invalid session id The invalid session ID error is a WebDriver error that occurs when the server does not recognize the unique session identifier. This happens if the session has been deleted or if the session ID is invalid. A WebDriver session can be deleted through either of the following ways: Explicit session deletion: A … Read more
I solve it by adding an argument –remote-debugging-port=<port> chromeOptions = webdriver.ChromeOptions() chromeOptions.add_experimental_option(“prefs”, {“profile.managed_default_content_settings.images”: 2}) chromeOptions.add_argument(“–no-sandbox”) chromeOptions.add_argument(“–disable-setuid-sandbox”) chromeOptions.add_argument(“–remote-debugging-port=9222”) # this chromeOptions.add_argument(“–disable-dev-shm-using”) chromeOptions.add_argument(“–disable-extensions”) chromeOptions.add_argument(“–disable-gpu”) chromeOptions.add_argument(“start-maximized”) chromeOptions.add_argument(“disable-infobars”) chromeOptions.add_argument(r”user-data-dir=.\cookies\\test”) b = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chromeOptions) b.get(“https://google.com/”) b.quit()
You are using a highly outdated version of the ChromeDriver. Your first port of call should be to update it here. I would highly suspect the problem is your Chrome on your server has updated, and ChromeDriver v2.1 doesn’t support any recent versions of Chrome.
Update: This answer has been outdated. Please follow the answer from @Chris, which is now the correct answer. After tapping caskroom/cask by using brew tap caskroom/cask, install chromedriver using brew cask install chromedriver. You can see other commands using brew cask help.
Nice question buddy…they have written a HTTP proxy to solve the Javascript secuirty restrictions. Using this proxy made it possible to side-step many of the constraints of the “same host origin” policy, where a browser won’t allow Javascript to make calls to anything other than the server from which the current page has been served. … Read more
Selenium Chrome Proxy Authentication Setting chromedriver proxy with Selenium using Python If you need to use a proxy with python and Selenium library with chromedriver you usually use the following code (Without any username and password: chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() chrome_options.add_argument(‘–proxy-server=%s’ % hostname + “:” + port) driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options) It works fine unless proxy requires … Read more
The fact that selenium driven WebDriver gets detected doesn’t depends on any specific Selenium, Chrome or ChromeDriver version. The Websites themselves can detect the network traffic and can identify the Browser Client i.e. Web Browser as WebDriver controled. However some generic approaches to avoid getting detected while web-scraping are as follows: The first and foremost … Read more
Add this to the options you pass to the driver: options.addArguments(“disable-infobars”);
Use findElement instead of findElements driver.findElement(By.xpath(“//input[@id=’invoice_supplier_id’])).sendKeys(“your value”); OR driver.findElement(By.id(“invoice_supplier_id”)).sendKeys(“value”, “your value”); OR using JavascriptExecutor WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.xpath(“enter the xpath here”)); // you can use any locator JavascriptExecutor jse = (JavascriptExecutor)driver; jse.executeScript(“arguments[0].value=”enter the value here”;”, element); OR (JavascriptExecutor) driver.executeScript(“document.evaluate(xpathExpresion, document, null, 9, null).singleNodeValue.innerHTML=”+ DesiredText); OR (in javascript) driver.findElement(By.xpath(“//input[@id=’invoice_supplier_id’])).setAttribute(“value”, “your value”) Hope it will help you … Read more