I'm following a tutorial on using selenium and I'm having trouble getting started. Namely, when I try to run the code below, I get the error below. I have seen other users with the same problem, I have tried their solutions, they did not work.
These solutions include:
running pycharm as administrator,
setting permissions for all
group/usernames of subprocess.py and service.py
site-package(and pretty much every file/folder within) to full
access.
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(r"C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome")
driver.get("http://python.org")
Here is the full error message:
Traceback (most recent call last): File
"C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py",
line 76, in start
stdin=PIPE) File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\subprocess.py",
line 775, in init
restore_signals, start_new_session) File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\subprocess.py",
line 1178, in _execute_child
startupinfo) PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last): File
"C:/Users/User/PycharmProjects/PythonProject/DataCollection", line 2,
in
driver = webdriver.Chrome(r"C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome")
File
"C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py",
line 73, in init
self.service.start() File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py",
line 88, in start
os.path.basename(self.path), self.start_error_message) selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'chrome'
executable may have wrong permissions. Please see
https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home
first, replace all \ with /
and then add the executable filename in the file location:
driver = webdriver.Chrome(r'C:/Users/User/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python37-32/Lib/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/chromedriver.exe')
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selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH error with Headless Chrome
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I am on Windows pro 10 and using Firefox to execute the python selenium program.
Trying to run:
from selenium import webdriver
wb = webdriver.Firefox()
wb.get("https://stackoverflow.com")
Getting the following error(please ignore the web browser in the error message) :
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\dilri\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site- packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 74, in start
stdout=self.log_file, stderr=self.log_file)
File "C:\Users\dilri\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36- 32\lib\subprocess.py", line 707, in __init__
restore_signals, start_new_session)
File "C:\Users\dilri\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36- 32\lib\subprocess.py", line 990, 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 "H:\temp.py", line 2, in <module>
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
File "C:\Users\dilri\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site- packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py", line 62, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "C:\Users\dilri\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site- packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 81, 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
As clearly mentioned in the error message, very first install the appropriate browser driver and give its path to the system variable path.
Like in my case:
from selenium import webdriver
driver_path = r"G:\Python\geckodriver.exe" #since on windows use raw strings
wb = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=driver_path)
# to check if it's working
wb.get("https://stackoverflow.com")
Remember: the driver path must be a raw string since we are working on windows.
Also, see to it that you don't give the file name as selenium.py
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selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH error with Headless Chrome
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WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH while setting UserAgent through Selenium Chromedriver python
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Closed 3 years ago.
I wanted to try autologin with Python but I get this error when I´m compiling:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\thega\PycharmProjects\untitled\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 76, in start
stdin=PIPE)
File "C:\Users\thega\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\subprocess.py", line 769, in __init__
restore_signals, start_new_session)
File "C:\Users\thega\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\lib\subprocess.py", line 1172, 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/thega/PycharmProjects/untitled/test.py", line 10, in <module>
driver = webdriver.Chrome('C:/Users/thega/Downloads/chromedriverwin64/')
File "C:\Users\thega\PycharmProjects\untitled\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py", line 73, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "C:\Users\thega\PycharmProjects\untitled\venv\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: '' executable needs to be in PATH. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home
Process finished with exit code 1
I´m using this code from Internet(it should work fine):
from selenium import webdriver
import time
username = 'name'
password = 'passwd'
url = 'https://www.page.net/'
driver = webdriver.Chrome('C:/Users/thega/Downloads/chromedriverwin64/')
driver.get(url)
driver.find_element_by_id('inputUsername').send_keys(username)
driver.find_element_by_id('inputPassword').send_keys(password)
time.sleep(2)
driver.find_element_by_id('loginButton').click()
PS: I´m new to Python.
PS2: I´m using PyCharm if that helps.
And yes, I have already installed selenium.
Thanks for any help.
I am following this tutorial on web scraping https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-easy-scraping-data-from-linkedin-profiles-david-craven/. The python script is generating errors and I've already tried adding the directory to the PATH and it shows when I echo the path to the screen, but now it shows "/Users/owner/Users/owner" when there should just be one "Users/owner" in the path.
I'm using bash inside mac os High Sierra and am a data science major so DevOps is a challenge for me as well as learning how to post code to StackOverflow but I'm trying to document my steps so it will be easier to troubleshoot this.
I pip installed selenium
I downloaded chromedriver to the directory for my webscraping script file and double clicked it to run
I thought I added the directory to my PATH with 'export PATH=$PATH:~opt/bin:~/Users/owner/sbox/test/pandas_sqlite_dbase/chromedriver' which are the directions I found from http://osxdaily.com/2014/08/14/add-new-path-to-path-command-line/
I updated PIP
The directory I want to run the script from is '/Users/owner/sbox/test/pandas_sqlite_dbase'
There was another SO post Can a website detect when you are using selenium with chromedriver? that talked about how chromedriver with selenium was now auto detected and disabled... so am I trying to scrape with an outdated code base?
I can post my whole PATH or give other info.
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome('~/Users/owner/sbox/test/pandas_sqlite_dbase/googlechrome')
driver.get('https://www.linkedin.com')
Now I am getting a traceback error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/owner/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 76, in start
stdin=PIPE)
File "/Users/owner/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/subprocess.py", line 775, in __init__
restore_signals, start_new_session)
File "/Users/owner/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/subprocess.py", line 1522, in _execute_child
raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '~/Users/owner/sbox/test/pandas_sqlite_dbase/googlechrome': '~/Users/owner/sbox/test/pandas_sqlite_dbase/googlechrome'
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/owner/sbox/test/pandas_sqlite_dbase/scraping_tutorial.py", line 7, in <module>
driver = webdriver.Chrome('~/Users/owner/sbox/test/pandas_sqlite_dbase/googlechrome')
File "/Users/owner/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 73, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "/Users/owner/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/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: 'googlechrome' executable needs to be in PATH. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home
[Finished in 0.7s with exit code 1]
[shell_cmd: python -u "/Users/owner/sbox/test/pandas_sqlite_dbase/scraping_tutorial.py"]
[dir: /Users/owner/sbox/test/pandas_sqlite_dbase]
[path: /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin]
I would check what ~ actually is (seems you have the concept bad) usually is home dir, so, for a user, your "Users/owner", that's why you are obtaining "Users/owner/Users/owner".
To check this, you can
$>cd ~
$>pwd
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!!
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")
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.
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.
I just copied selenium script from web and trying to learn selenium python automation.
Here is the script
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://www.facebook.com")
While running I got following error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\hpatel\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 76, in start
stdin=PIPE)
File "C:\Users\hpatel\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\subprocess.py", line 756, in __init__
restore_signals, start_new_session)
File "C:\Users\hpatel\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\subprocess.py", line 1155, 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\hpatel\python\PythonLearn\src\Example1.py", line 8, in <module>
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
File "C:\Users\hpatel\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\webdriver.py", line 160, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "C:\Users\hpatel\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: 'geckodriver' executable needs to be in PATH.
What is the issue?
I copied geckodriver file to c drive and define the path too.
Just replace this line :
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
To:
driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path = r'C:/Users/user***/Downloads/geckodriver-v0.20.1-win64/geckodriver.exe')