I am wondering if there is a way within py2app to include the Firefox browser, or if there is a way for Selenium to use Firefox without having to install Firefox on the host machine.
I have created an app with py2app that uses Selenium, however, I have Firefox installed on my machine, but not everyone that will receive the app will have Firefox installed. I am looking for a way to either include Firefox in the distribution or go around this.
Script will not run if Firefox is not preinstalled.
You can test your script with other browser, for example Chrome. If it works on Chrome also, then you can edit script like this:
from selenium.common.exceptions import WebDriverException
try:
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
except WebDriverException:
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
You can add same for few more browsers (IE, Opera, Safari...) to be sure that script will run on users machine
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I'm using selenium chromedriver with Google Chrome profiles on Mac OS and Windows. As I understand it, in the usual case the selenium script will not work if another profile in Google Chrome is open. This causes some inconvenience as a regular google chrome user - every time before I run the script I have to close the browser completely.
I would not be comfortable switching to the gecko driver because firefox does not allow me to install the extensions I need. Are there any other options on how to solve this problem?
I've created a Python script to collect data from different websites using Selenium. On my Windows PC the script works fine and does exactly what it's supose to do. Now I'm trying to make my script run on my Raspberyy Pi. On my PC I use Google Chrome with selenium but ofcourse Chrome is not supported on a Raspberry Pi. Instead I have to use Chromium but I struggle to make this work. I use the following code to start my driver:
import requests
from selenium import webdriver
session_requests = requests.session()
ser = Service(r"/home/pi/Downloads/chromedriver")
op = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=ser, options=op)
With this code I get the following error:
OSError: [Errno 8] Exec format error: '/home/pi/Downloads/chromedriver'
This error is because my chromedriver is for Google Chrome and not Chromium. When I look for the driver for Chromium, it automatically gives me the driver for Google Chrome instead.
I'm using Chromium version 98.0.4758.106. Is there a driver for Chromium or should I look for another solution? I found a work-around to download Google Chrome on my Raspberry Pi, but this does not look like it should be done. Any suggestions are appreciated, thanks in advance!
After a long search I found a solution for my own problem. People from the Raspbian project have compiled a chromium-chromedriver version for the armhf platform and added it to the repo. The following command line will add the Chromium-driver and make it ready to use:
sudo apt-get install chromium-chromedriver
With this solution you will no longer need to give the path to the driver.
Source: https://ivanderevianko.com/2020/01/selenium-chromedriver-for-raspberrypi
I write some code with python selenium using chrome driver as web driver. When I run code in my system ( mac os ), the code works. Chrome browser was opened, and selenium works correctly. But when I want to run my code in Centos 7 without GUI, selenium can't match with web driver and run the code. Although I install google-chrome-stable and use the same web driver for it, selenium can't run web driver.
driver = webdriver.Chrome(driver_path=chromedrive75)
So, I don't know how to fix the code and running on my centos operating system.
#Vahid, please check the chrome web browser version which is compatible with server, also try running in headless mode.
I'm trying to open a web browser using Selenium Chromedriver on Windows 10 with python in jupyter notebooks through an ubuntu command prompt. I've read stack overflow posts and tried to solve based on their answers, but I'm stuck in a loop where I keep receiving the same 3 errors.
Here is what I have installed:
OS - Windows 10, 1709, 64-bit Selenium - 3.8.1 Chromedriver - 2.45
Chrome - Version 71.0.3578.98 Python - 3.5.2
I tried various websites. The goal is to eventually get to a social media login page, but i'm stuck at opening a new blank web browser.
Here is my starting code:
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("https://www.imdb.com/")
WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable may have wrong
permissions.
Then I tried the following:
from selenium import webdriver
chromedriver = "C:/Users/xxxx/AppData/Local/lxss/home/xxxx/chromedriver.exe"
browser = webdriver.Chrome(chromedriver)
browser.get('https://www.imdb.com/')
WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver.exe' executable needs to be
in PATH.
Here are the steps I have taken:
I added a PATH under environment variables to the folder - (C:\Users\xxxxx\AppData\Local\lxss\home\xxxx),
I tried using \, and /, and even \
Once I added the PATH, I tried the following two codes (and various versions) and received the same error:
A.
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Local\lxss\home\xxxx)
driver.get("https://www.imdb.com/")
B.
from selenium import webdriver
chromedriver = r'C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Local\lxss\home\xxxx\chromedriver.exe'
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chromedriver)
driver.get("https://www.imdb.com/")
WebDriverException: Message:
'C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Local\lxss\home\xxxx' executable may have wrong
permissions.
Then I did the following:
- Went to file Properties, under General, took off Read-only (Windows permissions)
- Went to file Properties, under Security and changed permissions to Full Control
- In the C:\Users\xxxxx\AppData\Local\lxss\home\xxxx file, I changed the permissions
using chmod 777 -R in my command prompt. Then I tried the following code:
from selenium import webdriver
import os
chromedriver = r'C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Local\lxss\home\xxxx\chromedriver.exe'
driver = webdriver.Chrome(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'chromedriver.exe'))
driver.get("https://www.imdb.com/")
WebDriverException: Message: Service /home/ariggs/chromedriver.exe
unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 1
I am stuck between these three error messages. Does anyone have another suggestion for a beginner?
You can actually start Windows executables from a linux subsystem as it is described here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/interop.
But you have to keep in mind that Selenium and ChromeDriver communicate over a network connection. Actually chromedriver starts its own http server and Selenium sends requests and receives responses over http. (see https://sqa.stackexchange.com/questions/28358/how-does-chromedriver-exe-work-on-a-core-and-fundamental-level)
According to Microsoft, WSL and Windows share the same IP address and network connections via localhost are supported. But in your case there seems to be a problem during the startup.
You can start a remote webdriver on windows with Python and connect to that.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities
import subprocess
subprocess.run(["d:\\develop\\remotewebdriver.cmd", ""])
driver = webdriver.Remote(
command_executor='http://localhost:4444/wd/hub',
desired_capabilities=DesiredCapabilities.CHROME)
driver.get('http://www.google.in/')
driver.close()
You need a windows script remotewebdriver.cmd for the remote webdriver that is called from Python:
SET JAVA_HOME=D:\develop\Java\jdk-11.0.2
d:
cd \develop
start D:\develop\Java\jdk-11.0.2\bin\java -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=d:\develop\chromedriver.exe -jar selenium-server-standalone-3.141.59.jar
You have to adapt the path to your own environment. This setup works for me.
You can do this way.
Step 1:
Download chrome driver from this link (download the specific version as chrome):
http://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads
Important: check your chrome version first. Go to help -> about Google Chrome, to see the version of your chrome.
Step 2:
After downloading extract and save the chromedriver file in a specific folder like, C:\selenium
go to environment variable and add a new path, C:\selenium
Step 3
Double click on the chromedriver application and then restart your command prompt. (If you are using conda environment.)
I am trying to automation some action on a website using Python and Selenium, this is the sample code I am trying to run, from the Mozilla website for running the Firefox webdriver
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities
caps = DesiredCapabilities.FIREFOX
caps["marionette"] = True
caps["binary"] = "/usr/bin/firefox-aurora"
driver = webdriver.Firefox(capabilities=caps)
driver.get("https://www.google.com")
driver.quit()
When running this code, the Firefox instance opens normally, and I can even use the instance as if I just opened Firefox normally, but the code 'stops' executing at the driver = webdriver.Firefox(capabilities=caps) line, I tried debugging the code with no luck, the whole execution seems to just stop at this line, and nothing after it is reached!
I am running Python3.5, Selenium version 2.53.6, I have the 'Wires' executable at the /usr/local/bin which is in the environment's PATH, I also have Firefox Aurora version 49.0a2 running on ArchLinux.
Thanks in advance.
[Update:]
I managed to get it to work after all using Firefox 46 (the normal version).