selenium.common.exceptions.SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: Chrome version must be between 70 and 73 with ChromeDriver

Question

I am trying to create a webcrawler using Selenium, but I get this error when I try to create the webdriver object.

selenium.common.exceptions.SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: Chrome version must be between 70 and 73 (Driver info: chromedriver=2.45.615291 (ec3682e3c9061c10f26ea9e5cdcf3c53f3f74387),platform=Windows NT 6.1.7601 SP1 x86_64) 

I downloaded the latest version of chromedriver (2.45) which requires Chrome 70-73. My current Chrome version is 68.0.3440.106 (Official Build) (64-bit), which is the latest. I tried downloading an "older" chrome version (71) and when I tried installing it, the installer indicated that I had a newer version already installed.

There doesn't seem to be any previous Chromedriver releases available for download, even though the website says there is. I couldn't find them.

I don't quite understand how version 71 is older than 68?

Is there a Chrome version newer than 68 actually available, or an older version of chromedriver i can use with Chrome 68?

Does anyone have any other suggestions?

This is the code that i'm trying to execute:

import time from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys user = 'XXXXXXX' pwd = 'XXXXXXX' chromedriver = "...\...\...\chromedriver.exe" driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=chromedriver) # Error occurs at this line driver.get("http://www.facebook.com") assert "Facebook" in driver.title time.sleep(5) # So i can see something! elem = driver.find_element_by_id("email") elem.send_keys(user) time.sleep(5) # So i can see something! elem = driver.find_element_by_id("pass") elem.send_keys(pwd) time.sleep(5) # So i can see something! elem.send_keys(Keys.RETURN) driver.close() 

Answer 1

For me, upgrading the driver did the trick. Just run:

brew cask upgrade chromedriver 

and then try running your test again. Hope it helps!

Answer 2

You can find the older versions of chrome driver here.

I dont think it is a good idea to install chrome from sources other than the official channel and installation of the same can cause issues. See if the google update service is running in your PC. This will automatically update the chrome version to latest. Mine is running Version 71.0.3578.98 (Official Build) (64-bit).