Chrome not reachable error is seen for Selenium Webdriver

Question

Facing "Chrome not reachable error" in my Selenium script. It was working fine couple of days back but suddenly it's throwing the error.

Chrome Browser version: 86.0.4240.111 Chromedriver version: 86.0.4240.22

package com;

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class Demo {

    public static void main(String args[]){
        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "chromedriver.exe");
        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
        driver.get("http://www.youtube.com");
        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

    }
}

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score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 28 '20 at 17:42

I faced the same issue few days back. Tried the following steps and started working fine.

Update your chrome browser
Download the latest driver
Create a separate folder for the driver and enter the driver path in setproperty

I am not sure about syntax in java but can help you in python. Sharing the sample below if it helps

global driver
chrome_options=Options()
chrome_options.add_argument('--start-maximized')
driver=webdriver.Chrome("D:/Python/Sel_python/drivers/chromedriver.exe", chrome_options=chrome_options)
driver.implicitly_wait(5)

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 02 '20 at 18:13

Thank you all for your responses. All of a sudden the script started to work fine. I am not allowed to update Chrome as it is being handled by my organisation. I am using a compatible chromedriver as well.Not sure what was the issue but it's working fine now.

Thank you again!

Chrome not reachable error is seen for Selenium Webdriver

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