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I was trying to use Selenium on Google Colab, then an error occurred. The error message was "chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH."

I googled and found a solution. The solution was as follows:

!apt-get update
!apt install chromium-chromedriver
!cp /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromedriver /usr/bin
!pip install selenium

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--headless')
options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')

driver = webdriver.Chrome('chromedriver',options=options)

When I removed the --headless option, the following error occurred.

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/chromium-browser is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)

Is there no way to use Selenium on Google Colab without the --headless option?

Answers

No there isn't. Google colab is meant for --headless mode.

You can not simply invoke the object of the real browser.