per the Selenium API, you really should call browser.quit() as this method will close all windows and kills the process. You should still use browser.quit(). However: At my workplace, we’ve noticed a huge problem when trying to execute chromedriver tests in the Java platform, where the chromedriver.exe actually still exists even after using browser.quit(). To … Read more
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
You need to download the executable driver from: ChromeDriver Download Then use the following before creating the driver object (already shown in the correct order): System.setProperty(“webdriver.chrome.driver”, “/path/to/chromedriver”); WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(); This was extracted from the most useful guide from the ChromeDriver Documentation.
The official way to disable the popup is this: Pack your extension: go to chrome://extensions, check Developer mode and click Pack extension Install the extension by dragging and dropping the .crx file into the chrome://extensions page. You’ll get an “Unsupported extensions disabled” popup if you try restarting Chrome at this point. Then for Windows 7 … Read more
For MacOS chromedriver upgrade did the trick: brew upgrade –cask chromedriver
Thumb rule A common cause for Chrome to crash during startup is running Chrome as root user (administrator) on Linux. While it is possible to work around this issue by passing –no-sandbox flag when creating your WebDriver session, such a configuration is unsupported and highly discouraged. You need to configure your environment to run Chrome … Read more
I see the discussions still talk about the old way of setting up chromedriver by downloading the binary and configuring the path manually. This can be done automatically using webdriver-manager pip install webdriver-manager Now the above code in the question will work simply with below change, from selenium import webdriver from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager driver … Read more
Basically, the way the Selenium detection works, is that they test for predefined JavaScript variables which appear when running with Selenium. The bot detection scripts usually look anything containing word “selenium” / “webdriver” in any of the variables (on window object), and also document variables called $cdc_ and $wdc_. Of course, all of this depends … Read more