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Could not get version for google-chrome with the command: powershell “$ErrorActionPreference=’silentlycontinue’ using WebDriver manager and Selenium

I’m trying to create a script using python that separate 2 kind of websites , the one with SPF included and the others with SPF , and classify them using python, so in the beginning it worked perfectly but these daysit gives me a message error that I don’t find a clue about it

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
import re
import requests
import json
from datetime import datetime
from colorama import Fore, Back, Style
import colorama
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager

colorama.init()
def checkCaptchaPresent(driver):
    captchaFound = True
    while captchaFound:
        try:
            driver.find_element_by_id("captcha-form")
            driver.set_window_position(0, 0)
        except:
            driver.set_window_position(20000, 0)
            captchaFound = False
            return 0

def requestSPF(url):
    response = requests.get("https://api.sparkpost.com/api/v1/messaging-tools/spf/query?domain={}".format(url)).json()

    for error in response['results']['errors']:
        if "does not have an SPF record" in error['message']:
            print(Fore.RED + "{} does not have an SPF record".format(url))
            return [url]
    
    print(Fore.GREEN + "{} have an SPF record".format(url))
    return []

chrome_options = Options()
PATH = "webdriver/chromedriver.exe"
chrome_options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
chrome_options.add_argument('--window-size=1000,1000')
chrome_options.add_argument('log-level=3')
# chrome_options.add_argument("--user-data-dir=SFPInspector")

while True:
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install(),options=chrome_options)
    driver.set_window_position(20000, 0)
    search_term = input("Enter search term: ")
    number_results = int(input("Max number of url to scrape: "))
    language_code = "en"

    driver.get('https://www.google.com/search?q={}&num={}&hl={}'.format(search_term, number_results+1, language_code))
    print('https://www.google.com/search?q={}&num={}&hl={}'.format(search_term, number_results+1, language_code))
    checkCaptchaPresent(driver)
    urls = driver.find_elements_by_xpath("//div[@id='search']/div/div/div[@class='g']//div[@class='yuRUbf']/a")
    websiteLink = []
    for url in urls:
        scrappedURL = url.get_attribute('href')
        print(scrappedURL)
        websiteLink.append(scrappedURL)

    filteredURL = []
    for i, url in enumerate(websiteLink):
        match = re.compile("^http.*com[/]")
        matchedURL = match.findall(url)
        
        filteredURL += matchedURL

    filteredURL = [url.replace('https:', '').replace('http:', '').replace('/', '') for url in filteredURL]

    noSPFURL = []
    with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=int(10)) as pool:
        for res in pool.map(requestSPF, filteredURL):
            noSPFURL += res

    print(Style.RESET_ALL)
    driver.close()
    fileName = datetime.now().strftime("%d%m%Y-%H%M")
    print("Saving reports: report/{}_AllSite_{}.txt".format(''.join(e for e in search_term if e.isalnum()), fileName))
    with open('report/{}_AllSite_{}.txt'.format(''.join(e for e in search_term if e.isalnum()), fileName), 'w') as filehandle:
        for link in websiteLink:
            filehandle.write("{}n".format(link))

    print("Saving reports: report/{}_NoSPF_{}.txt".format(''.join(e for e in search_term if e.isalnum()), fileName))
    with open('report/{}_NoSPF_{}.txt'.format(''.join(e for e in search_term if e.isalnum()), fileName), 'w') as filehandle:
        for link in noSPFURL:
            filehandle.write("{}n".format(link))

The output message is as follows:

====== WebDriver manager ======
Could not get version for google-chrome with the command:  powershell "$ErrorActionPreference='silentlycontinue' ; (Get-Item -Path "$env:PROGRAMFILESGoogleChromeApplicationchrome.exe").VersionInfo.FileVersion ; if (-not $? -or $? -match $error) { (Get-Item -Path "$env:PROGRAMFILES(x86)GoogleChromeApplicationchrome.exe").VersionInfo.FileVersion } if (-not $? -or $? -match $error) { (Get-Item -Path "$env:LOCALAPPDATAGoogleChromeApplicationchrome.exe").VersionInfo.FileVersion } if (-not $? -or $? -match $error) { reg query "HKCUSOFTWAREGoogleChromeBLBeacon" /v version } if (-not $? -or $? -match $error) { reg query "HKLMSOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUninstallGoogle Chrome" /v version }"
Current google-chrome version is UNKNOWN
Get LATEST chromedriver version for UNKNOWN google-chrome
Trying to download new driver from https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/98.0.4758.102/chromedriver_win32.zip
Driver has been saved in cache [C:Usersdell.wdmdriverschromedriverwin3298.0.4758.102]
Enter search term:

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Answer

This error message…

====== WebDriver manager ======
Could not get version for google-chrome with the command:  powershell "$ErrorActionPreference='silentlycontinue' ; (Get-Item -Path "$env:PROGRAMFILESGoogleChromeApplicationchrome.exe").VersionInfo.FileVersion ; if (-not $? -or $? -match $error) { (Get-Item -Path "$env:PROGRAMFILES(x86)GoogleChromeApplicationchrome.exe").VersionInfo.FileVersion } if (-not $? -or $? -match $error) { (Get-Item -Path "$env:LOCALAPPDATAGoogleChromeApplicationchrome.exe").VersionInfo.FileVersion } if (-not $? -or $? -match $error) { reg query "HKCUSOFTWAREGoogleChromeBLBeacon" /v version } if (-not $? -or $? -match $error) { reg query "HKLMSOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUninstallGoogle Chrome" /v version }"
Current google-chrome version is UNKNOWN
Get LATEST chromedriver version for UNKNOWN google-chrome

…implies that the Webdriver Manager was unable to retrieve the version of the installed browser within the system through any of the below commands and query:

  • Get-Item -Path "$env:PROGRAMFILESGoogleChromeApplicationchrome.exe").VersionInfo.FileVersion
  • Get-Item -Path "$env:PROGRAMFILES(x86)GoogleChromeApplicationchrome.exe").VersionInfo.FileVersion
  • Get-Item -Path "$env:LOCALAPPDATAGoogleChromeApplicationchrome.exe").VersionInfo.FileVersion
  • reg query "HKCUSOFTWAREGoogleChromeBLBeacon" /v version
  • reg query "HKLMSOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUninstallGoogle Chrome" /v version

Deep Dive

This issue was discussed in details in the following discussions:

and was finally fixed through fix powershell determination and str concatenation

Solution

Upgrade webdriver-manager to the latest version of webdriver-manager 3.5.4

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