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Meji
Meji

Reputation: 987

No such file or directory: 'geckodriver' for a simple Selenium application in Python

I'm running a simple example of selenium on Linux:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("something")

and get an error:

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'geckodriver'

How to fix it?

$ python
Python 3.5.2 (default, Jun 28 2016, 08:46:01) 
[GCC 6.1.1 20160602] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import selenium
>>> from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
>>>

Upvotes: 64

Views: 58481

Answers (9)

ar2015
ar2015

Reputation: 6150

Here is the correct way:

sudo apt install firefox-geckodriver

You do not need manual installations.

Upvotes: 2

juliushuck
juliushuck

Reputation: 1694

There is a python package that autoinstalls it crossplattform, no need for users to manually install it: https://pypi.org/project/geckodriver-autoinstaller/

Upvotes: 0

jasonleonhard
jasonleonhard

Reputation: 13937

Mac OSX:

Firefox? brew install geckodriver

Chrome? brew install chromedriver

Choose one:

driver = webdriver.Firefox()   # brew install geckodriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()    # brew install chromedriver

Upvotes: 1

Vincent van Leeuwen
Vincent van Leeuwen

Reputation: 701

Mac OSX:

Firefox? brew install geckodriver

Chrome? brew install chromedriver

Upvotes: 3

David Viana
David Viana

Reputation: 516

Linux: You can install "sudo apt install firefox-geckodriver"

Upvotes: 9

Sri
Sri

Reputation: 111

I faced same issue in Linux. I used below steps to fix that Error. 

cd /bin

# Check on https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases for the latest release
wget https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.24.0/geckodriver-v0.24.0-linux32.tar.gz
tar -xvzf geckodriver-v0.24.0-linux32.tar.gz
rm geckodriver-v0.24.0-linux32.tar.gz
chmod +x geckodriver
export PATH=$PATH:/bin/geckodriver

geckodriver --version

Note : I tried with latest version geckodriver-v0.26.0 but it not working for me, That's Why I installed the old version v0.24.0

Upvotes: 11

user3064538
user3064538

Reputation:

On linux, you can install Homebrew and then brew install geckodriver through it

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Linuxbrew/install/master/install.sh)"
brew install geckodriver

or by installing Nix

curl https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh
nix install geckodriver

but adding another package manager to your system might be a bad idea.

Upvotes: 1

Rdesmond
Rdesmond

Reputation: 1211

Downloading geckodriver

The geckodriver executable can be downloaded here.

Python3 venv

Download the geckodriver executable from the above link and extract it to env/bin/ to make it accessible to only the virtual environment.

In your python code, you will now be able to do the following:

from selenium import webdriver

browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get("https://stackoverflow.com/")

Linux

If you would like to make it available system wide, download the geckodriver executable from the above link and extract it to /usr/bin/ (or anything inside of your $PATH)

Windows

Note: this needs a windows user to test and confirm

Download geckodriver from the above link and extract it to C:\Windows\System32\ (or anything inside your Path environment variable).

Mac OS X

Note: I took this from Vincent van Leeuwen's answer in this very question. Putting it here for the sake of lumping everything in one answer

To make geckodriver available system wide, open up your Terminal App and perform the following command:

brew install geckodriver

More Info

More info on selenium can be found here:

Selenium requires a driver to interface with the chosen browser. Firefox, for example, requires geckodriver, which needs to be installed before the below examples can be run. Make sure it's in your PATH, e. g., place it in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin.

Failure to observe this step will give you an error selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'geckodriver' executable needs to be in PATH.

Upvotes: 55

Paul Chris Jones
Paul Chris Jones

Reputation: 2917

Selenium requires geckodriver to interface with Firefox. Here's how to install geckodriver:

  1. Download geckodriver from https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.24.0/geckodriver-v0.24.0-linux64.tar.gz (or if you need the 32 bit version, go to https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases to see more download options)
  2. Extract the file into your Downloads folder
  3. Open a console and run sudo mv ~/Downloads/geckodriver /usr/bin

Upvotes: 6

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