How to suppress Chrome GCM DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT errors when running Selenium WebDriver? [closed]

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I'm running a web scraping project using Selenium with ChromeDriver in headless mode, and I'm constantly seeing the following logs in my terminal:

[20376:708:0708/170807.138:ERROR:google_apis\gcm\engine\registration_request.cc:291] Registration response error message: DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT [20376:708:0708/170937.002:ERROR:google_apis\gcm\engine\registration_request.cc:291] Registration response error message: DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT WARNING: All log messages before absl::InitializeLog() is called are written to STDERR I0000 00:00:1751975655.975515 12352 voice_transcription.cc:58] Registering VoiceTranscriptionCapability [17524:5748:0708/172416.659:ERROR:google_apis\gcm\engine\registration_request.cc:291] Registration response error message: DEPRECATED_ENDPOINT [17524:5748:0708/172417.593:ERROR:google_apis\gcm\engine\registration_request.cc:291] Registration response error message: PHONE_REGISTRATION_ERROR

Created TensorFlow Lite XNNPACK delegate for CPU. Attempting to use a delegate that only supports static-sized tensors with a graph that has dynamic-sized tensors (tensor#-1 is a dynamic-sized tensor).

These logs are not related to my scraping logic, but they spam the output and are extremely annoying.

From what I understand, this seems to be related to Chrome’s deprecated GCM (Google Cloud Messaging) system.

MY SETUP --

# Headless Chrome mode
options.add_argument('--headless=new')  # Use the new headless mode (Chrome 109+)

# System and performance flags
options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
options.add_argument('--disable-gpu')
options.add_argument('--mute-audio')
options.add_argument('--metrics-recording-only')

# Disable unnecessary features
options.add_argument('--disable-extensions')
options.add_argument('--disable-infobars')
options.add_argument('--disable-notifications')
options.add_argument('--disable-cloud-import')
options.add_argument('--disable-sync')
options.add_argument('--disable-client-side-phishing-detection')
options.add_argument('--disable-background-networking')
options.add_argument('--disable-background-timer-throttling')
options.add_argument('--disable-backgrounding-occluded-windows')
options.add_argument('--disable-component-update')
options.add_argument('--disable-default-apps')

# Privacy and identity
options.add_argument('--no-first-run')
options.add_argument('--no-default-browser-check')
options.add_argument('--ignore-certificate-errors')
options.add_argument('--guest')

# Custom User-Agent
options.add_argument(
    'user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) '
    'AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) '
    'Chrome/98.0.4758.102 Safari/537.36'
)

# Suppress Selenium logs
options.add_experimental_option('excludeSwitches', ['enable-logging'])

# Optional: Use a persistent user profile
if user_data_dir:
    options.add_argument(f'--user-data-dir={user_data_dir}')

Despite using these, the errors still show up?

There's not enough code here for us to see what you're doing — jackal
– jackal, Commented Jul 8 at 12:13
Please provide enough code so others can better understand or reproduce the problem. — Community
– Community Bot, Commented Jul 8 at 12:25
can you confirm that you are not setting any profile or user-data-dir options here? Does same happen when leaving out all options? — browsermator
– browsermator, Commented Jul 8 at 16:27
This question was closed so I can't provide an answer, but: This log happens in a standard build of Google Chrome (on Linux) with nothing other than Chrome running. It is a bug that Google needs to fix as chrome itself is hitting the deprecated endpoint. — Gerry
– Gerry, Commented Oct 23 at 18:43

marc_s · Accepted Answer · 2025-10-31 07:12:41Z

I was also seeing it in my python selenium code.

WARNING: All log messages before absl::InitializeLog() is called are written to STDERR

I0000 00:00:1751976232.317041   18644 voice_transcription.cc:58\] Registering VoiceTranscriptionCapability

\[6160:13064:0708/130352.513:ERROR:google_apis\\gcm\\engine\\registration_request.cc:291\] Registration response error message: PHONE_REGISTRATION_ERROR

\[6160:13064:0708/130352.513:ERROR:google_apis\\gcm\\engine\\registration_request.cc:291\] Registration response error message: PHONE_REGISTRATION_ERROR

\[6160:13064:0708/130352.525:ERROR:google_apis\\gcm\\engine\\mcs_client.cc:700\]   Error code: 401  Error message: Authentication Failed: wrong_secret

\[6160:13064:0708/130352.525:ERROR:google_apis\\gcm\\engine\\mcs_client.cc:702\] Failed to log in to GCM, resetting connection.

I managed to suppress this error and several others by tweaking the chrome options tag like this.

chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--log-level=3")

driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options)

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