BrowserNotFoundError: Failed to start a browser: chrome: Could not reach host. Are you offline?

Team, We are using Open Available Browser’s usage in Selenium.py doesn’t downloads the Webdrivers as per the selected browser. Due to this the following error gets thrown.

BrowserNotFoundError: Failed to start a browser:
chrome: Could not reach host. Are you offline?

  1. Can you please get back on the location where we could see the logs of files like selenium.py or webdriver.py?
  2. Any pointers on this error? Here’re the library versions we use

rpaframework: 28.6.0
webdriver-manager: 4.0.2
selenium: 4.15.2

RPAFramework was never really part of rf ecosystem per se and parts of it where not even opensource and its mostly now abandoned as company doesn’t exist anymore. I doubt you can get much help in here.

Second, selenium has had its own webdriver download mechanism so using external webdrivermanager is not necessary anymore.

3rd - i would assume that the error message means that you don’t have a supported browser installed.

4th, 0 code given, makes giving any help next to impossible.

and final note: Open Browser works, Open Available Browser doesn't · Issue #1194 · robocorp/rpaframework · GitHub – this seems to be known issue and there seems to be patches too that claim to fix that. Better go look into it but my advice: get rid of rpaframework.

Thanks Rasjani, I do understand the implications of rpaframework’s support, but getting rid of rpaframework is a tough ask and a long term plan. Btw, for this issue, here’s the exact code (webdriver.download() method) that doesn’t gets called or gets errored out. This gets called from Selenium.py.

Any pointers like where to look for the log messages of these py classes? Pls chime in.