socket.error: [Errno 54] Connection reset by peer Selenium-python

Question

I am new to selenium and trying an exampler http://www.marinamele.com/selenium-tutorial-web-scraping-with-selenium-and-python">here

import time from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException def init_driver(): driver = webdriver.Firefox() driver.wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 5) return driver def lookup(driver, query): driver.get("http://www.google.com") try: box = driver.wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located( (By.NAME, "q"))) button = driver.wait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable( (By.NAME, "btnK"))) box.send_keys(query) button.click() except TimeoutException: print("Box or Button not found in google.com") if __name__ == "__main__": driver = init_driver() lookup(driver, "Selenium") time.sleep(5) driver.quit() 

I have installed selenium using

pip install selenium 

But Its not working.

Error showing up is

socket.error: [Errno 54] Connection reset by peer 

and sometimes

raise BadStatusLine(line) httplib.BadStatusLine: '' 

Firefox open up and then shuts down saying "Firefox has quit unexpectedly"

I have gone through Selenium headless browser webdriver [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer and Why am I getting this error in python ? (httplib) but nothing helped.

Answer 1

Downgrade your firefox and try again.Looks like all versions of firefox not compatible with selenium.

Reference:Selenium 2.50 not working on firefox 45

Answer 2

It sounds obvious, but in opposition to the existing answer I want to add a reminder to try upgrading your Selenium, Firefox & geckodriver instances.

I spent a lot of time trying to solve this issue before I remembered to try a simple update, which resolved the problem.

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Update Selenium in Python with

pip install --upgrade selenium 

Check geckodriver version

geckodriver --version 

Install latest gecko driver and Firefox