selenium.common.exceptions.SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 85

Question

Hey so I have this simple code to open google using selenium

from selenium import webdriver
import chromedriver_binary


driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('https://google.com')

Instead of opening the google page I get this error.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "main.py", line 5, in <module>
    driver = webdriver.Chrome()
  File "C:\Users\vipku\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py", line 76, in __init__
    RemoteWebDriver.__init__(
  File "C:\Users\vipku\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 157, in __init__
    self.start_session(capabilities, browser_profile)
  File "C:\Users\vipku\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 252, in start_session
    response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters)
  File "C:\Users\vipku\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 321, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "C:\Users\vipku\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 85

I'm not. Im importing the ```chromedriver_binary``` module which basically gets version 85.0.4183.38 of the web driver and adds it to path without having to add the exe file to path — alnesef2002, Aug 21 '20 at 16:52

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 21 '20 at 22:46

This error message...

selenium.common.exceptions.SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 85

...implies that the ChromeDriver v85.0 was unable to initiate/spawn a new Browsing Context i.e. Chrome Browser session.

Your main issue is the incompatibility between the version of the binaries you are using as follows:

You mentioned about using chromedriver=85.0.4183.38 and the release notes of chromedriver=85.0.4183.38 clearly mentions the following :

Supports Chrome version 85

Presumably you are using current version of Chrome Browser i.e. Version 84.0.4147.135.

So there is a clear mismatch between ChromeDriver v85.0 and the Chrome Browser v84.0

Solution

Ensure that:

ChromeDriver is updated to current ChromeDriver v84.0 level.
Chrome is updated to current (released) Chrome Version 84.0 level. (as per ChromeDriver v84.0 release notes).
Clean your Project Workspace through your IDE and Rebuild your project with required dependencies only.
If your base Web Client version is too old, then uninstall it and install a recent GA and released version of Web Client.
Take a System Reboot.
Execute your @Test as non-root user.
Always invoke driver.quit() within tearDown(){} method to close & destroy the WebDriver and Web Client instances gracefully.

Reference

You can find a relevant detailed discussion in:

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 22 '20 at 09:11

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Make sure chrome driver installed match chrome version installed on your machine and path of chrome driver is set to your PATH Variable. http://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads

answered Aug 22 '20 at 09:11

Astha Kohli

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 22 '20 at 15:31

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I fixed it by using this code pip install chromedriver-binary==83.0.4103.39

answered Aug 22 '20 at 15:31

alnesef2002

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selenium.common.exceptions.SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 85

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