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Ñhosko
Ñhosko

Reputation: 795

How to run Selenium ChromeDriver from python3 on wsl2?

I'm trying to headless open Chrome from WSL2 (Ubuntu 18.04) using python 3.

On Windows I'm using Chrome 84. I've downloaed Chrome Driver 84 from ChromeDriver - WebDriver for Chrome. And installed the .exe under C:\ChromeDriver\chromedriver.exe

I've set a symbolic link from my Windows Chrome and ChromeDriver to WSL2:

sudo ln -s '/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe' /usr/bin/google-chrome
sudo ln -s /mnt/c/ChromeDriver/chromedriver.exe /usr/bin/chromedriver

Both Chromes are set to be executable by any user on WSL2.

On WSL2, when I enter in the console:

google-chrome --use-gl=swiftshader

Chrome starts on windows.

Here is my script:

from selenium import webdriver
browser = webdriver.Chrome()    # fails
# browser = webdriver.Chrome('/usr/bin/chromedriver') fails
# browser = webdriver.Chrome('/mnt/c/ChromeDriver/chromedriver.exe') fails
browser.get('https://stackoverflow.com')

It fails with error:

raise WebDriverException("Can not connect to the Service %s" % self.path) selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Can not connect to the Service chromedriver (* OR /usr/bin/chromedriver OR /mnt/c/ChromeDriver/chromedriver.exe depending on how I start webdriver.Chrome())

How to be able to start Chrome Driver from WSL2 using python3 and selenium?

Upvotes: 24

Views: 32193

Answers (5)

siddu
siddu

Reputation: 1

also add the chromedriver location to PATH variables, this makes sure driver is available globally.

Upvotes: 0

pig black
pig black

Reputation: 1

https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/grid/getting_started/

You can use grid to solve this problem

In windows:

  1. install the driver and config the path
  2. install the java11 or higher installed
  3. install the selenium-server

In wsl2-Ubuntu20.04:

  1. pip install selenium

Upvotes: -1

Ruben Santana
Ruben Santana

Reputation: 591

For those who have not yet found the solution. Follow this tutorial: chromedriver in WSL2 Many are similar, but what did the trick for me was to place the chromedriver in the corresponding group and user:

sudo chown root:root /usr/bin/chromedriver

Upvotes: 8

kmpatel100
kmpatel100

Reputation: 108

you can install chromedrive by given code.

wget -N http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.26/chromedriver_linux64.zip
unzip chromedriver_linux64.zip
chmod +x chromedriver
sudo mv -f chromedriver /usr/local/share/chromedriver
sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/chromedriver /usr/local/bin/chromedriver
sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/chromedriver /usr/bin/chromedriver

you do need chrome if you don't have it use given code.

wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add -
echo 'deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable

I might missing something so, please see reference site. reference: https://www.srcmake.com/home/selenium-python-chromedriver-ubuntu

After you get selenium and chrome driver you can use given code for headless chrome. Also, there is one package call "chromedriver_autoinstaller" I am not sure it is working on ubuntu or not but it's great package if you are using same script everyday and your browser is on auto-update.

code for headless chrome:

#for headless browser use this arguments
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
chrome_options.add_argument("--window-size=1920x1080")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options)

put necessary arguments in webdriver.Chrome if you are using path and other conditions.

Upvotes: 3

Bibelo
Bibelo

Reputation: 229

I don't think it's possible. You're under Linux here, so you can't used a Windows executable.

I tried using the headless version of Chromium, but it would not work, because (it seems) Q

Upvotes: 0

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