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.

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Answer 1

I encountered the same problem. I tried installing a downgraded version of Chrome (current stable was 74 and the driver required chrome version must be between 70-73) but I wasn't able to do so.

I found another way. This link will show you which version is compatible with your current google-chrome (to know your version the command is google-chrome --version)

This link will guide you as to how to install chrome driver with zip file. The commands are:

cd
wget 
unzip chromedriver_linux64.zip
sudo mv chromedriver /usr/bin/chromedriver
sudo chown root:root /usr/bin/chromedriver
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/chromedriver

In case the error comes No such file or directory: '/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromedriver' OR the same error persists

Repeat the above procedure with the path /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromedriver instead of /usr/bin/chromedriver

For me, google-chrome version 74 worked with ChromeDriver version 73