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Python Selenium Help Error - Traceback (most recent call last): [duplicate]

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I haven't programmed in years. I am trying to learn to automate a task for work. I was able to successfully install selenium for Python after having some issues.
This is the simple program I am trying to test to make sure my installation was successful.
Note - I was having issues installing selenium so I had to set the path and some other stuff. So I'm thinking some of those changes might have affected running this Python program.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://www.python.org")
assert "Python" in driver.title
elem = driver.find_element_by_name("q")
elem.clear()
elem.send_keys("pycon")
elem.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
assert "No results found." not in driver.page_source
driver.close()
When I run the program on the command prompt this is what I get.
>py main.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\jonab\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 72, in start
self.process = subprocess.Popen(cmd, env=self.env,
File "C:\Users\jonab\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\subprocess.py", line 947, in __init__
self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
File "C:\Users\jonab\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\subprocess.py", line 1416, in _execute_child
hp, ht, pid, tid = _winapi.CreateProcess(executable, args,
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\jonab\Documents\Python Projects\Amazon SC Review Automation\main.py", line 4, in <module>
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
File "C:\Users\jonab\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\webdriver.py", line 164, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "C:\Users\jonab\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 81, in start
raise WebDriverException(
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'geckodriver' executable needs to be in PATH.
I did reference this post and ran their code but got a different error.
Python Selenium Traceback (most recent call last):

unable to run basic Py program in Pycharm with Selenium

I'm very new to coding. Trying to run the below basic lines from past 20 days, and getting the below error. Kindly help. Tried installing uninstalling python, selenium & pycharm. still same issue :(
My code:
from selenium import webdriver
browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path = 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application')
browser.get('https://www.google.com')
browser.quit()
Error -
"C:\Python 3.7.6\python.exe" C:/Users/PycharmProjects/sel/sel1.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python 3.7.6\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 76, in start
stdin=PIPE)
File "C:\Python 3.7.6\lib\subprocess.py", line 800, in __init__
restore_signals, start_new_session)
File "C:\Python 3.7.6\lib\subprocess.py", line 1207, in _execute_child
startupinfo)
PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/PycharmProjects/sel/sel1.py", line 2, in <module>
browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path = 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application')
File "C:\Python 3.7.6\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py", line 73, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "C:\Python 3.7.6\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 88, in start
os.path.basename(self.path), self.start_error_message)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'Application' executable may have wrong permissions. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home
Process finished with exit code 1
Thanks in advance.

Your executable path is deeply problematic. The error being thrown show that your programs access to the chrome driver is being blocked. Change the position of the chrome driver to somewhere else(desktop, user directory etc) and change the executable path in your code to the new path where you put your chromedriver and you should be okay

Error when using "webdriver.Chrome()" in selenium [duplicate]

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When I use "webdriver.Chrome()". I encountering an error when running this code:
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
Here's the error that showes up:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 76, in start
stdin=PIPE)
File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\subprocess.py", line 775, in __init__
restore_signals, start_new_session)
File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\subprocess.py", line 1178, in _execute_child
startupinfo)
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#2>", line 1, in <module>
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py", line 73, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 83, in start
os.path.basename(self.path), self.start_error_message)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home
I don't have any idea what to make of this. And I haven't found anyone with the same issue. Anyone know a fix?

You need to chromedriver binary and the path of binary as below:
driver = webdriver.Chrome('/usr/local/bin/chromedriver.exe')
Download your chromedriver as per your chrome version from below location :
https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html

Code doesn't recognize chromedriver.exe as a file

So i'm new with python, and got interested with WebDriver and its possible applications. So i've written this just to test that all the necessary libraries are installed.
from selenium import webdriver
import time
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path= r'chromedriver.exe')
driver.get('http://www.google.com')
And once i write python3 nameOfCode.py the result is an error as it so often is. The error(s) are
macs-MacBook-Pro:Desktop mac$ python3 testSelenium.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "testSelenium.py", line 5, in <module>
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path= mac/Desktop/chromedriver.exe)
NameError: name 'mac' is not defined
macs-MacBook-Pro:Desktop mac$ python3 testSelenium.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "testSelenium.py", line 5, in <module>
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path= Desktop/chromedriver.exe)
NameError: name 'Desktop' is not defined
macs-MacBook-Pro:Desktop mac$ python3 testSelenium.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "testSelenium.py", line 5, in <module>
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path= chromedriver.exe)
NameError: name 'chromedriver' is not defined
macs-MacBook-Pro:Desktop mac$ python3 testSelenium.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 76, in start
stdin=PIPE)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 709, in __init__
restore_signals, start_new_session)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 1344, in _execute_child
raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'chromedriver.exe': 'chromedriver.exe'
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "testSelenium.py", line 5, in <module>
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path= r'chromedriver.exe')
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 73, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 83, in start
os.path.basename(self.path), self.start_error_message)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver.exe' executable needs to be in PATH. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home
Sorry if this is much :))
Dario

The last line says it all...
'chromedriver.exe' executable needs to be in PATH. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home
If you are using Windows:
You need to add the location of "chromedriver.exe" to your environment variable named PATH. You should be able to find the dialog through the start menu search (search for: environment variables), then find the variable named PATH (not case sensitive). If it doesn't exist, create it. The contents of this variable is a list of folder locations separated by semicolons, and the folder containing "chromedriver.exe" needs to be there.
If you're on a Mac: (I don't have one so I can't confirm these methods)
edit "/etc/paths" file to have the location of the executable, or put:
PATH="${PATH}:/some/other/directory:/another/place/scripts/live:"
export $PATH
somewhere in your .bash_profile file

selenium wont work with Firefox or Chrome

I am trying to learn python web scraping, but I cannot get selenium to work with either browser.
from selenium import webdriver
browser = webdriver.Firefox()
This is all the code I have and I get this for a error.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\tjhall\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 64, in start
stdout=self.log_file, stderr=self.log_file)
File "C:\Users\tjhall\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\subprocess.py", line 950, in __init__
restore_signals, start_new_session)
File "C:\Users\tjhall\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\subprocess.py", line 1220, in _execute_child
startupinfo)
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "H:\codingpractice\python\python challenge.com.py", line 2, in <module>
browser = webdriver.Firefox()
File "C:\Users\tjhall\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\webdriver.py", line 135, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "C:\Users\tjhall\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 71, in start
os.path.basename(self.path), self.start_error_message)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'geckodriver' executable needs to be in PATH.
Exception ignored in: <bound method Service.__del__ of <selenium.webdriver.firefox.service.Service object at 0x00A11350>>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\tjhall\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 163, in __del__
self.stop()
File "C:\Users\tjhall\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 135, in stop
if self.process is None:
AttributeError: 'Service' object has no attribute 'process'
I have tried everything I can find on the internet from adding the path to the code
from selenium import webdriver
browser = webdriver.Firefox("C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe")
to adding it the the PATH in my environment variables. I can't seem to figure this out...

For both Firefox and Chrome you now need to download geckodriver / chromedriver.These drivers are necessary to communicate between your installed browser and selenium. So you need:
Install selenium for python (pip install selenium)
Download drivers for the browser you want to use (chromedriver, geckodriver, operadriver etc)
Install the browser you want to use on your system (probably already have this)
Now you can add the geckodriver to your path as metioned in this anwser. Or you can set it up directly in your code like this:
Chome:
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='/path/to/chromedriver.exe')
Firefox:
driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path='/opt/geckoDriver/geckodriver.exe')

According to the line in your message
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'geckodriver' executable needs to be in PATH.
you do not have geckodriver.exe. You need to download it from enter link description here, put exe in the directory where Python script is located and try code below:
Please try this code:
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.firefox_binary import FirefoxBinary
gecko = os.path.normpath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'geckodriver'))
binary = FirefoxBinary(r'C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe')
browser = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_binary=binary,executable_path=gecko+'.exe')
browser.get('http:///www.google.com')
browser.close()