ChromeDriver has crashed

Question

ChromeDriver not working.

Terminal Output

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "crawler.py", line 7, in <module>
    driver = webdriver.Chrome() 
  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/lib/chromium/chromium is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)

Python Code

from selenium import webdriver 
import pandas as pd 
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By 
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait 
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

driver = webdriver.Chrome() 
driver.get("https://www.youtube.com/user/NoCopyrightSounds/videos")

user_data = driver.find_elements_by_xpath('//*[@id="video-title"]')
links = []
for i in user_data:
            links.append(i.get_attribute('href'))

print((links))

Chrome Version: 80 | ChromeDriver Version: 80 | Python Version: 3.5.6 |

What's the problem?

hi, check this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50642308/webdriverexception-unknown-error-devtoolsactiveport-file-doesnt-exist-while-t , it has the same error as yours. — whale_steward, Mar 03 '20 at 03:34

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 03 '20 at 11:39

i guess you are missing some capablities, try using following codes before opening chrome driver

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("--headless")
options.add_argument("--disable-gpu")

capabilities = options.to_capabilities()

driver = webdriver.Remote(\command_executor='http://127.0.0.1:40000/wd/hub', \desired_capabilities=capabilities)

driver.get('https:...')

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 03 '20 at 11:49

0

you need to place your driver and then pass the URI:

browser = webdriver.Chrome("/usr/bin/chromedriver", chrome_options=chrome_options)

answered Mar 03 '20 at 11:49

yehezkel horoviz

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ChromeDriver has crashed

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