Run Python Selenium webdriver in ssh

Question

I want to run selenium webdriver in a remote server. I just tried a really simple script:

from pyvirtualdisplay import Display
from selenium import webdriver
display = Display(visible=0, size=(800,600))
display.start()
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("http://www.google.com")
print browser.title
browser.quit()
display.stop()

The error is:

File "1.py", line 7, in <module>
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
File "/home/shunyang/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 61, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "/home/shunyang/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 85, in start
self.assert_process_still_running()
File "/home/shunyang/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 98, in assert_process_still_running
% (self.path, return_code)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException:
Message: Service chromedriver unexpectedly exited. 
Status code was: 1 

I wonder what is wrong with my setup and how to solve this issue. Thanks!

Answer 1

I had the same problem. After trying many things, updating chrome solved it :)

sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable