When I am passing fully qualified path for the executable_path the Chrome() method able to locate the driver but when I am creating a directory(drivers) inside the project in pycharm and passing as
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="../drivers/chromedriver")
then Chrome() method fails to locate.
According to me, error reason would be:
1) chromedriver copied into the local directory is not supporting.(Getting a question mark on the copied chromedriver executable file)
2) Proper path is not passed
Image Of My Structure & Error Image
Try This:
pip install webdriver_manager
Then:
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())
When using a relative path, it needs to include the r to specify it's raw. Also, include the .exe in the path for the driver.
For example,
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'../drivers/chromedriver.exe')#Use single quotation mark
Apply the same changes to yours and it should solve your problem.
Try To add one dot
Try This:
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="./driver/chromedriver")
dealing with paths can be a bit tricky, i always use a lib
import pathlib
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=str(pathlib.Path().absolute().parent.joinpath('drivers').joinpath('chromedriver'))))
hope it helps.
Related
so I have started working on selenium, and this is my first time working with it, the code provided below opens chrome but doesnt open the url mentioned in the .get function.
from selenium import webdriver
import time
# open chrome and access the page
driver = webdriver.Chrome("C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe")
driver.get('https://dex.onxrp.com/?project=XREEFS')
time.sleep(5)
driver.close()
I have installed the selenium pip library, do i need something else as well for it to load the link?
Using selenium3 the default argument which can be passed within webdriver.Chrome() is the value of the KEY executable_path i.e. the logical/absolute path of the ChromeDriver executable but not of google-chrome executable.
Solution
Ideally, your line of code will be:
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\path\to\chromedriver.exe')
I am a complete beginner to selenium and I wrote my first program just to connect to Google.
from selenium import webdriver
path = "C:\\Users\\Home\\Documents\\Python37-32\\Scripts\\Code\\msedgedriver.exe"
driver = webdriver.Edge(path)
driver.get("https://google.com")
print(driver.title)"
My web driver version is 88.0.705.50 (Official build) (64-bit)
I use selenium 3 and I am getting this error while running the code. Also it is opening "data:," for a few seconds then opening Google. Lastly the browser doesn't stay open.
Declare path on a separate line from the import statement
Use raw string in path or double escapes
Code:
from selenium import webdriver
path = r"C:\Users\Home\Documents\Python37-32\Scripts\Code\msedgedriver.exe"
driver = webdriver.Edge(path)
driver.get("https://google.com")
print(driver.title)
What error do you get? It's the default behavior that the browser opens with data:,, then it will direct to the website you want. The browser doesn't stay opened may because the error breaks it.
You can refer to the following steps to automate Edge in python selenium:
Make sure the WebDriver version is the same as the Edge version.
Install the MS Edge Selenium tools using command below:
pip install msedge-selenium-tools selenium==3.141
Sample code:
from msedge.selenium_tools import Edge, EdgeOptions
options = EdgeOptions()
options.use_chromium = True
driver = Edge(executable_path = r"C:\Users\Home\Documents\Python37-32\Scripts\Code\msedgedriver.exe", options = options)
driver.get("https://google.com")
print(driver.title)
All my efforts to open chrome browser with Browsec extension enabled are failing. Here is what i tried in last -
# Configure the necessary command-line option.
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument(r'--load-
extension=C:\Users\lap0042\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User
Data\Default\Extensions\omghfjlpggmjjaagoclmmobgdodcjboh')
# Initalize the driver with the appropriate options.
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options)
driver.get("http://stackoverflow.com")
This results in error "Failed to load extension from . Manifest files is missing or unreadable"
After search for this error I get that Manifest.json file should be renamed to manifest.json.txt but doing this resulted in same error.
Any help will be highly appreciated
To open chrome browser with any extension you need to use the add_extension() method through an instance of chrome.options class and you can use the following solution :
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_extension(r'C:\path\to\extension.crx')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options, executable_path=r'C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\chromedriver.exe')
driver.get('https://www.google.co.in')
print("Page Title is : %s" %driver.title)
driver.quit()
References
You can find the relevant documentation in:
ChromeDriver - WebDriver for Chrome.
You can find a couple of relevant discussions in:
[Python] How to install Chrome Extension using Selenium & Python
[Java] How to install extension permanently in geckodriver
Use this code to fetch extensions
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addExtensions(new File("/pathtoChromeextension.crx")); //adding
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
capabilities.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);
ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(capabilities);
Use below to get crx file
http://crxextractor.com/ from your extension id which is omghfjlpggmjjaagoclmmobgdodcjboh
Simplest answer as far as I'm aware - manifest in subfolder of location you've referenced (e.g. 3.28.2_0' or whatever the latest version of extension is...)
This assumes you're using 'options.add_argument('--load-extension=')...
For options.add_extension('reference crx file .crx')
if i understood correctly you're trying to load a local unpacked extension into selenium
in that case this code should work
options = options()
options.add_argument("--load-extension=" + unpackedExtensionPath)
a better option would be to pack your extension into a crx file
For Python you need wright path to manifest.json file
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium import webdriver
path = os.path.dirname(r"C:\temp\mdnleldcmiljblolnjhpnblkcekpdkpa\19.5.1.10_0\manifest.json")
options = Options()
options.add_argument(f"--load-extension={path}")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
I am trying to load a google chrome extension with Selenium WebDriver.
But I receive an error OSError: Path to the extension doesn't exist.
Here is the code I am using:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
import time
from os import path
path = "path to chrome driver"
chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_extension('Adblock-Plus_v1.12.4_0.crx') # ALTERNATIVE 0
driver = webdriver.Chrome(path, chrome_options=chrome_options)
After reading various similar questions on this site I tried the following two alternatives:
# Alternative 1
chrome_options.add_extension('~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions/[Extension ID]/Adblock-Plus_v1.12.4_0.crx')
#Alternative 2
chrome_options.add_extension(path.abspath("Adblock-Plus_v1.12.4_0.crx"))
But none of them work. Alternative 1 gives same error message as the original code whereas Alternative 2 gives error AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'abspath'
Does anyone have a clue what I could be doing differently?
More thank likely, this is because python is referencing the wrong path with what would normally be the home directory shortcut of ~/ in the path. Python will try and run the file from the current directory, so for example if your code is in ~/Dev/testproject, and the code being called above is really trying to run /home/username/Dev/testproject/~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions/[Extension ID]/Adblock-Plus_v1.12.4_0.crx
Try using the following:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
import time
import os
chromedriver = "path to chrome driver"
chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
# choose one of the following 2:
chrome_options.add_extension(os.path.expanduser('~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions/[Extension ID]/Adblock-Plus_v1.12.4_0.crx')) # Option 1: if your extension is not also in your project folder
chrome_options.add_extension(os.path.abspath('Adblock-Plus_v1.12.4_0.crx')) # Option 2: if your extension IS in your project folder
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chromedriver, chrome_options=chrome_options)
EDIT: avoid declaring a variable named path since you are importing path from os. This is why you are getting the error on Alternative #2.
I am having issues getting an instance of a Chrome browser from selenium in python. I'm using Windows 8. I have downloaded the chromedriver binary and added it to my path but I get the following error in Python:
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'ChromeDriver executable needs to be available in the path.
This error occurs for the following line:
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='path\to\chromedriver_win32_2.0')
Two ways to set it, you somehow mixed up.
Put the chromedriver.exe's path into PATH (on Windows), so your PATH setting is correct, but you need to call the default constructor.
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
Specify the path in webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='some path'). Here you need the full path to the executable, not the directory.
webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\Users\HaranKumar\Downloads\chromedriver_win32_2.0\chromedriver.exe')
Choose either one you want.
Assuming that your path is correct, make sure that you include the chromedriver itself: chromedriver.exe
I used the following and it worked! Thanks!
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\chromedriver.exe')
#put your own path between the ''
Even if you have chromedriver.exe in the PATH, its necessary to have chromedriver.exe in the folder where your executable scripts are present(atleast so is the case when it comes to python scripts)
for python(selenium) you will need:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver import Chrome
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
then put your chromedriver.exe path in. the "r" is just to prevent it from detecting the \ and causing errors in python
PATH = r"C:\Program Files (x86)\chromedriver.exe"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(PATH)
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
you can now order the driver to get websites
driver.get('http://www.google.com')
Update 2021
For Python
I got Selenium to open my default Chrome browser with my profile using this:
options.add_argument("--user-data-dir=C:\\Users\\Sams\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data")
options.add_argument('--profile-directory=Default')
Go to: chrome://version/
Look for your "Profile Path"
profile path image
Copy your Profile Path and replace "options.add_argument("--user-data-dir={YOUR PROFILE PATH}")"
The second argument may also look different. Mine so happens to be "Default". For other it may be "Profile 1" or "Profile X" X being an incrementing number.
Close all your Chrome browsers before running. Because the Chrome Driver cannot run an automated browser alongside the rest of your other tabs.
Here is my entire Selenium Config. Hopefully it helps someone.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium.webdriver.remote.webdriver import WebDriver
options = Options()
options.add_argument("--window-size=1920,1080")
options.add_argument("--log-level=3")
options.add_experimental_option('excludeSwitches', ['enable-logging'])
# The 2 arguments below will use your main browser.
options.add_argument("--user-data-dir=C:\\Users\\Sams\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data") # profile path (C)
options.add_argument('--profile-directory=Default')
options.headless = False # To show Chrome or not to show?
PATH = (r"C:\Users\Sams\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\chromedriver.exe")
CHROMEDRIVER_PATH = PATH
driver = webdriver.Chrome(CHROMEDRIVER_PATH, options=options)
I recently ran into this error and I found three main solutions for this chromedriver not in path error
download a library that does it - webdriver_manager or chromedriver_autoinstaller both work
add it to path in your program
add chromedriver executable to your system PATH
Update 2016
The following solution works for me, with WebDriver 3.0.1, Chrome Driver 2.25.426923, Window 7
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","D:\\workspace\\chromedriver.exe");
WebDriver driver;
driver = new ChromeDriver();
*Note:
Chrome Driver
See also: http://www.frontendtest.org/blog/path-executable-chrome/