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Description
Description
I'm trying to open Google Chrome through Selenium but the manager isn't downloading the driver automatically as it's supposed to.
I've tried to turn on logging as specified in the instructions, but the log file remained empty after running the below code. A stack trace is produced, however:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\user\mamba\envs\script\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\driver_finder.py", line 67, in _binary_paths
output = SeleniumManager().binary_paths(self._to_args())
File "C:\Users\user\mamba\envs\script\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\selenium_manager.py", line 47, in binary_paths
args = [str(self._get_binary())] + args
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "C:\Users\user\mamba\envs\script\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\selenium_manager.py", line 99, in _get_binary
raise WebDriverException(f"Unable to obtain working Selenium Manager binary; {path}")
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Unable to obtain working Selenium Manager binary; C:\Users\user\mamba\envs\script\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\windows\selenium-manager.exe
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:\Synced Documents\2025\test.py", line 6, in <module>
chrome = web.Chrome()
File "C:\Users\user\mamba\envs\script\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py", line 45, in __init__
super().__init__(
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
browser_name=DesiredCapabilities.CHROME["browserName"],
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
...<3 lines>...
keep_alive=keep_alive,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
)
^
File "C:\Users\user\mamba\envs\script\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chromium\webdriver.py", line 51, in __init__
if finder.get_browser_path():
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "C:\Users\user\mamba\envs\script\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\driver_finder.py", line 47, in get_browser_path
return self._binary_paths()["browser_path"]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "C:\Users\user\mamba\envs\script\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\driver_finder.py", line 78, in _binary_paths
raise NoSuchDriverException(msg) from err
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchDriverException: Message: Unable to obtain driver for chrome; For documentation on this error, please visit: https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/webdriver/troubleshooting/errors/driver_location
I'm using Windows 11 with a conda (mamba) installation, Python 3.13, and the most recent Selenium versions available:
(script) PS D:\Synced Documents\2025> mamba list selenium
List of packages in environment: "C:\\Users\\user\\mamba\\envs\\script"
Name Version Build Channel
--------------------------------------------------------
selenium 4.32.0 pyhe01879c_0 conda-forge
selenium-manager 4.32.0 h63977a8_0 conda-forge
I have the most recent Chrome version installed on my system (136.0.7103.93). However, I had the same issue a year ago, so I doubt it's version-specific. At that point, I swapped back to using from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager.
Reproducible Code
from selenium import webdriver as web
import logging
logger = logging.getLogger('selenium')
logger.addHandler(logging.FileHandler('selenium.log'))
logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
chrome = web.Chrome()
chrome.get('https://www.google.com')