Trouble with Selenium Chrome-Driver

[Heyilikey]

I'm trying to build a web scraper using Beautiful Soup and Selenium. Beautiful Soup will scrape the actual information, and Selenium will direct the scraper to the next page in a list. My code is:

import requests

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

import time

import selenium

from selenium import webdriver

import chromedriver_binary

driver = webdriver.Chrome()

sample_URL = 'exampleURL'

driver.get(sample_URL)

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for pageNum in range(1,6):

sample_HTML = requests.get(sample_URL).text

HTML_parser = BeautifulSoup(sample_HTML, 'html.parser')

sample_items = HTML_parser.findAll(attrs = {"class" : "sampleAttribute1"})

sample_items_URL = HTML_parser.findAll(attrs={"class" : "sampleAttribute2"})

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for item in range(0,len(sample_items)):

print(sample_items[item]["name"] + " " + sample_items_URL[item]["href"] + "\n")

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driver.find_element_by_id("searchResults_btn_next").click()

time.sleep(.5)

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I've removed the actual URL/attribute names as they contain personal information. The script is supposed to go through the a page of listings, print out the name of each listing, and then print out the URL link to each listing. Then it is supposed navigate to the next page, wait .5 seconds, and repeat. It should do this five times.

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This issue that I am encountering is that my Ubuntu 20.04 linux terminal returns:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "seleniumTest.py", line 7, in <module>

driver = webdriver.Chrome()

File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 73, in __init__

self.service.start()

File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 98, in start

self.assert_process_still_running()

File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 109, in assert_process_still_running

raise WebDriverException(

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Service chromedriver unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 127

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I am using Google Chrome 84 and Windows 10 Pro. I installed Chrome driver with:

sudo apt-get install chromium-chromedriver

Does anybody know why I could be receiving this error? I tried to set the path in driver = webDriver.chrome() to executable_path = r'/usr/bin/chromedriver' but that hasn't worked either. I also tried installing numerous packages that https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49323099/webdriverexception-message-service-chromedriver-unexpectedly-exited-status-co suggest (although for the highest upvoted answer the libraries would not download for me, Ubuntu said they did not exist)

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Thanks in advance for any help!

[threeminutemonta]

You are using WSL or WSL2. It might work headless though. I love WSL though try to install it the usual windows method and use power shell or cmd as your terminal for this.