selenium webdriver chrome 115 stopped working

I have Chrome 115.0.5790.99 installed on Windows and I use Selenium 4.10.0. In my python code I call service = Service(ChromeDriverManager().install()) and it returns the error ValueError: There is no such driver by url https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE_115.0.5790. I use ChromeDriverManager().install() in order to ensure the use of last stable version of webdriver. How to solve the issue?

My simple code:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
import time 
 
# Install Webdriver
service = Service(ChromeDriverManager().install())
 
# Create Driver Instance
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service)
 
# Get Web Page
driver.get('https://www.crawler-test.com')
time.sleep(5)
driver.quit()

Error output:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\...\test.py", line 7, in <module>
    service = Service(ChromeDriverManager().install())
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\webdriver_manager\chrome.py", line 39, in install
    driver_path = self._get_driver_path(self.driver)
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\webdriver_manager\core\manager.py", line 30, in _get_driver_path
    file = self._download_manager.download_file(driver.get_driver_download_url())
                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\webdriver_manager\drivers\chrome.py", line 40, in get_driver_download_url
    driver_version_to_download = self.get_driver_version_to_download()
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\webdriver_manager\core\driver.py", line 51, in get_driver_version_to_download
    self._driver_to_download_version = self._version if self._version not in (None, "latest") else self.get_latest_release_version()
                                                                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\webdriver_manager\drivers\chrome.py", line 62, in get_latest_release_version
    resp = self._http_client.get(url=latest_release_url)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\webdriver_manager\core\http.py", line 37, in get
    self.validate_response(resp)
  File "C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\webdriver_manager\core\http.py", line 16, in validate_response
    raise ValueError(f"There is no such driver by url {resp.url}")
ValueError: There is no such driver by url https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE_115.0.5790

I tried the following but no success:

• to disable Chrome auto-update but Chrome manage to update itself anyway (https://www.minitool.com/news/disable-automatic-chrome-updates.html and https://www.webnots.com/7-ways-to-disable-automatic-chrome-update-in-windows-and-mac );
• to install Chrome 114 and webdriver for ver 114, than it works till Chrome get updated automatically;
• to follow instructions https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads/version-selection but when generating URL and running link https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE_115.0.5790 I get error No such object: chromedriver/LATEST_RELEASE_115.0.5790

Any suggestion how to solve the issue till webdriver for Chrome 115 will be finally released here https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads

Selenium Manager is now fully included with selenium 4.10.0, so this is all you need:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service

service = Service()
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service, options=options)
# ...
driver.quit()

If the driver isn't found on your system PATH, Selenium Manager will automatically download it.

If you're wondering why you're now seeing this error for ChromeDriverManager, it's because https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads only goes up to version 114 due to driver restructuring by the Chromium Team for the new Chrome-for-Testing.

This worked for me:

 service = Service(ChromeDriverManager(version="114.0.5735.90").install())

Not sure which version of selenium you are using, if you are on latest version say selenium v4.6.0 or higher, you don't have to use third party library such as WebDriverManager to handle browser drivers. Your code can be simplified as below:

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("https://www.crawler-test.com")
print(driver.title)

Result:

Crawler Test Site

Process finished with exit code 0

Update: ChromeWebDriverManager has nothing to do with ensuring stable version of WebDriver, it is used to ensure the correct version of driver binaries (chormedriver.exe) are used as per the browser version in your system. Having said that, now with selenium v4.6.0 or above, selenium's in-built tool SeleniumManager will handle the browser drivers for us. In other words, SeleniumManager will do what WebDriverManager used to do.

Reference: Introducing Selenium Manager

Try this one:
service = Service(ChromeDriverManager(version="114.0.5735.90").install())

I've updated webdriver-manager and didn't face any issues afterwards.

pip install --upgrade webdriver-manager

Until stable webdriver ver 115 is released, the solution is to use test webdriver and test Chrome accordingly. The steps are:

• uninstal current installed webdriver and Chrome from the system;
• find the stable version of webdriver and Chrome here
  https://googlechromelabs.github.io/chrome-for-testing/
• search for binary chrome and chromedriver (version of the webdriver
  and Chrome should be the same!);
• install Chrome (actually you just unzip it and put it to some folder,
  ie: c:\chrome-test-ver);
• set folder c:\chrome-test-ver to the PATH envirounment variable);
• install webdriver.exe (just unzip it and copy to the Python folder,
  ie: C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311);
• run your python script with selenium and it should work.

Solution for those, who are facing problems after 26-07-2023 in the testing application using selenium 4.8.0, actually on 26-07-2023 chrome automatically updated to Version 115.0.5790.110 and its web driver is not uploaded yet anywhere, the most reliable site https://googlechromelabs.github.io/chrome-for-testing/#stable and https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads, but nowhere web driver available.

Good News is that I found the solution and my codes are working perfectly my testing tools are also working fine like the old ones. here are the codes for you. Before going to run these codes following steps need to be done:

Step - 01. pip uninstall selenium
Step - 02. pip install selenium==4.10.0
Step - 03. pip show selenium (Make sure the selenium version 4.10.0) is installed.
Step - 04. pip install webdriver_manager

##Codes in Python/selenium 4.10.0

from time import sleep
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service(ChromeDriverManager().install()), 
options=options)

url = 'https://www.google.com/'
driver.get(url)
driver.maximize_window()
sleep(10)

if anyone wants to stop the automatic update of Chrome, please feel free to ask me, I can also give you the solution for the same.

To avoid the need to manually update to the latest version you can try:

import urllib.request
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager

try:
    service = Service(ChromeDriverManager().install())
except ValueError:
    latest_chromedriver_version_url = "https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE"
    latest_chromedriver_version = urllib.request.urlopen(latest_chromedriver_version_url).read().decode('utf-8')
    service = Service(ChromeDriverManager(version=latest_chromedriver_version).install())

options = Options()
options.add_argument('--headless') #optional.
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service, options=options)
driver.get(url)

From Chrome v115 you will need to install "Google Chrome for Testing" https://developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-for-testing to run any automated tests locally on Chrome.

The bug is linked to webdriver-manager version.

Please update webdriver-manager to lastest version using:

pip install --upgrade webdriver-manager

It got fixed in version 3.8.6 (13th April 2023)

> Fixed version download logic for Chrome/Edge:
>
>- if version="latest" - downloads LATEST_RELEASE for Chrome/Chromiums and LATEST_STABLE for Edge;
>- if version=x.x.x - downloads x.x.x;
>- if version is None - tries to determine installed browser version, and if fail - downloads like "latest" - LATEST_RELEASE.

This issue arose because starting from version 115, ChromeDriver release process is integrated with that of Chrome, i.e, it will be available at:
the Chrome for Testing (CfT) availability dashboard.

If you want a convenient json: CfT JSON endpoints

You could write your method to download the json from the link mentioned above and download the driver for your version of Chrome.

Reference: ChromeDriver - For versions 115 and newer

Solution :

In the command prompt or on pycharm terminal: type

pip uninstall webdriver_manager
Click on Y (yes)
Then type pip install webdriver_manager

I was running Selenium 3.11 and upgrading it to v4.11.2 resolved the issues.

For Windows, run this command to upgrade the version.

pip install selenium --upgrade

I also added these statements to my Selenium script to know which versions the system is operating on -

browser_version = driver.capabilities['browserVersion']
driver_version = driver.capabilities['chrome']['chromedriverVersion'].split(' ')[0]

print ("Selenium version:", selenium.__version__)
print("browser version", browser_version)
print("driver version", driver_version)

The solution given by IDevFS was amazing for automatic updates before version 115:

import urllib.request
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager

try:
    service = Service(ChromeDriverManager().install())
except ValueError:
    latest_chromedriver_version_url = "https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE"
    latest_chromedriver_version = urllib.request.urlopen(latest_chromedriver_version_url).read().decode('utf-8')
    service = Service(ChromeDriverManager(version=latest_chromedriver_version).install())

options = Options()
options.add_argument('--headless') #optional.
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service, options=options)
driver.get(url)

However, haven't find yet a way to make automatic updates with the cf JSON Endpoints. Can anyone help in this regard?