Instapy: instapy.instapy.InstaPyError: ensure chromedriver is installed

[tibor]

I get the same error as in #2179, #2618.

Current Behavior

ERROR [2018-08-01 21:11:58] [username]  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.)
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.41.578700 (2f1ed5f9343c13f73144538f15c00b370eda6706),platform=Linux 2.6.32-042stab120.6 x86_64)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/InstaPy/instapy/instapy.py", line 302, in set_selenium_local_session
    chrome_options=chrome_options)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 69, in __init__
    desired_capabilities=desired_capabilities)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 90, in __init__
    self.start_session(desired_capabilities, browser_profile)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 177, in start_session
    response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, capabilities)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 236, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 192, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
WebDriverException: 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.)
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.41.578700 (2f1ed5f9343c13f73144538f15c00b370eda6706),platform=Linux 2.6.32-042stab120.6 x86_64)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "username_de.py", line 11, in <module>
    InstaPy(username='username',password='Password', nogui=True)\
  File "/home/user/InstaPy/instapy/instapy.py", line 195, in __init__
    self.set_selenium_local_session()
  File "/home/user/InstaPy/instapy/instapy.py", line 306, in set_selenium_local_session
    Settings.chromedriver_location))
instapy.instapy.InstaPyError: ensure chromedriver is installed at /home/user/InstaPy/assets/chromedriver

Possible Solution (optional)

InstaPy configuration

Newest InstaPy version
Newest Chrome installed
Newest chromedriver installed
Ubuntu

[HermanPierre]

Same, i tried everything,

ERROR [2018-08-01 22:19:20] [hpierre.photo] Message: Service /home/pi/Project/InstaPy/assets/chromedriver unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 127
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/pi/Project/InstaPy/instapy/instapy.py", line 302, in set_selenium_local_session
chrome_options=chrome_options)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 62, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 86, in start
self.assert_process_still_running()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 99, in assert_process_still_running
% (self.path, return_code)
WebDriverException: Message: Service /home/pi/Project/InstaPy/assets/chromedriver unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 127
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "quickstart.py", line 23, in
multi_logs=True)
File "/home/pi/Project/InstaPy/instapy/instapy.py", line 195, in __init__
self.set_selenium_local_session()
File "/home/pi/Project/InstaPy/instapy/instapy.py", line 306, in set_selenium_local_session
Settings.chromedriver_location))
instapy.instapy.InstaPyError: ensure chromedriver is installed at /home/pi/Project/InstaPy/assets/chromedriver

[awesome205]

I'm having the same problem as well.

I have deleted Chromedriver, installed the new one, installed the old one to see if that would work but nothing has worked so far.

[moeinrahimi]

having chromedriver alone is not enough you need to install chrome browser itself

wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb; sudo apt-get -fy install

[HermanPierre]

@moeinrahimi i tried this too and it didn't worked

[Nocturnal-2]

I believe the issue #2524 which I am facing is related to this.

[JoeFertig]

Same here. After the pi update (sudo apt-get update) it doesn't work anymore.

[tibor]

@moeinrahimi Thanks for your reply, but I’ve installed Chrome already. Have been using InstaPy for a long time, so I wouldn’t open an issue for such simple mistakes.

[rodriguesprobr]

I got stuck on that too.

[rodriguesprobr]

I solved this issue installing libgconf-2-4
sudo apt-get install libgconf-2-4
After that, I updated chromedriver to the latest version.

[Nocturnal-2]

@rodriguesprobr is there an equivalent for Windows which I can install?

Also I would like to understand how _libgconf_ installation fixed this issue?

[rodriguesprobr]

Sorry, but I don't use Windows for a long time.
I tried to ran chromedriver manually and the stdout message was that this library was missing.

[Nocturnal-2]

When I run the Chromedriver manually it starts without any problem. I get 'PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied' only when InstaPy tries to use it.

I use the InstaPy (up-to-date 04-Aug-2018) on Windows 10 (Python 3.7.0, ChromeDriver 2.41, Chrome 68.x (up-to-date))

I tried running a old version of InstaPy (which was running successfully about a month ago) using both old Chromedriver (v2.38) and also the latest version of Chromedriver (v2.41). Always the same error. This makes it difficult to guess where the issue is - whether with the InstaPy or elsewhere.

[HermanPierre]

I'm on raspi 2 B+ i get the error too

[Nocturnal-2]

Earlier InstaPy expected _chromedriver.exe_ inside 'assets' folder. Now it is expecting _chromedriver.exe_ inside 'assets/chromedriver' folder. Is my understanding correct?

[rodriguesprobr]

When I run the Chromedriver manually it starts without any problem. I get 'PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied' only when InstaPy tries to use it.

Did you try to change permission settings?

[Nocturnal-2]

Did you try to change permission settings?

Yes, the driver has read, write, modify and execute permissions by default. I addition, I have given another permission called 'Full control'.

[fxmeister]

This problem still exists on Linux

[tibor]

@timgrossmann Do you have any idea how to fix this? Seems to be a problem for many users at the moment.

[xxxsomethingxd]

same here :\

[Nocturnal-2]

Can someone please help with this? Unable to fix this for about a month :(

[deyoneg]

Hello! I use Win and I observed that script tries to execute InstaPy\assets\chromedriver_windows\ folder as a file.
So as temporaly workaround I put chromedriver.exe file to InstaPy\assets\ and delete this code in settings.py:
if os_env == 'windows': chromedriver_location = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'assets', 'chromedriver_windows')

So chromedriver_location = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'assets', 'chromedriver') only triggered now for my system.

[Nocturnal-2]

@deyoneg Thank you! I also run from Windows.

I have appended chromedriver.exe to the third parameter of the following line in settings.py
chromedriver_location = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'assets', 'chromedriver\\chromedriver.exe')

Its working fine with this. Otherwise I think it is trying to execute the directory 'chromedriver' (instead of the executable inside the directory). If this is the case, to my understanding, anyone who downloaded the code after a last change here will not be able to run in Windows.

[SchDen]

Same error

Message: Service /code/assets/chromedriver unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 127

[kushpvo]

I'm on Raspberry Pi3 B+ and I get the same error. Isn't it solved yet?

[JoeFertig]

I think I solved the pi problem but let me finish some testing before I post something here.

[IH4xx3R]

Still need a solution. (Ubuntu)
Permissions : check, Latest Chrome : check, Drivers in assets : check, python-selenium installed : check, nogui & headless -> true : check

[timgrossmann]

The combination is nogui=False and headless=True.

Theres no need for the virtual GUI when we are not running an actual chrome browser instance

[ibrahimsharaf]

@timgrossmann this doesn't work

[ibrahimsharaf]

Try this (worked for me):

Run this command at your cmd, to get the path of chromedriver:

whereis chromedriver

Then go to the instapy package code, and modify this block of code in instapy.py:

try:
    self.browser = webdriver.Chrome(chromedriver_location,
                                  desired_capabilities=capabilities,
                                  chrome_options=chrome_options)

by changing chromedriver_location to the location you've got from the whereis command.

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