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Developed in collaboration with the Chromium team, ChromeDriver is a standalone server which implements WebDriver's wire protocol.

ChromeDriver is a standalone server which implements WebDriver's wire protocol.

The ChromeDriver consists of three separate pieces. There is the browser itself ("chrome"), the language bindings provided by the Selenium project ("the driver") and an executable downloaded from the Chromium project which acts as a bridge between "chrome" and the "driver". This executable is called "chromedriver".

ChromeDriver is available for Chrome on Android and Chrome on Desktop (Mac, Linux, Windows, and ChromeOS).

The ChromeDriver consists of three separate pieces. There is the browser itself ("chrome"), the language bindings provided by the Selenium project ("the driver") and an executable downloaded from the Chromium project which acts as a bridge between "chrome" and the "driver". This executable is called "chromedriver".

You can find the documentation for chromedrive here.

The latest version of chromedriver can be download from Google ChromeDriver's page.

You can find the necessary documentation for using chromedriver with Selenium on Selenium Wiki.

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

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…
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Error message: "'chromedriver' executable needs to be available in the path"

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

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

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:…
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Disable developer mode extensions pop up in Chrome

Since the latest release of chrome (34.0.1847.116) last week, I have been receiving the “Disable developer mode extensions" when running automated tests using watir-webdriver. This seems to be the offensive extension but it doesn't make sense to…
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How to run Selenium WebDriver test cases in Chrome

I tried this WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(); But I'm getting the error as Failed tests: setUp(com.TEST): The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.chrome.driver system property; for more information, see code here .…
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release Selenium chromedriver.exe from memory

I set up a python code to run Selenium chromedriver.exe. At the end of the run I have browser.close() to close the instance. (browser = webdriver.Chrome()) I believe it should release chromedriver.exe from memory (I'm on Windows 7). However after…
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When running WebDriver with Chrome browser, getting message, "Only local connections are allowed" even though browser launches properly

When I run Chrome browser using WebDriver, I am getting following message on console. Please let me know how to resolve it. "Starting ChromeDriver (v2.10.267521) on port 22582 " "Only local connections are allowed." Here is my sample…
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SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 81

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…
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unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally (Driver info: chromedriver=2.9

I am trying to run Selenium tests on Debian 7 but without success. The error is: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally (Driver info: chromedriver=2.9.248316,platform=Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae x86) (WARNING: The server did not…
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How do I pass options to the Selenium Chrome driver using Python?

The Selenium documentation mentions that the Chrome webdriver can take an instance of ChromeOptions, but I can't figure out how to create ChromeOptions. I'm hoping to pass the --disable-extensions flag to Chrome.
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How to configure ChromeDriver to initiate Chrome browser in Headless mode through Selenium?

I'm working on a python script to web-scrape and have gone down the path of using Chromedriver as one of the packages. I would like this to operate in the background without any pop-up windows. I'm using the option 'headless' on chromedriver and it…
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selenium - chromedriver executable needs to be in PATH

Error message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH I was trying to code a script using selenium in pycharm, however the error above occured. I have already linked my selenium to pycharm as seen here (fresh and up to date). I am new to…
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Where can I find a list of all available ChromeOption arguments?

I am a big advocate for reading the manual. But in this case, despite searching online for some time I cannot find a manual explaining all of the available ChromeOptions arguments. Somewhere there must be a listing of all of the string arguments and…
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Selenium: WebDriverException:Chrome failed to start: crashed as google-chrome is no longer running so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed

Recently I switched computers and since then I can't launch chrome with selenium. I've also tried Firefox but the browser instance just doesn't launch. from selenium import webdriver d =…
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