Pezant's Perspective

If you’re like me and trying to set up a scraping project and leveraging Selenium you may have run into the path requirement that I found to be puzzling. Luckily chromedriver-py solves that for you. However, upon install, I found that it wasn’t accepting the version of Chrome that I had installed (apparently the latest release only supports the beta version of Chrome).

My error message:

selenium.common.exceptions.SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 103

Current browser version is 102.0.5005.115 with binary path /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome

After installing Chrome’s beta version and being unsuccessful there I figured out that earlier versions of chromedriver-py support earlier versions of the browser.

I was able to install a specific version of chromedriver-py via pip using this command (which is also helpfully included on the version pages on pypi.org):

python -m pip install chromedriver-py==102.0.5005.61

https://pypi.org/project/chromedriver-py/102.0.5005.61/

Remember to uninstall the version that isn’t working for you first.

Happy scraping!

Have you ever deleted a post online or made a profile private and wanted it to be removed from search results? If that content is no longer available to the public, it should eventually be removed from search results but, if you want to expedite it, you can actually submit a request directly to Google to have it be removed from search results by using this tool (https://search.google.com/search-console/remove-outdated-content).

This tool only applies if the content is no longer publicly available so make sure to have it taken before submitting a request.

If you want to learn more about the tool you can read about it here (https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7041154).

So you’re trying to get something done and you’ve found an awesome tool to install via pip. You pop open Terminal, run your pip install command (in my case, pip install google_images_download), install the module successfully, and are ready to get to work. You start working on your Python script and get an error:

ImportError: No module named google_images_download

Well, that doesn’t make sense, you just installed it.
Turns out, it may not have been installed in the right place.

Solution

I found my solution here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32680081/importerror-after-successful-pip-installation

Basically, put python -m before your pip install command.

I also had to set up pip directly in my python environment using this command python -m ensurepip --upgrade --user

https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/installation/

Final Set of Commands

python -m ensurepip –upgrade –user

python -m pip install google_images_download –user

No more errors. Nice!

I was having challenges where a script that used to work for sending keystrokes directly to a window based on its window title wasn’t working. I tried troubleshooting a bunch of stuff (so weird since it was working before) but nothing was sticking.

I stumbled across a comment mentioning that programs being run as Adminstrator couldn’t be interacted with by programs that were not being run as Administrator (in this case, AHK for me).

By changing the AutoHotKey executable to always run as administrator I was able to send commands again without any issues.

Recently had an annoying error come up where I couldn’t start Call of Duty: Warzone. I tried:

• Scan and repair which took forever and didn’t work
• Restarting my computer
• Un-installing and re-installing (this didn’t work and now I couldn’t even install the game)
• Deleting my Battle.net folder in AppData
• Running Battle.net as Administrator

Ultimately, what did work was going into Properties –> Compatibility for Battle.net.exe and Battle.net Launcher.exe and checking the box for “Run this program as administrator”.

Credit to this Reddit thread for helping me finally find the solution:

• Battle.net Error BLZBNTAGT00000960 trying to update the game : CODWarzone (reddit.com)
• Specifically, step 2 from this comment (Now locate your Battle.net folder and do the same to the Battle.net.exe and Battle.net.exe Launcher. Make sure that these files are not just shortcuts.).

If you’re like me and you wanted to download Age of Empires 4 to play with your friends on Game Pass you might have run into this error. You start the install and for some reason its not progressing. You go to check on your progress and see there’s an error.

Maybe you restart the app, your computer or choose a different install location (I did all those things). Still no luck.

UIltimately this is the fix that worked for me. Credit to these Reddit and Microsoft Community posts:

• Solution to Game pass Installation errors 0x00000001 and 0x80070424 : aoe4 (reddit.com)
• XBOX Game Pass (PC) – Error 0x80070424 [SOLVED] – Microsoft Community

1.Run Windows Powershell in admin mode (I did this by starting it up, and then right clicking on the icon in my task bar to create a new instance in administrator mode).

2. Close the Xbox app.

3. Enter this command: Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml”}

4. Wait for it to complete and try the install again.

I’d messed up my pipenv previously by trying to get it to install a module that just wasn’t working out for me. In using pipenv install -skip-lock I’d inadvertently put my pipenv in a state where it was constantly stuck in a loop where it was trying to install “blocks” through pipenv which just wasn’t possible.

This is what my error log looked like in terminal:

[pipenv.exceptions.ResolutionFailure]: No versions found
[pipenv.exceptions.ResolutionFailure]: Warning: Your dependencies could not be resolved. You likely have a mismatch in your sub-dependencies.
First try clearing your dependency cache with $ pipenv lock –clear, then try the original command again.
Alternatively, you can use $ pipenv install –skip-lock to bypass this mechanism, then run $ pipenv graph to inspect the situation.
Hint: try $ pipenv lock –pre if it is a pre-release dependency.
ERROR: ERROR: Could not find a version that matches blocks
No versions found
Was https://pypi.org/simple reachable?

To fix the problem, I ended up deleting my pipfile and running the same install command again. It installed the package I was trying to get (elasticsearch) and updated Pipfile.lock with the new project requirements.

Note: Your pipfile will look something like this in your project folder.

My terminal output after deleting the pipfile in my virtual environment:

(venv) Nicholass-MacBook-Pro:microblog nicholaspezarro$ pipenv install elasticsearch
Creating a Pipfile for this project…
Installing elasticsearch…
Adding elasticsearch to Pipfile’s [packages]…
✔ Installation Succeeded
Pipfile.lock (0b8641) out of date, updating to (9d3b63)…
Locking [dev-packages] dependencies…
Locking [packages] dependencies…
✔ Success!
Updated Pipfile.lock (0b8641)!
Installing dependencies from Pipfile.lock (0b8641)…
🐍 ▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉▉ 2/2 — 00:00:00

Let’s say you accidentally commit and push a file full of passwords (like a .env file) that you don’t want other people to want and now it is part of your public project on Github? How do you get rid of that? Fear not, follow these two commands and you’ll be back to before you took that ill-fated action.

Before beginning, make sure that you backup any files and changes you’d like to preserve elsewhere as your work in the repository will be wiped back to where you were at your previous commit.

git reset –hard HEAD^
git push origin +master –force

(Note that here I used “master” as that was the branch I was working on, you’ll want to change “master” to whatever your branch name is and use that in the command)

Useful links: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/448919/how-can-i-remove-a-commit-on-github