How to fix ChromeDriver SessionNotCreatedException in Google Colab?

Question

I was asked to use a python web scraping script that was created in Google Colab, but I'm getting the following error:

SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 90 Current browser version is 117.0.5938.88 with binary path /root/.cache/selenium/chrome/linux64/117.0.5938.88/chrome

Am I correct in thinking that because Google Colab is a hosted coding platform that my local chromedriver version is irrelevant? How can I fix this?

If it helps, I believe this is the function causing the error...

def web_driver():
  options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
  options.add_argument("--verbose")
  options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
  options.add_argument('--headless')
  options.add_argument('--disable-gpu')
  options.add_argument("--window-size=1920, 1200")
  options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
  driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
  return driver

Answer 1

You might be able use a different driver manager, SeleniumBase, to get around the issue.

(pip install seleniumbase, and run with python)

Here's a simple example:

from seleniumbase import Driver

driver = Driver(browser="chrome")
driver.get("https://www.google.com")
driver.quit()

Here's your updated script, with the options you specified. Other options, (such as --no-sandbox and --disable-gpu), are already set by default.)

from seleniumbase import Driver

def web_driver():
    driver = Driver(browser="chrome", headless=True)
    driver.set_window_size(1920, 1200)
    return driver