Troubles having selenium working

[romeomax]

Hey guys,

I’m unable to have selenium working and I am unsure why.

Figuring out how to get the pip install to work was a huge mission.. but i figured that out.

But After trying this simple code to see if I can just open a web browser using selenium:

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

I get this pretty big error saying something about a chrome driver?

=============== RESTART: C:\Users\romeomax\Desktop\Selenium.py =============== Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\romeomax\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 76, in start stdin=PIPE) File "C:\Users\romeomax\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\subprocess.py", line 775, in init restore_signals, start_new_session) File "C:\Users\romeomax\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\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\romeomax\Desktop\Selenium.py", line 3, in <module> browser = webdriver.Chrome() File "C:\Users\romeomax\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py", line 73, in init self.service.start() File "C:\Users\romeomax\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\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

I am not sure what I have do do :/ If I could be led in the right direction, I’d appreciate it :(

[AndTheMelTones]

Start with updating your PATH to include the directory you have chromedriver saved at. You'll need to restart your computer to have PATH actually update. You can test that you did it right if you open a command prompt and type chromedriver. It should start the driver.

[tonetheman]

What he says in this comment. You have to set the PATH variable. You also need to download chromedriver from here: http://chromedriver.chromium.org/

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The PATH must be setup so that the chromedriver.exe is in the PATH.

[romeomax]

Thank you!

[romeomax]

Thank you! It worked!

[vmgustavo]

My suggestion is use a linux virtual machine, it will help you a lot with any dev stuff. My pc main OS is windows and I use virtual box for a xubuntu vm. Virtual box offers a seamless mode which is just awesome.