Selenium update breaking selenider_session()

[AntonioBergallo]

Hey! I was trying to run selenider now and got this error message

session_sel <- selenider_session(
session = "selenium",
browser = "chrome",
timeout = 6)

Error in utils::download.file(url, path, quiet = !verbose) :
cannot open URL 'https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/releases/download/selenium-4.23.0/selenium-server-4.23.0.jar'
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In utils::download.file(url, path, quiet = !verbose) :
downloaded length 0 != reported length 0
2: In utils::download.file(url, path, quiet = !verbose) :
cannot open URL 'https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/releases/download/selenium-4.23.0/selenium-server-4.23.0.jar': HTTP status was '404 Not Found'

I think it has somehthing to do with selenium's new release, which has a different name due to being a beta version, as the image below shows.

Is there a quick fix for that? I skimmed through the code for selenider_session but could not find it right away.

[kasimrafique]

Is this still an issue after v4.23.0 was released 7 days ago?

[AntonioBergallo]

No, right now it is working. It might break when a later beta version is released with a name that doesn't fit the pattern. You can also download 4.23.0 and pull the file from your computer. The function itself has a parameter for that, "temp" if I'm not mistaken.

[ashbythorpe]

This is an issue in selenium, not selenider, that should be fixed in the dev version of selenium (pak::pak("ashbythorpe/selenium-r")). I haven't tested this very thoroughly because I'm in another country at the moment, so let me know if it breaks again.