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?

wsl-2 selenium-chromedriver selenium google-chrome python-3.x
3 Answers

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

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