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Jeremy
Jeremy

Reputation: 2044

ChromeDriver Quits Unexpectedly

While trying to learn more about Python, I tried to write a program that would, when given a link, perform an action on the web. I am using the selenium Module, and from it webdriver. The current code looks like this:

from selenium import webdriver

def supremeTest():
    browser = webdriver.Firefox()
    browser.get('http://www.google.com')
    linkElem = browser.find_element_by_name("q")
    type(linkElem)
    linkElem.click()

The problem, however, lies in that when I change webdriver.Firefox() to .Chrome() the program opens a Chrome page, then exits before any action is completed.

I am wondering why this is so, and I am using python3, and I do have the latest version of ChromeDriver. I have looked at the help section of ChromeDriver, but from what I was looking at, there was nothing of help there.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4005

Answers (1)

Strik3r
Strik3r

Reputation: 1057

This is because selenium by default provide the driver for firefox but not for chrome. if you look at the method calls firefox can be called with 0 arguments.

webdriver.Firefox()

but not chrome method ,it will take a argument called executable_path

webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='<path>')

so, to run chrome from selenium you need to download the chrome webdriver from here. and keep the file path in the it will work fine. Since, you already downloaded the webdriver, please specify the path in the method call of chrome().Like this

path_to_chromedriver = 'C:/python34/chromedriver/chromedriver.exe'
browser2 = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path = path_to_chromedriver)

Hope it helps.

Upvotes: 3

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