Python/selenium/chromedriver Timeoutexception

I'm in the process of scraping pdfs from a website using selenium and chrome webdriver. I use the following, pulling the site from a list: driver.get(site) source = driver.page_so

Solution 1:

This error message...

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 127, in <module>
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 323, in get self.execute(Command.GET, {'url': url})
.
selenium.common.exceptions.TimeoutException: Message: timeout
(Session info: chrome=63.0.3239.84)
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.33.506092 
(733a02544d189eeb751fe0d7ddca79a0ee28cce4),platform=Linux 4.10.0-40-generic x86_64)

...implies that the webdriver instance cannot establish a connection with the siteurl and timeout occurs.

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

• You are using ChromeDriver v2.33
• Release Notes of ChromeDriver v2.33 clearly mentions the following :

Supports Chrome v60-62

• You are using chrome=63.0
• Selenium Version is unknown to us.

So there is a clear mismatch between the ChromeDriver v2.33 and the Chrome Browser v63.0 you are using. Hence ChromeDriver is unable to spawn the new Chrome Browser process.

Solution

• Update ChromeDriver to recent v2.35 level.
• Upgrade Chrome to stable Chrome v64.x levels. (as per ChromeDriver v2.35 release notes)
• Upgrade Selenium to current levels Version 3.9.1.
• Clean and Re-Build your project through your IDE.
• Clear the Browser Cache.
• Run CCleaner tool to wipe off all the OS chores before and after execution of your Test Suite.
• If your Web Browser base version is too old, uninstall the Web Browser through Revo Uninstaller with Moderate Scan and install a recent GA Released version of the Web Browser.
• Execute your Tests.