Resolved Selenium and ChromeDriver compatibility issues

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📅 2023-05-12 — Session: Resolved Selenium and ChromeDriver compatibility issues

🕒 03:55–04:35
🏷️ Labels: Selenium, Chromedriver, Instapy, Web Automation, Troubleshooting
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The session aimed to resolve compatibility issues between Selenium, geckodriver, Firefox, and ChromeDriver, and to configure InstaPy for web automation using Chrome.

Key Activities

  • Checked versions of Geckodriver, Firefox, and Selenium to ensure compatibility.
  • Resolved an attribute error related to the ‘Service’ object in Selenium’s WebDriver module.
  • Configured InstaPy to work with ChromeDriver, including specifying the ChromeDriver path and updating Selenium WebDriver code to use a Service object.
  • Addressed the SessionNotCreatedException error by updating ChromeDriver to match the Chrome browser version.

Achievements

  • Successfully configured InstaPy to operate with ChromeDriver instead of geckodriver.
  • Resolved compatibility issues and deprecated parameter usage in Selenium WebDriver code.

Pending Tasks

  • Further testing of the InstaPy configuration with different versions of Chrome and ChromeDriver to ensure robustness.
  • Monitor for any new deprecation warnings or compatibility issues in future Selenium updates.

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