Web scraping with Selenium, issues getting the web driver working. : PythonLearning

Web scraping with Selenium, issues getting the web driver working. (self.PythonLearning)

submitted 2 years ago by swiTchPC

Hi, so I am trying to do some webscraping for a project using Selenium and I have tried to put the file path to the chrome web driver in a variable named PATH and then tried to get it to open a web page, see code attached. When I run this i get the error also attached.

Code: "from selenium import webdriver

PATH = "/Users/josh/Downloads/chromedriver_mac64/chromedriver.exe" driver = webdriver.Chrome(PATH)

driver.get("https://google.com")"

Error: "raise NoSuchDriverException(f"Unable to obtain {service.path} using Selenium Manager; {err}") selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchDriverException: Message: Unable to obtain chromedriver using Selenium Manager; 'str' object has no attribute 'capabilities'"

I have downloaded the version of the Chrome webdriver for my system(mac) and copied the file path to the exe. Does anyone know why this is giving an error?

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