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YogiX
YogiX

Reputation: 51

Chrome driver - Selenium

I'm a new student of programmin and I'm trying to use Chromedriver and Selenium for the first time. I definitely can't access to the downloaded file, don't know why. This is my input:

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path = "/Users/silvia/Desktop/executables/chromedriver")

As you can see below, the result I get is the following. Says there's no such file on my Desktop, but there is! I tried with backslash, double backslash and everything. Maybe I should try the whole process from the beginning! Any idea of why not working? Thank you in advance!

This is the error message:

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FileNotFoundError                         Traceback (most recent call last)
/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py in start(self)
     71             cmd.extend(self.command_line_args())
---> 72             self.process = subprocess.Popen(cmd, env=self.env,
     73                                             close_fds=platform.system() != 'Windows',

/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py in __init__(self, args, bufsize, executable, stdin, stdout, stderr, preexec_fn, close_fds, shell, cwd, env, universal_newlines, startupinfo, creationflags, restore_signals, start_new_session, pass_fds, encoding, errors, text)
    853 
--> 854             self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
    855                                 pass_fds, cwd, env,

/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py in _execute_child(self, args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds, pass_fds, cwd, env, startupinfo, creationflags, shell, p2cread, p2cwrite, c2pread, c2pwrite, errread, errwrite, restore_signals, start_new_session)
   1701                         err_msg = os.strerror(errno_num)
-> 1702                     raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
   1703                 raise child_exception_type(err_msg)

**FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Users/silvia/Desktop/executables/chromedriver'**

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

WebDriverException                        Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-6-a1abac069770> in <module>
      1 from selenium import webdriver
      2 
----> 3 driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path = "/Users/silviafabbi/Desktop/executables/chromedriver.exe")

/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py in __init__(self, executable_path, port, options, service_args, desired_capabilities, service_log_path, chrome_options, keep_alive)
     71             service_args=service_args,
     72             log_path=service_log_path)
---> 73         self.service.start()
     74 
     75         try:

/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py in start(self)
     79 except OSError as err:
     80 if err.errno == errno.ENOENT:
---> 81 raise WebDriverException(
     82 "'%s' executable needs to be in PATH. %s" % (
     83 os.path.basename(self.path), self.start_error_message)

WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver.exe' executable needs to be in PATH. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1384

Answers (3)

Danilo Ferreira
Danilo Ferreira

Reputation: 11

I dont know if you have already solved it, but this also happened to me and I realized that after downloading chromedriver I forgot to put the file inside the very same directory where python.exe is located. Usually, you can find your python.exe file by going to (C:) --> Users --> your User and finally anaconda3 directory (considering that you have installed anaconda package, which I highly recommend). Put your chromedriver file inside anaconda3 directory, which is the exact same place where you can find python.exe. And thats it! After doing this, I could run my code without a problem. Greetings from Brazil! ;)

Upvotes: 1

Pygirl
Pygirl

Reputation: 13349

Without giving executable path:

You can use webdriver_manage (install it by pip install webdriver_manager)

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager

chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install(), chrome_options=chrome_options)

Upvotes: 3

kennysliding
kennysliding

Reputation: 2987

Silvia, try

C:/Users/silvia/Desktop/executables/chromedriver

or whatever your harddisk name it is

Upvotes: 1

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