How to run Selenium ChromeDriver from python3 on wsl2?

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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?

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python-3.xseleniumgoogle-chromeselenium-chromedriverwsl-2
Did you find the solution for this? - Luís Costa
@LuísCosta You mentioned elsewhere that you tried this link from the answer below. What happened when you attempted to install the Linux version of Chrome? I would recommend following up on that path, since as I mentioned in the other comment, the localhost problem mentioned in that link is going to stop you from doing it the WSL1 way (which is what both you and this OP seem to be trying). As a possible alternative, is there a way to change the host/port that Selenium is attempting to connect to? - NotTheDr01ds
I created a fresh copy of WSL (to get rid of possible misconfiguration), followed the link below and had no success, no matter what I try I always end up with: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally. (unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist) (The process started from chrome location /usr/bin/google-chrome is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed Already discarded the previous approach because of the problem you pointed out :) - Luís Costa
@LuísCosta Don't forget to tag me in replies - I don't get notified otherwise (unless it's my question or answer). Only remembered to check back after our last exchange on your other question! Let me see if I can set it up. It's been about a year since I tried ChromeDriver on WSL2, and I can't remember where I ended up. - NotTheDr01ds

3 Answers

2
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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
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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.

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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