Reputation: 1324
I had a problem running executing a Webdriver using a script in python using the library selenium. I have posted the sample code scenarios as well as the corresponding error thrown while executing.
Code Scenario:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://www.python.org")
Error Scenario:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/Kaushik/Desktop/IMC DEVELOPER TEST/Sample.py", line 4, in <module>
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium-2.37.2-py2.7.egg\selenium\webdriver\firefox\webdriver.py", line 59, in __init__
self.binary, timeout),
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium-2.37.2-py2.7.egg\selenium\webdriver\firefox\extension_connection.py", line 47, in __init__
self.binary.launch_browser(self.profile)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium-2.37.2-py2.7.egg\selenium\webdriver\firefox\firefox_binary.py", line 60, in launch_browser
self._start_from_profile_path(self.profile.path)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium-2.37.2-py2.7.egg\selenium\webdriver\firefox\firefox_binary.py", line 83, in _start_from_profile_path
env=self._firefox_env).communicate()
File "C:\Python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 709, in __init__
errread, errwrite)
File "C:\Python27\lib\subprocess.py", line 957, in _execute_child
startupinfo)
WindowsError: [Error 87] The parameter is incorrect
I coudnt understand the Error thrown. I just need to use the selenium library to retrieve a dynamic data from a website using a python script.
Upvotes: 0
Views: 478
Reputation: 498
There is nothing wrong with your code, it works fine for me.
Do you have firefox installed? if not, you can use a different browser. for example:
driver = webdriver.Ie
or
driver = webdriver.Opera
Upvotes: 5