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Soudip Karmakar
Soudip Karmakar

Reputation: 77

WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver.exe' executable may have wrong permissions using Google Colaboratory through Selenium Python

I am using Google Chrome version 83.0.4103.116 and ChromeDriver 83.0.4103.39. I am trying to use chrome driver in google colab. I use the path of chromedriver after uploading it in google colab. Could you please point out where i m getting error. This is the code

import selenium
from selenium import webdriver
wd = webdriver.Chrome(r'/content/chromedriver.exe')

This is the error

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
PermissionError                           Traceback (most recent call last)
/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py in start(self)
     75                                             stderr=self.log_file,
---> 76                                             stdin=PIPE)
     77         except TypeError:

4 frames
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/content/chromedriver.exe'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

WebDriverException                        Traceback (most recent call last)
/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py in start(self)
     86                 raise WebDriverException(
     87                     "'%s' executable may have wrong permissions. %s" % (
---> 88                         os.path.basename(self.path), self.start_error_message)
     89                 )
     90             else:

WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver.exe' executable may have wrong permissions. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home

Upvotes: 3

Views: 7585

Answers (2)

undetected Selenium
undetected Selenium

Reputation: 193108

Google Colaboratory

Colaboratory is a free Jupyter notebook environment that requires no setup and runs entirely in the cloud which enables us to write and execute code, save and share your analyses, and access powerful computing resources, all for free from your browser.

The entire colab runs in a cloud VM. If you investigate the VM you will find that the current colab notebook is running on top of Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS.

So while using Selenium instead of mentioning the WebDriver variant along with the extension i.e. .exe you need to drop the extension. So effectively your code block will be:

import selenium
from selenium import webdriver
wd = webdriver.Chrome('/content/chromedriver')

Update

Incase you aren't sure where the ChromeDriver is getting downloaded you can move it to a known location and use it as follows:

!apt-get update
!apt install chromium-chromedriver
!cp /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromedriver /usr/bin
!pip install selenium

from selenium import webdriver
wd = webdriver.Chrome('/usr/bin/chromedriver')

References

You can find a couple of detailed relevant discussions in:

Upvotes: 2

korakot
korakot

Reputation: 40828

I made a library to help using selenium in Colab easier.

You can just call this

!pip install kora -q
from kora.selenium import wd
wd.get(url)

Upvotes: 0

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