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Nor TA

Reputation: 1

can't conda install chromedriver

So i'm working on a little project where i scrape yahoo news comments.

There has a error when I try to install chromedriver.

I wonder that I made some mistake, I would be appreciate it if someone could tell me.

(base) PS C:\Users\aaa> conda install chromedriver
Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): done
Solving environment: failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with flexible solve.
Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): done
Solving environment: failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with flexible solve.

PackagesNotFoundError: The following packages are not available from current channels:

  - chromedriver

Current channels:

  - https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/win-64
  - https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/noarch
  - https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/win-64
  - https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/noarch
  - https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/msys2/win-64
  - https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/msys2/noarch

To search for alternate channels that may provide the conda package you're
looking for, navigate to

    https://anaconda.org

and use the search bar at the top of the page.

than when I downloaded the file from <sites.google.com/chromium.org/driver> and open the exe file, that showed

Starting ChromeDriver 93.0.4577.63 (ff5c0da2ec0adeaed5550e6c7e98417dac77d98a-refs/branch-heads/4577@{#1135}) on port 9515
Only local connections are allowed.
Please see https://chromedriver.chromium.org/security-considerations for suggestions on keeping ChromeDriver safe.
ChromeDriver was started successfully.

when I run the code

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()

that showed the error :

WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: cannot find Chrome binary
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.38.552522 (437e6fbedfa8762dec75e2c5b3ddb86763dc9dcb),platform=Windows NT 10.0.19043 x86_64)

I wonder if the chrome version is too old.

what should I do?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1788

Answers (1)

lynx
lynx

Reputation: 1

I found this command here

 conda install -c conda-forge python-chromedriver-binary

EDIT:

the chrome driver requires that you specify google chrome and chromedriver paths.

first you need to download the chromedriver from here, then in your python code add the paths as follows:

from selenium import webdriver

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.binary_location = r"<YOUR_CHROME_PATH>\chrome.exe"
chrome_driver_path = r"<PATH_TO_CHROME_DRIVER>\chromedriver.exe>"

browser = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_driver_path, options=options)

Upvotes: 0

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