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vlad1364
vlad1364

Reputation: 5

Receiving error message when running python selenium, WebDriverException error code in Jupyter notebook?

when I am trying to extract data from a website and am experimenting with code. I have downloaded chromedriver already. When I run the following code through Jupyter notebooks I receive an error:

from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
import datetime as dt
import pandas as pd

# Opening the connection and grabbing the page
my_url = 'https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en'
option = Options()
option.headless = False
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=option)
driver.get(my_url)
driver.maximize_window()

Here is the error code:

Error message:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
FileNotFoundError                         Traceback (most recent call last)
~\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py in start(self)
     75                                             stderr=self.log_file,
---> 76                                             stdin=PIPE)
     77         except TypeError:

~\anaconda3\lib\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)
    799                                 errread, errwrite,
--> 800                                 restore_signals, start_new_session)
    801         except:

~\anaconda3\lib\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, unused_restore_signals, unused_start_new_session)
   1206                                          os.fspath(cwd) if cwd is not None else None,
-> 1207                                          startupinfo)
   1208             finally:

FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

WebDriverException                        Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-33-39e43e779b64> in <module>
----> 1 driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=option)

~\anaconda3\lib\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:

~\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py in start(self)
     81                 raise WebDriverException(
     82                     "'%s' executable needs to be in PATH. %s" % (
---> 83                         os.path.basename(self.path), self.start_error_message)
     84                 )
     85             elif err.errno == errno.EACCES:

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

Please help! Any ideas on how to fix are greatly appreicated!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 317

Answers (1)

goalie1998
goalie1998

Reputation: 1432

The last line says it all:

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

You have to download chromedriver from Google

Upvotes: 1

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