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Sultan Morbiwala
Sultan Morbiwala

Reputation: 171

Where to place ChromeDriver while executing tests through selenium in python?

I installed selenium and downloaded chromedriver.exe When i run the code in my gitbash terminal then its working but not working when I run a python script in visual studio code.

On internet it say to put the file in the path but i don't know much about it. Where should i place the chromedriver.exe?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 7112

Answers (4)

littlejiver
littlejiver

Reputation: 255

driver=webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\Users\littl\Downloads\chromedriver_win32\chromedriver.exe')

Upvotes: 1

undetected Selenium
undetected Selenium

Reputation: 193128

Short answer is anywhere

As per your question you can put the ChromeDriver anywhere within your local system and when you initialize the WebDriver and Web Browser pass the Key executable_path mentioning the absolute path of the ChromeDriver as follows:

  • Windows OS style

    driver=webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\path\to\chromedriver.exe')

  • Linux OS style

    driver=webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='/path/to/chromedriver')

  • MacLinux OS X style

    driver=webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='/path/to/chromedriver')

Note: Avoid accessing ChromeDriver placed in shared drives.

Upvotes: 0

Pratap Muthukrishnan
Pratap Muthukrishnan

Reputation: 31

I use Anaconda for which i placed chromedriver.exe in the following

C:\Users\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\Scripts

Upvotes: 0

MatrixTXT
MatrixTXT

Reputation: 2502

Simple answer is Anywhere.

Add the path for where you put the driver by command line:

set PATH=%PATH%;C:\WHERE_I_PUT_THEDRIVER\

Or

In Your Control Panel -> All Control Panel Items -> System -> Advanced System Setting -> Advanced -> Environment Variable -> System Variable -> [Choose] Path -> [Click] Edit

So when you import it.

from selenium import webdriver

wd = webdriver.Chrome()

Or, if you prefer not to add new path,

from selenium import webdriver

__location__ = os.path.realpath(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), os.path.dirname(__file__)))
#__location__ is current file location
driver_loca = os.path.join(__location__, 'bin/chromedriver.exe')
wd = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path= driver_loca)

Upvotes: 1

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