I'm new to selenium just started learning it using freecodecamp and started using selenium
downloaded selenium using the following command in python
pip install selenium
And I manually installed chrome web driver.
Written the code as:
import os
from selenium import webdriver
os.environ["PATH"] +=r"C:/seleniumDrivers" #where the chrome driver is installed
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
The following error occured when I run this:
line 81, in start
raise WebDriverException(
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be
in
PATH. Please see https://chromedriver.chromium.org/home
But if I modified code a bit:
import os
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome("C:/seleniumDrivers/chromedriver.exe)
A pop website appeared and closes immediately.
Can anyone please suggest what should I do.
In the newer selenium, including the webdriver is depreciated. Use ChromeDriverManager instead of referencing the path to chromedriver.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())
For the first issue
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH. Please see https://chromedriver.chromium.org/home
You have to point the PATH to the correct directory, which containing the chromedriver.exe executable on the first level (i.e. you can see the executable when you open the path, it usually named bin)
For the second issue
A pop website appeared and closes immediately. Can anyone please suggest what should I do.
It is because the code has finished (no further code to execute), so the program exits and closes the browser. You can try adding input() after the last line to see if the browser remains open (until you press enter on the command line).
You don't need to use the os module unless this is specific to your script, you can save the path as a variable. I'm using Selenium currently and this should work for you - you need to specify the "Service" now in the webdriver. Do the 2 pip installs first in terminal.
# pip install selenium #
# pip install webdriver-manager #
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium import webdriver
service = Service("C:/seleniumDrivers/chromedriver.exe")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service)
driver.get(URL)
Related
It looks like after opening the browser, Selenium cannot move on for some reasons I can't figure out. No error was ever displayed.
Here is my simple code:
import selenium
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
# Using Chrome to access web
browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path = "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe")
print ("done")
# Open YouTube website
browser.get("https://www.youtube.com/")
The browser opens just fine, but the print("done") statement is never executed. (In the terminal the word "done" was never printed. So, it infers that the selenium has never finished executing the command to open the browser even though the browser has opened, and I have waited for several minutes.
Thanks in advance to our wonderful StackOverflow community!
The reason is because you are using chrome.exe which is for browser. Instead you should download chromdriver.exe, Please download from here. You should download Latest stable release: ChromeDriver 94.0.4606.61 (as on 3rd-oct-2021). Keep that in your automation directory and any directory of your preference.
driver_path = r'C:\\Users\\username\\Desktop\\Automation\\chromedriver.exe'
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path = driver_path)
Note that, in place of driver_path, you should give the path where you've kept the chromdriver.exe
You should use chromedriver.exe instead of the path to your chrome.exe.
Download the chromedriver suitable for your chrome version, from here:
donwload Chromedriver.exe
Afterwards, do something like this:
browser = webdriver.Chrome("E:\YourPathToChromeDriver\chromedriver.exe")
Try these steps:
Check your Google Chrome version here "chrome://settings/help"
Download chromedriver.exe from "https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads"
Change executable path to newly downloaded file.
As mentioned above, this issue is the chrome.exe. You need to use a chromedriver instead. You can download one manually here https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads and then set the path to it like you did to the chrome.exe.
However, instead of downloading the chromedriver manually, I recommend using a library on GitHub which does that for you and loads it from cache if there is already one installed. (I'm not the owner nor the maintainer of this repository, but I do find it rather simple to use.)
https://github.com/SergeyPirogov/webdriver_manager
First you'd need to pip install webdriver-manager and then you can use it as following:
from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())
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I have tried to get selenium chrome driver working for weeks but I run into the same problem, selenium can't find my chromedriver.exe file
I am currently on Windows 10 and my version on chrome is 76.0.3809.100. I pip installed selenium in a virtual environment that is located in an EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE (E:).
I try the basic chrome driver setup by calling
from selenium import webdriver
browser = webdriver.Chrome()
I put chromedriver.exe in my path, and I can verify that by typing chromedriver in cmd and I get this output. It seems like it is the same version of chrome that I am using
Starting ChromeDriver 76.0.3809.126 (d80a294506b4c9d18015e755cee48f953ddc3f2f-refs/branch-heads/3809#{#1024}) on port 9515
Only local connections are allowed.
Please protect ports used by ChromeDriver and related test frameworks to prevent access by malicious code.
The error that I get when I try to run this test program is this.
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver.exe' executable needs to be in PATH. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home
I have tried different combinations of putting chromedriver.exe in various folders (using forward slashes and double backslashes) and running
from selenium import webdriver
browser = webdriver.Chrome("C:/python/Scripts/chromedriver.exe")
from selenium import webdriver
browser = webdriver.Chrome(r"C:/python/Scripts/chromedriver.exe")
from selenium import webdriver
browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:/python/Scripts/chromedriver.exe")
from selenium import webdriver
browser = webdriver.Chrome("E:\\SportsReference\\seleniumc\\chromedriver.exe")
from selenium import webdriver
browser = webdriver.Chrome(r"E:\\SportsReference\\selenium\\chromedriver.exe")
from selenium import webdriver
browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="E:\\SportsReference\\selenium\\chromedriver.exe")
etc.....
Every time I try to run one of the test programs above, I get the same error saying chromedriver needs to be in my path.
Someone, please help me because I have spent so much time just trying to get this basic test up and running.
You can refer following implementation :
driverlocation = "C:\\Python37\\Chromedriver.exe"
os.environ["webdriver.Chrome.driver.driver"] =driverlocation
driver = webdriver.Chrome(driverlocation)
I think you need to copy your chormedriver.exe file into your python file directory means for example if you save your python file in desktop then paste your chromedriver into desktop type this in your code:
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.maximize_window()
driver.get('Your_url')
I'm started to learn python Selenium. I just downloaded by pip pip install python-selenium and started to write first lines and at this moment appeares
>>> from selenium import webdriver
>>> from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
>>> driver = webdriver.Firefox()
[WinError2] FileNotFoundError...
...
Then I tried it with Chrome but appeares the same thing. Who can solve this problem?
You do following things and check whether it works.
Upgrade python bindings using
pip install -U selenium
for chrome download the latest chrome driver "ChromeDriver 2.45"
and write the code
from selenium import webdriver
driver=webdriver.Chrome("Path of the Chromedriver" + "chromedriver.exe" )
I am relatively new with this, and I am currently using python 2.7 with selenium. When running the following:
from selenium import webdriver
browser = webdriver.Firefox()
I get an error saying that 'geckodriver' executable must be in PATH. I then put it in /usr/local/bin, and it still did not work. I also tried doing browser = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=r'your\path\geckodriver'), and it still did not work. Additionally, after using chmod +x geckodriver in the terminal, it would give me an error. What solution will fix this problem?
From your question it is not clear about the OS on which you are triggering your scripts. While you work with Selenium 3.5.x you can download the geckodriver binary and place it anywhere within your system and reference it by providing the absolute path of the geckodriver binary while you initialize the webdriver instance. On my Windows 8 Pro system this is the working code:
from selenium import webdriver
driver=webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=r'C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\geckodriver.exe')
driver.get("http://www.google.com")
print("Page Title is : %s" %driver.title)
driver.quit()
Console Output:
Page Title is : Google
Perhaps on Linux systems, we have to do:
from selenium import webdriver
driver=webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=r'/absolute_path/geckodriver')
driver.get("http://www.google.com")
print("Page Title is : %s" %driver.title)
driver.quit()
I am trying to learn about Selenium but I am not able to get even a simple program to test. Selenium webdriver seems to not be cooperating with Firefox and I am very frustrated, so I come to Stack Overflow for help.
For background, I use Python, can install with pip, and know command line.
I am on windows 10, firefox 48, and selenium webdriver 3 with python 3.5.2
Whenever I run the selenium test, (it opens a Firefox windows and the selenium website)
from selenium import webdriver
browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get('http://www.seleniumhq.org')
I always get an error:
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Can't load the profile. Profile Dir: C:\ ... \AppData\Local\Temp\tmp68m5rtwt If you specified a log_file in the FirefoxBinary constructor, check it for details
It also opens a firefox window and has the link of about:blank&utm_content=firstrun(not a valid url)
I have looked across the internet for a similar situation, but nothing really close. I also tried many tutorials and made sure that I installed selenium the right way. I noticed that firefox was recently updated, but I am not sure if this has any effect.
I would appreciate any help for this, and instructions for what I should do.
Firefox 48+ doesn't support webdriver.Firefox().
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities
caps = DesiredCapabilities.FIREFOX
caps["marionette"] = True
caps["binary"] = "path/to/your/firefox"
browser = webdriver.Firefox(capabilities=caps)
browser.get('http://www.seleniumhq.org')
This is what I was trying
1. download geckodriver.https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases. v.0.10.0is for selenium 3(beta).
2. add PATH your geckodriver.
4. rename it to wires
5. restart shell
6. check the version
$ wires --version
7. and run above the code.