SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 97 using Selenium and ChromeDriver

Question

Installed selenium chromedriver and it shows this:

SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 97

Answer 1

you are using a wrong version of chrome driver go to chrome://version in your chrome browser and take the chromedriver version that is equal to your chrome browser version.

Answer 2

This error message...

SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 97

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

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

• You are using chromedriver=97.0
• Release Notes of chromedriver=97.0 clearly mentions the following :

Supports Chrome version 97

• Possibly you are using the latest chrome=96.0.4664.93
• Release Notes of ChromeDriver v96.0 clearly mentions the following :

Supports Chrome version 96

So there is a clear mismatch between chromedriver=91.0 and the chrome=96.0.4664.45

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Solution

Ensure that:

• ChromeDriver is updated to current ChromeDriver v96.0 level.
• Chrome is updated to current chrome=96.0.4664.45 (as per chrome=96.0.4664.45 release notes).