selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Failed to create Chrome process with ChromeDriver Chrome with Selenium Python

Question

I am trying to click a button using selenium so I made it find the element with the xpath since i couldn't find the id . EDIT: I didn't think the rest of the code had anything to do with it but i added it just in case

This is The Code

import requests
import os
import selenium
from selenium import webdriver
os.system("cls")
print("                                         ")
print("______________     _____________         ________________")
print("| |         | |    |  |       | |        |______________|")
print("| |________ //     |  |  __   | |               | |")
print("| |________ \\\\     |  | |__|  | |               | |")
print("| |          | |   |  |       | |               | |")
print("| |__________| |   |__|_______|_|               |_|")

print("\u001b[34m Welcome To Movie Downloader")
print("\u001b[31m Please Make Sure To Not Put Every First Letter In Every Word Capital And Also Make Sure To Put Hyphens Instead Of Spaces Between Words, Also Put The Date The Movie Was Made")
print("\u001b[32m For Example: spider-man-homecoming-2017")


def Bot():
    URL = input("\u001b[34m What Movie Do You Want To Download:\n")
    r = requests.get("https://bila.egy.best/movie/" + URL + "/?ref=search-p1")
    if r.status_code == 200:
        print("\u001b[32m The Url Is Valid | Movie Has Been Found")
    else:
        print("\u001b[31m The Url Is Invalid")
    print("\u001b[0m")
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\chromedriver.exe')
    driver.get("https://bila.egy.best/movie/" + URL + "/?ref=search-p1")
    driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id=watch_dl]/table/tbody/tr[2]/td[4]/a[1]").click()
Answer = input("Would You Like To Bot?")
if Answer == "Yes" or "yes" or "sure" or "Sure":
    Bot()

This Is The Error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "Movie_Download.py", line 32, in <module>
    Bot()
  File "Movie_Download.py", line 27, in Bot
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:\chromedriver.exe")
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Python37_64\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py", line 81, in __init__
    desired_capabilities=desired_capabilities)
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Python37_64\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 157, in __init__
    self.start_session(capabilities, browser_profile)
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Python37_64\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 252, in start_session
    response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters)
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Python37_64\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 321, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Python37_64\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Failed to create a Chrome process.

Which version of Chrome and ChromeDriver do you have? This sounds like a mismatch between browser and driver versions. — Greg Burghardt
– Greg Burghardt, Commented Dec 26, 2019 at 14:49
i have chromedriver version ChromeDriver 79.0.3945.36 and chrome Version 79.0.3945.88 — user12601652
– user12601652, Commented Dec 26, 2019 at 14:56
If running chrome as an admin solves the problem, maybe change the folder where chrome is installed, or change file permissions so running as admin is not necessary? — Greg Burghardt
– Greg Burghardt, Commented Dec 26, 2019 at 17:26

undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-26 16:03:08Z

6

You need to take care of a couple of things:

While passing the absolute location of chromedriver binary use a single forward slash along with the raw i.e. r switch. So the effective line of code will be:
```
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\chromedriver.exe')
```
Execute your @Test as non-administrator / non-root user.

Update

Another possible reason is Chrome is not installed in the default location as per the specification:

Solution

There can be two approaches to solve this situation:

Uninstall Chrome and reinstall Chrome at default location.

Use binary_location property to point to the chrome binary location.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

options = Options()
options.binary_location = "C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options, executable_path="C:/Utility/BrowserDrivers/chromedriver.exe", )
driver.get('http://google.com/')

edited Dec 26, 2019 at 16:03

answered Dec 26, 2019 at 15:38

undetected Selenium

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user12601652 Over a year ago

`` driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\chromedriver.exe') `` Still same error

undetected Selenium Over a year ago

@mohamedelgamal How about non-administrator / non-root user?

user12601652 Over a year ago

yup non administrator command prompt and it still doesnt work

undetected Selenium Over a year ago

@mohamedelgamal Checkout the updated answer and let me know the status.

user12601652 Over a year ago

i checked if chrome is in the default location and then i realized that i don't even have the AppData file

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azro · Accepted Answer · 2021-08-04 09:26:11Z

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If you are still getting this error then try to reinstall your chrome

It worked for me, I got the same issue, I tried all of the ways but still cannot fix it but after I reinstall my chrome browser It Worked!

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Nazim Kerimbekov · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-26 15:04:04Z

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you have to edit

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:\chromedriver.exe")

to

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:\\chromedriver.exe")

you miss \

If you get the same error, try running as administrator

or

move chromedriver.exe to other path like c:/seleniumdriver/chromedriver.exe"and edit executable_path

edited Dec 26, 2019 at 15:04

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6 Comments

joonghyup cha Over a year ago

do you have chromedriver.exe? chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/80.0.3987.16/…

joonghyup cha Over a year ago

how about try driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:/chromedriver.exe")

user12601652 Over a year ago

still doesn't work i think it doesn't have anything to do with the slash

joonghyup cha Over a year ago

do you have same error selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Failed to create a Chrome process. like this?

joonghyup cha Over a year ago

If you get the same error, try running as administrator or move chromedriver.exe and edit executable_path

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