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()
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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)
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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')
So, I am using OS X El Capitan with Eclipse (Neo) and Python. I am wrote some Python with Selenium scripts.
These scripts were working fine.
Then I upgraded from OSX Sierra to El Capitan
Note: this is about the only major change
that I did to my setup.
When I tried to run the same scripts, now, I get the
Message: chromedriver executable needs to be in PATH
As far I can tell chromedriver IS on my PATH.
Now, I can only make my scripts work if I hard copy the path to my chrome driver, which is not the most elegant way to do things, as we all know.
Has anyone else has/had this issue? Thoughts on any configuration with my Eclipse + Python.
My Eclipse and Python project screen shot
my PYTHONPATH screen shot
I dont know about python. But the implementation for the webdriver should be same irrespective of the language. Here you have called the chrome webdriver, but have you defined the path for chromedriver.exe in you code? For example, in java it looks like this
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\selenium-java-3.4.0/chromedriver.exe");
driver = new ChromeDriver();
The error you are getting is referring to the chromedriver.exe not the python environment.
Python Solution from Google documentation:
import time
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome('/path/to/chromedriver') # Optional argument, if not specified will search path.
driver.get('http://www.google.com/xhtml');
time.sleep(5) # Let the user actually see something!
search_box = driver.find_element_by_name('q')
search_box.send_keys('ChromeDriver')
search_box.submit()
time.sleep(5) # Let the user actually see something!
driver.quit()
First of all verify your driver path , if you open a command prompt and type in chromedriver and hit Enter. If you get message "Starting ChromeDriver 2.15.322448 .." your path is correctly set up.
In python, alternate solution is you can use
driver = webdriver.Chrome("path_to_driver/chromedriver.exe")
Hope this should work !
So I'm trying to scrape a website which uses JavaScript to display some of the text. I found out that I should be using Selenium WebDrivers instead of requests.get(), so I tried to use PhantomJS WebDriver, this didnt work however as whenever I tried to scrape this website it would scrape it successfully, but the website would produce HTML along the lines of this:
<p>Could not find page</p>
So Im guessing for some reason the WebDriver wasn't working properly. I am now trying to use the FireFox WebDriver -- Geckodriver. The path to the .exe is in my PATH, but when I run this command in python
browser = webdriver.Firefox()
It spits out the error of "Could not find specified geckodriver.exe in PATH". So instead of that, I used executable_path argument in Firefox() so it looked like this:
browser = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path='path/to/geckodriver/')
When I run it now, it opens geckodriver.exe (doesn't show anything on the cmd prompt screen) and spits out this error in IDLE:
WebDriverException: Message: Expected browser binary location, but unable to find binary in default location, no 'moz:firefoxOptions.binary' capability provided, and no binary flag set on the command line.
However, when I try to use ChromDriver it works fine. I dont understand why this one works and others dont?
Questions:
Why isn't PhantomJS working?
Why isn't GeckoDriver working?
Why does ChromeDriver work?
The error message is actually about browser binary, but not about geckodriver. Try to use following:
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.firefox_binary import FirefoxBinary
binary = FirefoxBinary('path/to/firefox.exe')
driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_binary=binary)
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.