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"The HTTP request to the remote WebDriver server for URL http://localhost blah blah timed out after 60 seconds"

The external Chrome browser is unusable with this error so everything has stopped.
Any suggestions?

 

(This is Ubot 6.7.23 standard version)

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Hello. If you also have access to UBot 5.9.55 you may want to give the Automaxed Browser Automation Plugin a try:

https://automaxed.com/plugins/browser-automation
https://network.ubotstudio.com/forum/index.php?/topic/26693-automaxed-browser-automation-plugin/

We have feedback from quite some users that love the plugin for it's capabilities.
It works with the latest Chrome, works even on difficult sites and has unmachted features.

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This isn't actually a server issue, and I'm not sure how to reproduce the error on my end, but I can provide some information that might help determine the cause of the error.

UBot Studio controls the external browser using selenium. Selenium uses a locally hosted http server to communicate with the controlled chrome window. 

For some reason or another, selenium is timing out when it tries to communicate with chrome via its locally hosted http server.

One thing you can try is turning off all your plugins, and seeing if the error goes away. If it does, you can try to narrow it down to a particular plugin causing the issue.

If that doesn't help, then, from a clean UBot with no plugins, let me know step by step how to reproduce this error on my end, so I can investigate the issue deeper.

Thanks!

 

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17 minutes ago, Seth Turin said:

This isn't actually a server issue, and I'm not sure how to reproduce the error on my end, but I can provide some information that might help determine the cause of the error.

UBot Studio controls the external browser using selenium. Selenium uses a locally hosted http server to communicate with the controlled chrome window. 

For some reason or another, selenium is timing out when it tries to communicate with chrome via its locally hosted http server.

One thing you can try is turning off all your plugins, and seeing if the error goes away. If it does, you can try to narrow it down to a particular plugin causing the issue.

If that doesn't help, then, from a clean UBot with no plugins, let me know step by step how to reproduce this error on my end, so I can investigate the issue deeper.

Thanks!

 

Thanks Seth - I am doing clean installs - things have deteriorated now so I can't download the support files to even start Ubot (this is new behavior - it was installing fine until yesterday. Now nothing is working :(
:
2023-10-26 20:34:42: UBot Studio Starting Up
2023-10-26 20:34:42: Start Core UI...
2023-10-26 20:34:43: Loading Main Window...
2023-10-26 20:34:43: Download Core Files...
2023-10-26 20:34:43: Downloading base files
2023-10-26 20:34:44: Error downloading file C:\Users\Steve\AppData\Roaming\UBot Studio\Browser\6.7.23\6.7.23.zip: System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden.
   at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.EndGetResponse(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
   at System.Net.WebClient.GetWebResponse(WebRequest request, IAsyncResult result)
   at System.Net.WebClient.DownloadBitsResponseCallback(IAsyncResult result)
2023-10-26 20:34:44: Error downloading file C:\Users\Steve\AppData\Roaming\UBot Studio\Browser\6.7.23\6.7.23.zip: System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden.

 

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15 hours ago, Seth Turin said:

This isn't actually a server issue, and I'm not sure how to reproduce the error on my end, but I can provide some information that might help determine the cause of the error.

UBot Studio controls the external browser using selenium. Selenium uses a locally hosted http server to communicate with the controlled chrome window. 

For some reason or another, selenium is timing out when it tries to communicate with chrome via its locally hosted http server.

One thing you can try is turning off all your plugins, and seeing if the error goes away. If it does, you can try to narrow it down to a particular plugin causing the issue.

If that doesn't help, then, from a clean UBot with no plugins, let me know step by step how to reproduce this error on my end, so I can investigate the issue deeper.

Thanks!

 

Hi Seth,

Turning off all plugins did not work, I reinstalled Ubot from scratch, deleting all Appdata folders and files, and still getting the same error (see attached screenshot) .

What I noticed and I am not sure if this has a relation with this issue, but this started to happen after updating Chrome browser. and for me this error is occuring when I use the "Navigate" command, the bot visits the URL, then it freezes and the error popup. 

 

here is the simple script I am trying to run:

 

navigate("https://google.com","Wait")
wait(2)
navigate("https://yahoo.com","Wait")
wait(2)
navigate("https://bing.com","Wait")

 

When I run it, the first URL shows, then bot visit the 2nd URL and stop working throwing the error.

then, when I try to run the script again, it stopped right away without visiting any URL.

Desktop-screenshot (3).png

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12 hours ago, PRO said:

Thanks - that's great - any chance you could tweak it for 6.7.23 - or explain how that can be done? 6.7.23 is such a useful version of Ubot when it works - but not doing at the moment for at least two of us.

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5 hours ago, UPPER said:

Hi Seth,

Turning off all plugins did not work, I reinstalled Ubot from scratch, deleting all Appdata folders and files, and still getting the same error (see attached screenshot) .

What I noticed and I am not sure if this has a relation with this issue, but this started to happen after updating Chrome browser. and for me this error is occuring when I use the "Navigate" command, the bot visits the URL, then it freezes and the error popup. 

 

here is the simple script I am trying to run:

 

navigate("https://google.com","Wait")
wait(2)
navigate("https://yahoo.com","Wait")
wait(2)
navigate("https://bing.com","Wait")

 

When I run it, the first URL shows, then bot visit the 2nd URL and stop working throwing the error.

then, when I try to run the script again, it stopped right away without visiting any URL.

Desktop-screenshot (3).png

Same here - I get similar error messages. The splash screen error doesn't happen every time, but the navigate error occurs from the start for me: I think the Chrome browser update may have something to do with it. Only happens when the Chrome browser is enabled - not the internal browser.

 

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Also getting this error after the Uh-oh splash screen error pointing to the WeServer:

image.png.440be21c2749de59c065f4c64a442303.png

 

Obvs, I don't have internet connection issues. The uh-oh screen appears most times after starting Ubot, but sometimes it starts as normal and then exhibits the behavior described by @UPPER
Not easily repeatable but I noticed yesterday that when you load a script to just navigate to different URLs, while the script stops after the first navigate element, it seems you can still run individual elements manually and they operate as expected.
 

Also - another point that may be relevant: the "validating licence" step is taking an age to complete. When it does, (because I have a valid licence!) the Uh-oh splash screen loads. Is the licence validation delay interfering with / or connected with the webserver connection problem?

 

 

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Getting this every time I try to interact through installed Chrome.

 

The HTTP request to the remote WebDriver server for URL "http://localhost......."

/execute timed out for 60 seconds.

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Same issue here! I have narrowed it down to when I visit or manually interact with specific websites.

An example of a website where it instantly breaks the connection with the browser when i navigate to it is cosmoprof . com (remove the spaces around the dot).

Every attempt to use the navigate command after results in the following error. The only way to get the browser to respond is by restarting uBot Studio...

image.png.0f63e83394e6a2f6447d88e64b713172.png

Steps taken to remedy:

  1. Uninstalled uBot Studo
  2. Removed the folder "AppData\Roaming\UBot Studio"
  3. Removed the folder "AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\UBot User Data"
  4. Removed uBot Studio entries in Windows database
  5. Re-installed uBot Studio using only pre-installed plugins (all disabled)
  6. Attempted a navigate comand to the above website

This didn't fix anything - same error.

I'm guessing there was an update to Chrome which broke the connection...

 

I'm hoping a fix can be made quickly!

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@Seth Turin
Hi Seth - as you can see from this thread, this is a growing problem. I'm sure we're all willing to help you troubleshoot the issue, but at the moment, for us, and maybe others, Ubot is unusable. I've had the problem for nearly three weeks and it's affecting my business (I use Ubot to create products on Fiverr) - having to suspend my gigs. Hope you can sort it out.

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I suspect it's because (a) there are other fires burning, or (b) they don't know how to - maybe they can't replicate it, so go to (a). Super frustrating especially since the inbuilt browser is now so old it gets bounced on so many sites - the whole package is mainly unusable.

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