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Service chromedriver unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 6 in google colab


I am trying to run Selenium on Colab, but an error occurs. It ran well a few weeks ago, but an error occurred suddenly today at the last line of code. Please, what should I do?

# install chromium, its driver, and selenium
!apt-get update
!apt install chromium-chromedriver
!cp /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromedriver /usr/bin
!pip install selenium
# set options to be headless, ..
from selenium import webdriver
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--headless')
options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
# open it, go to a website, and get results
wd = webdriver.Chrome('chromedriver',options=options)
wd.get("https://www.website.com")
print(wd.page_source)  # results

My error message below in google colab

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Solution

  • I found the solution :

    %%shell
    # Ubuntu no longer distributes chromium-browser outside of snap
    #
    # Proposed solution: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1204571/how-to-                        
    install-chromium-without-snap
    
    # Add debian buster
    cat > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list <<'EOF'
    deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/debian-buster.gpg]             
    http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main
    deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/debian-buster-updates.gpg]             
    http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates main
    deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/debian-security-buster.gpg]     
    http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main
    EOF
    
    # Add keys
    apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys DCC9EFBF77E11517
    apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 648ACFD622F3D138
    apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 112695A0E562B32A
    
    apt-key export 77E11517 | gpg --dearmour -o /usr/share/keyrings/debian- 
    buster.gpg
    apt-key export 22F3D138 | gpg --dearmour -o /usr/share/keyrings/debian- 
    buster-updates.gpg
    apt-key export E562B32A | gpg --dearmour -o /usr/share/keyrings/debian- 
    security-buster.gpg
    
    # Prefer debian repo for chromium* packages only
    # Note the double-blank lines between entries
    cat > /etc/apt/preferences.d/chromium.pref << 'EOF'
    Package: *
    Pin: release a=eoan
    Pin-Priority: 500
    
    
    Package: *
    Pin: origin "deb.debian.org"
    Pin-Priority: 300
    
    
    Package: chromium*
    Pin: origin "deb.debian.org"
    Pin-Priority: 700
    EOF
    
    # Install chromium and chromium-driver
    apt-get update
    apt-get install chromium chromium-driver
    
    # Install selenium
    pip install selenium
    

    Then :

    from selenium import webdriver
    from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
    
    url = "http://example.com" 
    options = Options()
    options.add_argument("--headless")
    options.add_argument("--no-sandbox")
    
    options.headless = True
    
    driver = webdriver.Chrome("/usr/bin/chromedriver", options=options)
    
    driver.get(url)
    print(driver.title)
    driver.quit()
    

    https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1JGKX0IafYw00vwCiOWphUBDBSCWCw7GZ?usp=sharing