selenium script doesn't run in python

Question

Tried executing

from selenium import webdriver browser=webdriver.Chrome() browser.get('http://www.google.com') 

but doesn't execute and throws error

=RESTART: C:\Users\Phani\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\drive.py = Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\Phani\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 76, in start stdin=PIPE) File "C:\Users\Phani\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\subprocess.py", line 775, in __init__ restore_signals, start_new_session) File "C:\Users\Phani\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\subprocess.py", line 1178, in _execute_child startupinfo) FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified 

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\Phani\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\drive.py", line 4, in <module> browser=webdriver.Chrome() File "C:\Users\Phani\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py", line 73, in __init__ self.service.start() File "C:\Users\Phani\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 83, in start os.path.basename(self.path), self.start_error_message) selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home 

properly installed selenium using pip install

Please Help!!

Answer 1

This isn't working because you haven't provide path of the chrome driver.WebDriver doesn't know where is the chromedriver path.

driver = webdriver.Chrome("path of the chrome driver Chromedriver.exe") 

for example:

from selenium import webdriver driver = webdriver.Chrome("d:/chromedriver/Chromedriver.exe") driver.get("https://www.google.com") 

Answer 2

You can try Firefox for this purpose:

First Download Geckodriver from here: https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/tag/v0.24.0

from selenium import webdriver fox = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path='/path/to/downloaded/gecko/driver') fox.get("https://www.google.com") 

Same could be done with google chrome :

You can download chrome driver from here:

https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home 

No need to setup PATH variable.

Answer 3

I have just fixed the issue. You need to download an updated version of Google Chrome. For instance, my old version was 96 but now it is 101. That is it.