SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 81

I am currently new to robot framework.I am currently using latest window version of chrome and chromedriver which is 80 but when i try to run the test it gives the message "SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 81" in pycharm but currently beta version of 81 is only available. I have tried uninstalling everthing and reinstalling it again but nothing works can anyone help me with this.Thank you!

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Solution 1:

I solved these kinds of problems using the webdrive manager.

You can automatically use the correct chromedriver by using the webdrive-manager. Install the webdrive-manager:

pip install webdriver-manager

Then use the driver in python as follows

from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager

driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())

This answer is taken from https://stackoverflow.com/a/52878725/10741023

Solution 2:

Do below steps :

Check the version of chrome browser.
download chromedriver of same version from https://sites.google.com/chromium.org/driver/home
Give correct path in the pycharm and run the code.

Solution 3:

I got the same message on MacOS:

"selenium.common.exceptions.SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 81"

Then I run this command, it's gone:

# Homebrew 3
brew upgrade chromedriver

# Homebrew < 3
brew cask upgrade chromedriver

Solution 4:

This error message...

SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 81

...implies that the ChromeDriver v81 was unable to initiate/spawn a new Browsing Context i.e. Chrome Browser where is version is other then 81.0.

Your main issue is the incompatibility between the version of the binaries you are using as follows:

You mentioned about using chromedriver=80 and chrome=80 but somehow while your program execution ChromeDriver v 81.0 is used.
So, it's quite evident your have chromedriver=81.0 present within your system and is present within the system PATH variable which gets invoked while you:
```
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
```

Solution

There are two solutions:

Either you upgrade chrome to Chrome Version 81.0 level. (as per ChromeDriver v81.0 release notes)

Or you can override the default chromedriver v81.0 binary location with chromedriver v80.0 binary location as follows:

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\path\to\chromedriver.exe')
driver.get('http://google.com/')

Reference

You can find a couple of relevant discussions in:

How to work with a specific version of ChromeDriver while Chrome Browser gets updated automatically through Python selenium
selenium.common.exceptions.SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 80
Ubuntu: selenium.common.exceptions: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 79

Solution 5:

Chrome version is updating everyday so you need use exact chromedriver version according chrome version https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads in this website you can download chromedrivers