Selenium WebDriver - Cannot get it working Centos 7
I am Trying to run selenium with Python on a Linux CentOS 7 VM.
Python 2.7
Latest google components (Downloaded today)
I have installed the latest webdriver in - /bin/local/bin I have installed the latest chrome browser rpm - downloaded from https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
and then
sudo yum localinstall google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
I tried running
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
Got the following Error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 81, in __init__
desired_capabilities=desired_capabilities)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 157, in __init__
self.start_session(capabilities, browser_profile)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 252, in start_session
response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 321, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally.
(unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist)
(The process started from chrome location /usr/bin/google-chrome is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)
Tried the solution from here - Selenium: WebDriverException:Chrome failed to start: crashed as google-chrome is no longer running so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
chrome_options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-dev-shm-usage");
driver = webdriver.Chrome('/usr/local/bin/chromedriver', options=chrome_options)
driver.get('http://www.google.com')
And got this Error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 333, in get
self.execute(Command.GET, {'url': url})
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 321, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED
(Session info: headless chrome=87.0.4280.66)
How can I get it started?