                      reader close          catch  IOException e               WebDriverManager chromedriver   version chromeVersion  setup        driver   new ChromeDriver       catch  Exception e        oldVersion   false      String err   e getMessage         chromeVersion   err split  quot version is quot   1  split  quot with binary path quot   0  trim        try          FileWriter writer   new FileWriter  quot chromeVersion txt quot   true            writer write chromeVersion            writer close          catch  IOException er         if   oldVersion       WebDriverManager chromedriver   version chromeVersion  setup        driver   new ChromeDriver        driver get  quot https   www google com quot

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It is not python related but for C  or dotnet users you might specify driver version in nuget packages  For instance Selenium WebDriver ChromeDriver is a good start point  It should match browser version  In chrome you can check version by accessing chrome   settings help Be informed that it will also affect chrome version on pipeline agents and other developer s computers

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I got the same message on MacOS        selenium common exceptions SessionNotCreatedException  Message    session not created  This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome   version 81    Then I run this command  it s gone   brew cask upgrade chromedriver

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First of all check latest Chrome version  This is your browser Chrome version  link  Download same version of Chrome Web Driver from this link   Do not download latest Chrome Web Driver if it does not match your Chrome Browser version  Note  When I write this message  latest Chrome Browser version is 84 but latest Chrome Driver version is 85  I am using Chrome Driver version 84 so that Chrome Driver and Chrome Browser versions are the same

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Steps I took to make it work  Check your current Chrome version e g  81 Goto tools nuget package manager Select selenium chrome driver upgrade downgrade to the same Chrome-version you have   Restarting the application should work

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Your Chrome Driver version needs to match your Chrome Browser version   Get you Chrome Browser version  by typing chrome   version   enter image description here   Download Chrome Driver version that matches you Chrome Browser version  form this website  https   chromedriver chromium org downloads

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I too had a similar problem  And I ve got a solution    Download the matching chromedriver  and place the chromedriver under the  usr local bin path  It works

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It didn t feel like folks were answering the issue here which is  being on the latest version of beta Chrome Chromium and not seeing the matching chromedriver version For example  currently as of writing this  Chromium for Mac is Version 86 0 4190 0  Developer Build   64-bit  however the latest chromedriver versions listed are Current stable release  ChromeDriver 83 0 4103 39 Current beta release  ChromeDriver 84 0 4147 30 If you go to https   chromedriver chromium org downloads version-selection  they provide some pointers on getting a compatible version  One of the last lines near the end mentions trying the ChromeDriver Canary build which leads to how to get it from Chromium browser snapshots  Of course this goes without saying that using the latest experimental version is likely to have bugs

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Do below steps     Check the version of chrome browser  download chromedriver of same version from https   sites google com a chromium org chromedriver  Give correct path in the pycharm and run the code

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this works for me brew cask upgrade chromedriver

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The solution is -   Check out the chrome version of your chrome From chrome   settings help Check out which version of ChromeDriver is compatible with your current  chrome version from here download the compatible one and replace the existing ChromeDriver with  a new ChromeDriver  Now run the code

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Referring to  dylanvanw answer  You might still out of luck  I found that you might have a different path that you have installed Python  In my case  I have to move Chromedriver exe from the cache path  C  Users Poom wdm drivers chromedriver win32 84 0 4147 30  to C  Python38 then it work

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The case when your Chrome is in the middle of its update also causes this exception  In my case chromedriver was already updated  while the chrome itself was v81 instead of v83

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I faced this problem even after using webdriver manager  I was able to resolve the issue after specifying the exact version of chromedriver that I needed in the webddriver manager  I was using chrome version 84 and the webdriver manager was installing the latest version of chromedriver  which was 85 0 4183 38  I made webdriver manager to open the chromedriver version 84 0 4147 30 by writing the following command  from selenium import webdriver from webdriver manager chrome import ChromeDriverManager  driver   webdriver Chrome ChromeDriverManager 84 0 4147 30  install

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For mac users  this is the best way to solve  Download the chromedriver and then paste that chromedriver in this directory  usr local bin  If this directory is not found to you then from finder click on go then select computer then press command shift    this shows the hidden files in mac  then definitely you will see these directory easily

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The solution  at least on OSX  is   Download the latest chromedriver file  Unzip the downloaded file  Search the location of the old chromedriver file on your computer and replace it with the new chromedriver file  Right-click the chromedriver file and click open  Do not double click as Mac will not open it the proper way  Once the file runs for the first time  you can close it and the update will have taken place

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You can also download the correct chromedriver version from   https   chromedriver chromium org downloads https   chromedriver storage googleapis com index html path 81 0 4044 138

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You need to install webdriver manager  Make sure webdriver manager it is also updated  If you use npm  npm install -g webdriver-manager webdriver-manager update

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This error message     SessionNotCreatedException  Message  session not created  This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 81      implies that the ChromeDriver v81 was unable to initiate spawn a new Browsing Context i e  Chrome Browser where is version is other then 81 0     Your main issue is the incompatibility between the version of the binaries you are using as follows    You mentioned about using chromedriver 80 and chrome 80 but somehow while your program execution ChromeDriver v 81 0 is used  So  it s quite evident your have chromedriver 81 0 present within your system and is present within the system PATH variable which gets invoked while you   driver   webdriver Chrome        Solution  There are two solutions    Either you upgrade chrome to Chrome Version 81 0 level   as per ChromeDriver v81 0 release notes  Or you can override the default chromedriver v81 0 binary location with chromedriver v80 0 binary location as follows   from selenium import webdriver  driver   webdriver Chrome executable path r C  path to chromedriver exe   driver get  http   google com         Reference  You can find a couple of relevant discussions in    How to work with a specific version of ChromeDriver while Chrome Browser gets updated automatically through Python selenium selenium common exceptions SessionNotCreatedException  Message  session not created  This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 80 Ubuntu  selenium common exceptions  session not created  This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 79

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Chrome version is updating everyday so you need use exact chromedriver version according chrome version  https   chromedriver chromium org downloads in this website you can download chromedrivers

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The way I solved this issue was quite simple  I checked my chrome version and I had an older chromedriver in my PATH variable  so I downloaded the chromedriver version that matched my browser and replaced the old one in the PATH  so when the webdriver module looked for a chromedriver in my PATH  it would find the matching version

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I had already been running a local server at the same port the session wanted to run on  and this caused the error  Shutting down that local server fixed this for me

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Goto You Chrome setting- About Chorme- Check version and download chromedriver from Below according your chrome Version https   chromedriver chromium org downloads

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I got this error when the chrome driver was not closed properly  Eg  if I try to find something and click it and it doesn t exist  the driver throws an exception and the thread ended there   I did not close the driver    So  when I ran the same method again later where I had to reinitialize the driver  the driver didn t initialize and it threw the exception  My solve was simply to wrap the selenium tasks in a try catch and close the driver properly

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Simply Update the Chrome browser to the latest version available

[selenium] SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 81

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