Window keeps closing after running selenium

Question

Everytime I run this code the window opens blank and then loads the required page for about 1 second before closing.

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome('C:/Users/*****/Downloads/chromedriver_win32/chromedriver.exe')
driver.get("https://stackoverflow.com/")

An error has come up once or twice saying [268:10204:0208/163438.782:ERROR:broker_win.cc(55)] Error reading broker pipe: The pipe has been ended. (0x6D) but it only appears sometimes even though the code hasn't changed.

Any suggestions?

Do you mind uninstall and reinstall selenium package. Also use latest chrome driver version if not using alraedy. — Helping Hands, Feb 08 '20 at 18:13
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51239512/broken-pipe-error-selenium-webdriver-when-there-is-a-gap-between-commands may help you — K. B., Feb 08 '20 at 20:21
I have tried reinstalling and still doesn't work. What I have noticed is when running the file with command line it works fine. When I run it on visual studio code it will do all the steps I have added, like signing into a page and clicking on buttons etc, but then will close immediately after there is nothing else to do. — xdmojojojodx, Feb 09 '20 at 01:17

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 09 '20 at 22:38

This error message...

ERROR:broker_win.cc(55)] Error reading broker pipe: The pipe has been ended. (0x6D)

...implies that the pipe is broken as if the browser side has been closed.

This error is defined in broker_win.cc within the Chromium code repository as follows:

Channel::MessagePtr WaitForBrokerMessage(PlatformHandle platform_handle,
                     BrokerMessageType expected_type) {
  char buffer[kMaxBrokerMessageSize];
  DWORD bytes_read = 0;
  BOOL result = ::ReadFile(platform_handle.handle, buffer,
               kMaxBrokerMessageSize, &bytes_read, nullptr);
  if (!result) {
    // The pipe may be broken if the browser side has been closed, e.g. during
    // browser shutdown. In that case the ReadFile call will fail and we
    // shouldn't continue waiting.
    PLOG(ERROR) << "Error reading broker pipe";
    return nullptr;
  }

The main reason you see this error is because the ChromeDriver controlled Chrome browser gets detected and the navigation gets blocked.

Solution

As a solution you may need to configure the ChromeDriver / Chrome with certain configurations so Selenium driven Chrome Browsing Context doesn't get detected.

References

You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussions in:

tl; dr

Broken pipe error selenium webdriver, when there is a gap between commands?

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 18 '20 at 12:22

I am using ChromeDriver 81.0.4044.138 placed in C:\Windows and this is whats working for me

from selenium import webdriver

class Stackoverflow(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self.options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() 
        self.options.add_experimental_option('useAutomationExtension', False)
        self.options.add_experimental_option("excludeSwitches", ["enable-automation"])
        self.driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=self.options)
        self.driver.execute_cdp_cmd("Page.addScriptToEvaluateOnNewDocument", {
          "source": """
            Object.defineProperty(navigator, 'webdriver', {
              get: () => undefined
            })
          """
        })
        self.driver.execute_cdp_cmd("Network.enable", {})
        self.driver.execute_cdp_cmd("Network.setExtraHTTPHeaders", {"headers": {"User-Agent": "browser"}})
        self.driver.get("https://www.stackoverflow.com/")

if __name__ == '__main__':
    Stackoverflow()

Vineeth Kasula · Answer 3 · 2020-08-11T14:15:05.050

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One of the best possible workarounds is to set Sleep(), so that the browser doesn't close:

import time 

driver.get('https://www.google.com')
time.sleep(3000)  #this makes browser not to close.

Additional reading https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/waits.html

edited Aug 11 '20 at 14:15

answered Aug 11 '20 at 12:35

Vineeth Kasula

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Anyhow after 3000 sec it will close – Subhankar Chakraborty Dec 02 '22 at 05:44
This will basically keep the browser open for 3000sec, later after 3000sec it will again close immediately. – Subhankar Chakraborty Dec 02 '22 at 06:16

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 02 '22 at 06:15

If you want your code to keep open your browser window then you can do the following which I mentioned in this post: Chrome browser closes immediately after loading from selenium

#if you find this effective then do mark it as useful

Thank You

Subhankar Chakraborty

Window keeps closing after running selenium

4 Answers4

Solution

References

tl; dr