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Dave
Dave

Reputation: 19340

node.js complaining that "The ChromeDriver could not be found on the current PATH" even though chromedriver is on the path

I’m using node 5.10.0 on Linux. Having some issues running my script, which are displayed below

[davea@mydevbox mydir]$ node SkyNet.js 
Validation Complete
/home/davea/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/chrome.js:185
      throw Error(
      ^

Error: The ChromeDriver could not be found on the current PATH. Please download the latest version of the ChromeDriver from http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html and   ensure it can be found on your PATH.
    at Error (native)
    at new ServiceBuilder (/home/davea/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/chrome.js:185:13)
    at getDefaultService (/home/davea/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/chrome.js:362:22)
    at Driver (/home/davea/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/chrome.js:771:34)
    at Builder.build (/home/davea/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/builder.js:464:16)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/davea/mydir/js/Optimus.js:14:4)
    at Module._compile (module.js:413:34)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:422:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:357:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:314:12)

It is saying chromedriver isn’t on my path, but I just downloaded the appropriate version from here — http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=2.9/ , and as you can see, it is on my PATH

[davea@mydevbox mydir]$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/aws/bin:/home/davea/bin:/home/davea/bin:/usr/lib/chromedriver

with the following permissions …

[davea@mydevbox mydir]$ ls -al /usr/lib/chromedriver
-rwxr-xr-x 1 davea evotext 5503600 Feb  3  2014 /usr/lib/chromedriver

So I am confused as to why I’m getting this error. Any help is appreciated, - Dave

Upvotes: 33

Views: 59308

Answers (8)

Mahmudul Ahsan
Mahmudul Ahsan

Reputation: 43

Just puth this -

require("chromedriver");

before this -

let driver = new webdriver.Builder().forBrowser('chrome').build();

Upvotes: 0

COOL ED
COOL ED

Reputation: 41

Just Download the driver .exe file into the same folder as your current project file is lying. It worked for me. Might work for you as well. Peace!

Upvotes: 4

TARJU
TARJU

Reputation: 1994

been into a lot of confusion due to this for Jenkins windows slave

So here is how you can fix it

Following this link and download compatible driver as per your chrome version -

https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/webdriver/getting_started/install_drivers/

Once driver is downloaded place it somewhere in c:\ drive like c:\chromedriver

Add that path to your System environment variable - Reference is here https://www.browserstack.com/guide/run-selenium-tests-using-selenium-chromedriver

Once that is done please note to ensure to reboot your windows machine else Jenkins won't be able to find it

One more debug tip - I initially installed it using npm globally and added C:\Users\some_windows_user\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules to system environment variable and rebooted my machine. That never worked in CI.

So like I said above move it c:\chromedriver and add to System environment variable and 100% reboot you machine

Upvotes: 0

Nick Mitchell
Nick Mitchell

Reputation: 1277

To add to Niels' answer, for those not using Babel

  1. First install the chromedrive package using npm. If you install globally ensure to have node packages in your path
npm install -g chromedriver

If PATH errors persist, just save it to the local project's dependencies

npm install --save-dev chromedriver
  1. For those not using Babel
const webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver');
const chrome = require('selenium-webdriver/chrome');
const chromedriver = require('chromedriver');

chrome.setDefaultService(new chrome.ServiceBuilder(chromedriver.path).build());

Upvotes: 48

Dmitri R117
Dmitri R117

Reputation: 2852

The easiest way for me is to use a local install of chromedriver. I got the error when I forgot to require chromedriver inside my script.

  1. run npm install
  2. in your node script have the line require('chromedriver'); before you call a webdriver (I am using it with selenium-webdriver)

Not sure why it's not detecting your global path. If I don't have the line require('chromedriver') I can add the local chromedriver file to the path and it works.

Upvotes: 0

x4bibi
x4bibi

Reputation: 109

Might be a little late but if someone comes across this problem for me worked the following:

First npm install -g chromedriver --save

Then add this line on top of your code require('chromedriver');

Here is a demo:

require('chromedriver');
var webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver');
var driver = new webdriver.Builder()
  .forBrowser('chrome')
  .build();
driver.get('https://google.com');

For more details you can go here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/chromedriver

Upvotes: 10

suryavansh
suryavansh

Reputation: 191

for my small selenium-webdriver test i did these steps after i researched online and here:

  1. npm install selenium-webdriver
  2. npm install chromedriver
  3. npm install geckodriver and opened file library.js and npm init and ran node library.js (source code below)
  4. Error: (node:14212) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: NoSuchSessionError: invalid session id Some long error related to not same chromedriver version. so i checked the chrome browser version manually in the browser. it was version 73 and my mistake i had downloaded chromedriver version 74.0.
  5. so go to https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=73.0.3683.68/ download according to your OS and download it in ~/Downloads .
  6. then in open terminal in the ~/Downloads folder.
  7. then USER@DESKTOP:~/Downloads$ unzip ~/Downloads/chromedriver_linux64.zip -d ~/Downloads You will get the raw chromedriver file in ~/Downloads folder.
  8. now i moved the ChromeDriver 73.0.3683.68 file to two places - usr/local/bin and usr/bin in my system.
  9. there was already a chromedriver file in usr/local/bin .

  10. to move the file - USER@DESKTOP:~/Downloads$ sudo mv -f ~/Downloads/chromedriver /usr/local/bin/chromedriver and USER@DESKTOP:~/Downloads$ sudo mv -f ~/Downloads/chromedriver /usr/bin/chromedriver you are saying you want to move the file chromedriver from first location to other means replacing any files already in those locations with same name.

  11. Last all i did was. close the vscode and relaunched it. and ran my code node library.js . and it worked it the chrome browser for me.

SOURCE CODE : LIBRARY.JS

var webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver');

var By = webdriver.By;

var until = webdriver.until;

var driver = new webdriver.Builder().forBrowser('chrome').build();

driver.get('https://www.google.com');

Upvotes: 2

Niels van Reijmersdal
Niels van Reijmersdal

Reputation: 2045

I had the same issue. I have resolved it by taking the path from chromedriver package.

Here is my code:

import webdriver from 'selenium-webdriver';
import chrome from 'selenium-webdriver/chrome';
import chromedriver from 'chromedriver';

chrome.setDefaultService(new chrome.ServiceBuilder(chromedriver.path).build());

var driver = new webdriver.Builder()
                 .withCapabilities(webdriver.Capabilities.chrome())
                 .build();

Which is based on the code from this answer: Passing require('chromedriver).path directly to selenium-webdriver

Upvotes: 17

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