SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 96 Current browser version is 98.0

Question

Error tracelogs:

DevTools listening on ws://127.0.0.1:54791/devtools/browser/6f264bcc-d44a-40d9-b6cf- 
8b1655c97ccd
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\Users\alsgn\OneDrive\desktop\mypython\getselenium\dc\findbulletins.py", line 11, in 
<module>
browser = webdriver.Chrome()
File "C:\Users\alsgn\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site- 
packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py", line 70, in __init__
super(WebDriver, self).__init__(DesiredCapabilities.CHROME['browserName'], "goog",
File "C:\Users\alsgn\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site- 
packages\selenium\webdriver\chromium\webdriver.py", line 93, in __init__
RemoteWebDriver.__init__(
File "C:\Users\alsgn\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site- 
packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 268, in __init__
self.start_session(capabilities, browser_profile)
File "C:\Users\alsgn\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site- 
packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 359, in start_session
response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters)
File "C:\Users\alsgn\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site- 
packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 424, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File "C:\Users\alsgn\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site- 
packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 247, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: This 
version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 96
Current browser version is 98.0.4758.82 with binary path C:\Program 
Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe
Stacktrace:
Backtrace:
    Ordinal0 [0x00FF6903+2517251]
    Ordinal0 [0x00F8F8E1+2095329]
    Ordinal0 [0x00E92848+1058888]
    Ordinal0 [0x00EB0B9D+1182621]
    Ordinal0 [0x00EACA60+1165920]
    Ordinal0 [0x00EAA2CF+1155791]
    Ordinal0 [0x00EDAAAF+1354415]
    Ordinal0 [0x00EDA71A+1353498]
    Ordinal0 [0x00ED639B+1336219]
    Ordinal0 [0x00EB27A7+1189799]
    Ordinal0 [0x00EB3609+1193481]
    GetHandleVerifier [0x01185904+1577972]
    GetHandleVerifier [0x01230B97+2279047]
    GetHandleVerifier [0x01086D09+534521]
    GetHandleVerifier [0x01085DB9+530601]
    Ordinal0 [0x00F94FF9+2117625]
    Ordinal0 [0x00F998A8+2136232]
    Ordinal0 [0x00F999E2+2136546]
    Ordinal0 [0x00FA3541+2176321]
    BaseThreadInitThunk [0x755AFA29+25]
    RtlGetAppContainerNamedObjectPath [0x775C7A9E+286]
    RtlGetAppContainerNamedObjectPath [0x775C7A6E+238]

The code that I ran was okay in 2 days ago, but now, the code have been showed this error. Please say how to solve this problem. I wonder why it ran well before.

Answer 1

I had same problem, what you should do is to just head on to https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads and see the version of your browser and download accordingly, just replace the chromedriver.exe (old) with the new downloaded, it will work fine.

Answer 2

This error message...

selenium.common.exceptions.SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 96
Current browser version is 98.0.4758.82 with binary path C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe

...implies that the ChromeDriver was unable to initiate/spawn a new Browsing Context i.e. google-chrome 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 chrome=98.0.4758.82
• Release Notes of ChromeDriver v98.0.4758.80 clearly mentions the following :

Supports Chrome version 98

• But you are using chromedriver=96.0
• Release Notes of chromedriver=96.0.4664.45 clearly mentions the following :

Supports Chrome version 96

So there is a clear mismatch between chromedriver=96.0 and the chrome=96.0.4664.45

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Solution

Ensure that:

• ChromeDriver is updated to current ChromeDriver v98.0.4758.80 level.
• Chrome Browser is updated to current chrome=98 (as per chromedriver=98.0.4758.80 release notes).