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donkeyshark
donkeyshark

Reputation: 111

Problems with RSelenium and ChromeDriver - "This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version X"

I'm having a difficult time getting RSelenium to work with my ChromeDriver in R v4.1.2. Initially, I installed the ChromeDriver v97 because I had Chrome v97 running on my Mac as my browser. However, despite installing the v97 ChromeDriver, I would get an error every time that read

Selenium message:session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 98

So I did some research and everything I read said I could either upgrade Google Chrome or downgrade my driver. I tried both. I uninstalled the driver and installed an earlier version (v96) but it still gave me the exact same error. Then I tried upgrading my Chrome browser, but it said it was up to date and that no upgrade was available. So I just figured I'd wait until v98 was ready to install. As soon as v98 was out, I upgraded my browser to Chrome v98 and Selenium with the ChromeDriver ran smoothly without issues. I haven't changed anything since. It ran for a couple of days, but now, all of a sudden, I'm getting the error again but now it says

 "This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 99"

But I have not upgraded my ChromeDriver since installing the v97 driver. It seems as though the driver must have some code in it that checks what the most current version of Chrome is (even if that is a Beta release) and requires that I have it, regardless of which driver or browser I have installed. Has anyone come across this issue before? Any idea of how I can resolve this? I cannot upgrade to v99, it's not available yet, and uninstalling my ChromeDriver and reinstalling a previous version doesn't seem to do anything either.

Thank you in advance.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3331

Answers (2)

user2554330
user2554330

Reputation: 44868

The Mac has problems because there are two architectures (Intel and M1), and the code that loads the RSelenium driver hasn't been updated since the M1 came out.

This patch https://github.com/ropensci/wdman/pull/26 fixed the issue for me, working on an Intel Mac. You should also see this issue: https://github.com/ropensci/RSelenium/issues/221, which offers some code to sequentially try drivers until it finds one that works.

Upvotes: 1

Nad Pat
Nad Pat

Reputation: 3173

To know the chrome version use,

binman::list_versions("chromedriver")

$win32
 [1] "85.0.4183.87"  "86.0.4240.22"  "87.0.4280.20"  "87.0.4280.88"  "88.0.4324.27"  "91.0.4472.101" "91.0.4472.19"  "92.0.4515.107" "92.0.4515.43"

Then you can try the versions which works for you,

library(RSelenium)
driver <- rsDriver(browser = "chrome",port = 9537L, chromever = "96.0.4664.45")

or else you can use firefox,

driver = rsDriver(port = 4841L, browser = c("firefox"))

Upvotes: 3

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