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Using Selenium on PythonAnywhere

I did according to tjis https://help.pythonanywhere.com/pages/selenium/

But Im getting this error.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/irandypro/Calendar/Cal.py", line 6, in <module>
    browser = webdriver.Chrome()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 65, in __init__
    RemoteWebDriver.__init__(
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 90, in __init__
    self.start_session(desired_capabilities, browser_profile)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 177, in start_session
    response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, capabilities)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 236, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 192, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.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.)
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.42.591071 (0b695ff80972cc1a65a5cd643186d2ae582cd4ac),platform=Linux 5.13.0-1022-aws x86_64)

From the traceback it looks like your initializing the browser without any options (browser = webdriver.Chrome()), have you tried to use the actual snippet from the help page?