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DreamVision2017
DreamVision2017

Reputation: 372

Selenium WebDriverException 'chromedriver.exe' needs to be in PATH

I'm trying to use selenium for a python web scraper but when I try to run the program I get the following error:

/usr/local/bin/python3 /Users/xxx/Documents/Python/hello.py                                     
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 72, in start
    self.process = subprocess.Popen(cmd, env=self.env,
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 854, in __init__
    self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 1702, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Users/xxx/Documents/Python/chromedriver.exe'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/xxx/Documents/Python/hello.py", line 9, in <module>
    wd = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=DRIVER_PATH)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 73, in __init__
    self.service.start()
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 81, in start
    raise WebDriverException(
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver.exe' executable needs to be in PATH. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home

Here is the python code:

from urllib.request import urlopen
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import re
from selenium import webdriver


DRIVER_PATH = '/Users/xxx/Documents/Python/chromedriver.exe'

wd = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=DRIVER_PATH)

I think the problem is that I'm not specifying the file path in the variable DRIVER_PATH properly but I'm not sure

I am using a Mac

Upvotes: 0

Views: 7878

Answers (3)

Rawf9
Rawf9

Reputation: 1

You have a mistake in the name of the file.

"chomedriver.exe" is for windows.

If you use macOS and chromedriver for Mac, then the file name should be "chomedriver" without ".exe".

I had the same problem, but this solved it.

Upvotes: 0

CEH
CEH

Reputation: 5909

You need to update DRIVER_PATH to include your root directory, which is usually C:\:

DRIVER_PATH = 'C:/Users/xxx/Documents/Python/chromedriver.exe'

Alternatively, you can follow this tutorial to add the path to containing folder of chromedriver.exe (usually chromedriver_win32 folder) to your Path environment variable:

https://docs.telerik.com/teststudio/features/test-runners/add-path-environment-variables

Upvotes: 2

Blake Daniel
Blake Daniel

Reputation: 100

I would try this out (Just adding the 'r'):

wd = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'/Users/xxx/Documents/Python/chromedriver.exe')

if you think it's the filepath then have a go with checking:

import os.path
os.path.exists(DRIVER_PATH)

Also, Beautifulsoup is used will with urllib2 https://www.pythonforbeginners.com/beautifulsoup/beautifulsoup-4-python

import urllib2
url = "https://www.URL.com"
content = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
soup = BeautifulSoup(content)

Upvotes: 2

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