Error about download google patents

[korlin0110]

When I use this script after install google-chrome and chromedriver:

$ python -m GooglePatentsPdfDownloader EP0551921B1 --driver /usr/bin/chromedriver

I get the error message:

1 patent(s) remaining. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/user/anaconda3/envs/GooglePatents/lib/python3.6/runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main "main", mod_spec) File "/home/user/anaconda3/envs/GooglePatents/lib/python3.6/runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code exec(code, run_globals) File "/home/user/anaconda3/envs/GooglePatents/lib/python3.6/site-packages/GooglePatentsPdfDownloader/main.py", line 37, in pat_dl.download(**kwargs) File "/home/user/anaconda3/envs/GooglePatents/lib/python3.6/site-packages/GooglePatentsPdfDownloader/patent_downloader.py", line 74, in download remove_kind_codes=remove_kind_codes File "/home/user/anaconda3/envs/GooglePatents/lib/python3.6/site-packages/GooglePatentsPdfDownloader/patent_downloader.py", line 137, in get_pdfs remove_kind_codes=remove_kind_codes File "/home/user/anaconda3/envs/GooglePatents/lib/python3.6/site-packages/GooglePatentsPdfDownloader/patent_downloader.py", line 95, in get_pdf driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=self.driver_file) File "/home/user/anaconda3/envs/GooglePatents/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 81, in init desired_capabilities=desired_capabilities) File "/home/user/anaconda3/envs/GooglePatents/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 157, in init self.start_session(capabilities, browser_profile) File "/home/user/anaconda3/envs/GooglePatents/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 252, in start_session response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters) File "/home/user/anaconda3/envs/GooglePatents/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 321, in execute self.error_handler.check_response(response) File "/home/user/anaconda3/envs/GooglePatents/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace) selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally. (unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist) (The process started from chrome location /usr/bin/google-chrome is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)

How to remove this error and download pdf from google patents?

[lorenzbr]

It works for me when running on Windows. Have you checked that the chromedriver.exe is the correct one, i.e., it can used for your Chrome version? I tested this for Chrome version 99.

[korlin0110]

So, this tool only use in the wndows system? My system is ubuntu server, and chrome version is 99.0.4844.82

[lorenzbr]

Yes, on Windows, it should work. I am not able to verify this on Ubuntu right now. I'll let you now once I have tried this.

[zdavatz]

Also not working on Linux for me.