“Failed to decode response from marionette” message in Python/Firefox headless scraping script

Question

Good Day, I\'ve done a number of searches on here and google and yet to find a solution that address this problem.

The scenario is:

I have a Python script (

Answer 1

Try this, for Ubuntu 16.04:

1. Install firefox

sudo apt update
sudo apt install firefox

2. Check that firefox is well installed

which firefox

Will return /usr/bin/firefox

3. Go to the geckodriver releases page. Find the latest version of the driver for your platform and download it. For example:

wget https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.24.0/geckodriver-v0.24.0-linux64.tar.gz

4. Extract the file with:

tar -xvzf geckodriver*

5. Make it executable:

chmod +x geckodriver

6. Move it to $PATH and give root access

sudo mv geckodriver /usr/bin/
cd /usr/bin
sudo chown root:root geckodriver

7. Install selenium

pip3 install selenium

8. Add firefox and geckodriver to $PATH

sudo vim ~/.bashrc

Add the two lines:

export PATH=$PATH:"/usr/bin/firefox"
export PATH=$PATH:"/usr/bin/geckodriver"

9. Reboot your instance

sudo reboot