cannot find Chrome binary error.

[dimaklepikov]

After updating to 4.0.0 version on Mac OS (arm64) , the following code throws an error:

# Manager
from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service as ChromeService


def chrome(version=None):
    """Creates driver instance of Chrome"""

    path = ChromeDriverManager(driver_version=version).install()
    return webdriver.Chrome(
        service=ChromeService(executable_path=path)
    )


print(chrome())

### Ouutput:
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: cannot find Chrome binary

TEMPORARY SOLUTION:
Passing a path to a Chrome browser binary itself works, but that's not a ChromeDriver instance.
E.g:
path = "/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome"

What may cause this issue?

[ndepaola]

could this be related to this selenium bug? SeleniumHQ/selenium#12381

[Whysman2]

If you're wondering why you're now seeing this error for ChromeDriverManager, it's because https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads only goes up to version 114 due to driver restructuring by the Chromium Team for the new Chrome-for-Testing.

Webdriver-manager needs to be updated so it can read the new location for drivers.

[gregoriopellegrino]

Same error here. Any quick solution?

[fecaridade]

@gregoriopellegrino

I made a temporary solution in my code and managed to use it

driver = webdriver.Chrome(
options=options,
service=ChromeService(
ChromeDriverManager(version="114.0.5735.90").install()
),
)

passing the argument to "version" in ChromeDriverManager.

i'm using:

webdriver-manager==3.8.6
selenium==4.7.2

[vickvick3110]

I am currently using this, which works well on my Mac with the ARM M1 processor. Specifically, I am using Chrome version 115. I hope this tool will be up and running again soon.

from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service

option = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
option.add_argument("start-maximized")

driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service(ChromeDriverManager("114.0.5735.16").install()), options=option)

[cKurultayKalkan]

+1 Same here. Downgrade back to 3.9.1 solved the issue for now.

[SergeyPirogov]

You have to put chrome browser path using ChromeOptions, see example here

webdriver_manager/tests/test_chrome_driver.py

Line 54 in 18268c1

def test_chrome_manager_with_selenium():

[leomm20]

You just could do this:

self.driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options,
                                           service=ChromeService(ChromeDriverManager(version="latest").install()))

It will take the last version of the repository.

An improvement could be comparing the version of the browser with the latest:
core\utils.py
line 226:

        try:
            latest = requests.get('https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE').text
            if version > latest:
                version = latest
        except:
            pass
        return version

[jamesbcd]

You have to put chrome browser path using ChromeOptions, see example here

webdriver_manager/tests/test_chrome_driver.py

Line 54 in 18268c1

def test_chrome_manager_with_selenium():

@SergeyPirogov, is there an easy and reliable way to set the chrome browser path without an extra dependency like pybrowsers?