I am aware of very similar questions having been asked already but even after a few hours of googling, researching and comparing I can't figure out what the problem is. My ultimate goal is to do some web scraping with Python using selenium but for now I can't even get the webdriver to start. This is the code and the error message that I've got so far:
$ python Python 2.7.6 (default, Oct 26 2016, 20:30:19) [GCC 4.8.4] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from pyvirtualdisplay import Display >>> from selenium import webdriver >>> >>> display = Display(visible=0, size=(1024, 768)) >>> display.start() <Display cmd_param=['Xvfb', '-br', '-nolisten', 'tcp', '-screen', '0', '1024x768x24', ':1069'] cmd=['Xvfb', '-br', '-nolisten', 'tcp', '-screen', '0', '1024x768x24', ':1069'] oserror=None return_code=None stdout="None" stderr="None" timeout_happened=False> >>> d = webdriver.Chrome() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 62, in __init__ self.service.start() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 96, in start self.assert_process_still_running() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 109, in assert_process_still_running % (self.path, return_code) selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Service chromedriver unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 1 The chromedriver version is 2.30 and is located at:
$ ll /usr/local/bin/chromedriver -rwxr-xr-x 1 stefan stefan 8475456 Jun 7 15:53 /usr/local/bin/chromedriver Since it's in /usr/local/bin I do not need to specify the path when instantiating the webdriver as in d = webdriver.Chrome("/path/to/chromedriver").
Before I was able to run above code I installed google Chrome browser, xvfb, pyvirtualdisplay and selenium. The commands I used where:
sudo apt-get install libxss1 libappindicator1 libindicator7 wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i google-chrome*.deb sudo apt-get install -f sudo apt-get install xvfb wget -N http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.30/chromedriver_linux64.zip unzip chromedriver_linux64.zip sudo mv chromedriver /usr/local/bin sudo pip install pyvirtualdisplay selenium So, I have the latest versions of all the software. Any help as to what the solution to my problem could be is greatly appreciated. Thank you very much in advance.