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 faced this issue due to mismatch of chromedriver and chrome version. I followed the below steps to resolve my issue:

1) First, find out which version of Chrome you are using. My Chrome version was 77.0.3865.90.
2) Take the Chrome version number, remove the last part, and append the result to URL "https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE_". For example, with Chrome version 77.0.3865.90, you'd get a URL "https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE_77.0.3865".
3) Use the URL created in the last step to retrieve the version of ChromeDriver to use. For example, the above URL will get your a file containing "77.0.3865.40". (The actual number may change in the future, of course.)
4) I then did :
  webdriverdownloader chrome:77.0.3865.40 on my mac terminal.

After this your Chromedriver and Chrome version must be in sync and the issue should be fixed.