python selenium: WebDriverException: Message: chrome not reachable

Question

I am facing the issue with python selenium I entered the code below, it worked well few minutes ago, but now it doesn't work saying chrome not reachable Please help!

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome('/Users/Danny/Downloads/chromedriver_win32/chromedriver')
driver.get('https://google.com')

results

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WebDriverException                        Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-36-6bcc3a6d3d05> in <module>()
----> 1 driver.get('https://google.com')

~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py in get(self, url)
    322         Loads a web page in the current browser session.
    323         """
--> 324         self.execute(Command.GET, {'url': url})
    325 
    326     @property

~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py in execute(self, driver_command, params)
    310         response = self.command_executor.execute(driver_command, params)
    311         if response:
--> 312             self.error_handler.check_response(response)
    313             response['value'] = self._unwrap_value(
    314                 response.get('value', None))

~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py in check_response(self, response)
    240                 alert_text = value['alert'].get('text')
    241             raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace, alert_text)
--> 242         raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
    243 
    244     def _value_or_default(self, obj, key, default):

WebDriverException: Message: chrome not reachable
  (Session info: chrome=64.0.3282.140)
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.35.528161 (5b82f2d2aae0ca24b877009200ced9065a772e73),platform=Windows NT 10.0.16299 x86_64)

Edit

It does work when I try this code, but I don't know why it suddenly works Can someone explain this code?

driver=webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:/Users\Danny\Downloads\chromedriver_win32\chromedriver.exe")

for i in range(1,10):
driver.get('https://google.com')

Answer 1

The error you are seeing gives us some hint as follows :

WebDriverException                        Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-36-6bcc3a6d3d05> in <module>()
----> 1 driver.get('https://google.com')

Here are some observations and remedies :

• First of all, I would like you to look back at the exact absolute path of the ChromeDriver binary and my guess is instead of :

  /Users/Users/Downloads/chromedriver_win32/chromedriver
  

  It should have been :

  /Users/Downloads/chromedriver_win32/chromedriver
  

• Moreover, a better way to pass the location of the ChromeDriver binary would be to pass the argument executable_path along as well, so the line would be :

  driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'/Users/Users/Downloads/chromedriver_win32/chromedriver')
  

• Finally, whenever you invoke get() method to open an URL try to pass the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) as follows :

  driver.get('https://www.google.co.in')