I was recently working with web automation, with Selenium and python, and I faced into the error almost everyone got.
from selenium import webdriver
window = webdriver.Firefox()
window.get("https://ecoledirecte.com")
But I looked up for several answers, and None of them worked ! I tried the solution for this question, but nothing changed. I checked several times, and the geckodriver is in PATH (I extracted the file into my Downloads folder, then moved the executable into my main folder). I checked if indicating the mozilla geckovriver folder in the calling of webdriver.Firefox() would help (webdriver.Firefox("C:\\Users\\user\\Downloads\\mozilla-geckodriver-9b5f85c")), but no.
Is there any reason for that ?
I think I once put it in my System32 folder (which is in PATH!) but this is probably a little sketchy. Wherever you put the geckodriver, you just have to add that location to your PATH environment variable.
Try following this instruction:
http://www.learningaboutelectronics.com/Articles/How-to-install-geckodriver-Python-windows.php
I believe you could also install in the same folder where your python file is located - it should probably pick up that folder (but I'm not sure).
this is an easy solution:
webdriver.Firefox(executable_path='Your full path to the geckodriver executable'+'geckodriver')
I have spent hours trying to get this working to no avail. I am trying to run this test script:
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("https://www.nytimes.com")
headlines = driver.find_elements_by_class_name("story-heading")
for headline in headlines:
print(headline.text.strip())
I have installed selenium and downloaded chromedriver as well as adding it to my PATH using sudo nano /etc/paths and adding entering the path /Users/Myname/Desktop/chromedriver. I closed out the terminal and checked it using echo $PATH and that path showed in my PATH so I'm sure it's there and /Users/Myname/Desktop/chromedriver is the location of my chromedriver exe file. However when I run the .py script above it returns "'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH." and I don't know what else to try.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
You have to add the actual path to the *.exe or chromedriver.exe in the function call, there is no need to add it to your PC's PATH variable.
NOTE: Just to clarify, for example
driver = webdriver.Chrome("/Users/Myname/Desktop/chromedriver.exe") # In Actual Add The Path To chromedriver.exe or whatever *.exe in here
Only you can know where you exe is located so just add the exe path in the function rest it will be done for you.
Happy Coding!
I have automated a task using selenium in python and now I am compiling exe from that script.
From what I know I wrote this piece of code in my script.
PATH = "/home/blackhawk/tools/webdriver/chrome/chromedriver"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(PATH)
Here the script is using chromdriver from my machine. Currently, my application is explicitly asking for the path of chromedriver.
Is there any way I can add this file inside my application.
What changes I should do to my PATH varible as well to make it work.
Here is the repository with test.py
In order to install Selenium, step 3 on (this site indicates needing to install the chromedriver file in your PATH. I am on a work computer that does not have access to the system PATH directly. I have tried listing in the local PATH (I'm on Windows 7) variable chain like so: C:\Users\mknerr\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\Scripts\;C:\Users\mknerr\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\;C:\Users\mknerr\AppData\Local\atom\bin;C:\Users\mknerr\Programs\ChromeDriver\
(The .exe is in the ChromeDriver folder)
When I run the script with webDriver.Chrome(), I still get a WebDriverException that chromedriver needs to be in my PATH. If anyone has an idea why this isn't working from my local PATH, I'd love to hear them.
However, my real question is when I distribute this script to the rest of my team, they will likely have the same issue since my script will be calling chromedriver, which none of them will have installed, much less in their PATH. Can Python directly install a program or dependency in the PATH so they don't have to go directly accessing environment variables? I can guarantee nobody is going to feel comfortable doing that.
You can place chromedriver.exe in the same folder as the executable. Just run the program with the driver right next to it.
In our internal automation framework, we actually just distribute the Chromedriver executable as part of the framework, in the same folder as the framework's entry point.
Then, whenever we need a browser session, we do something similar to this:
import os
from selenium import webdriver
chromedriver_location = os.path.join(
os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), 'chromedriver.exe')
context.browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=chromedriver_location)
chromedriver.exe is the default Windows name of the executable, of course; change to whatever you need.
This avoids any user setup other than installing the framework itself. No messing with PATH or any other local files.
I've installed Firefox and Selenium on centos. I'm using Xvfb and pyvirtualdisplay to open the browser.
When I try to run selenium webdriver, I'm able to open a new display but as soon as I do
browser = webdriver.Firefox()
I get the error:
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 134, in __init__
self.service = Service(executable_path, log_path=log_path)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/service.py", line 45, in __init__
log_file = open(log_path, "a+")
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'geckodriver.log'
Any clues on what's going wrong here?
EDIT : After overcoming the permission error, I'm getting
Message: 'geckodriver' executable needs to be in PATH
I had this same issue recently on a Windows 10 workstation. I fixed it by explicitly setting the service_log_path to a location I know I've got write access to:
browser = webdriver.Firefox(
service_log_path="C:\\Users\\[username]\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\geckodriver.log"
)
Apparently this can come from an incompatibility between your firefox and your Selenium. Try pip install --upgrade selenium, and if the error is still there, try downloading a different version of Firefox, or of the gecko driver.
Regarding the message:
'geckodriver' executable needs to be in PATH
You could set the path of the driver on the script:
ff_profile_dir = "/usr/local/selenium/webdriver/firefox"
ff_profile = selenium.webdriver.FirefoxProfile(profile_directory=ff_profile_dir)
driver = selenium.webdriver.Firefox(ff_profile)
Or, according to this answer, you could run, on Unix systems, on a bash-compatible shell:
export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/directory/of/executable/downloaded/in/previous/step
On Windows you will need to update the Path system variable to add the
full directory path to the executable geckodriver manually or command
line(don't forget to restart your system after adding executable
geckodriver into system PATH to take effect). The principle is the
same as on Unix.
I was having the same problem. I tried using Ivan Chaer's answer, but it didn't work. I tried a whole bunch of other things until I finally came across a working solution. All the time I had been trying to run Selenium, I had been using the interactive shell. When I tried putting the code in a script and then running it instead, everything worked fine.
I then noticed that a file named "geckodriver.log" had been created in the same directory as the script. That gave me an idea. I created a "geckodriver.log" file in C:\Program Files\Python36 and then using Selenium with Firefox no longer threw any errors.
The following solution worked for me. In my case I was starting my Python script from within the Windows Notepad++ application. My geckodriver.exe was in the PATH and happened to be located in my C:\Python 27 folder. A full path to Firefox was also provided. Selenium, geckodriver and Firefox were all on the latest versions.
It turn out that the geckodriver.log file was being created here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\geckodriver.log
I found this by running Notepad++ as an Administrator. It was then able to create the file where it wanted. I then located the file and changed the file permissions to full access for the normal user account on Windows (it was set to be read only).
After doing this, I was able to run Notepad++ normally and the error was gone.
I had the same issue while working with python IDLE.
I just ran IDLE shell as Administrator.
Now on running the commands below works fine.
from selenium import webdriver
browser = webdriver.Firefox() #opens up a new Firefox window
I had this exact same error.
[Errno 13] Permission denied: 'geckodriver.log'
The problem was not at all with this .log file.
The real problem was that my script (.py file) and the geckodriver.exe were not located in the same folder.
Once I put them in the same folder, the problem was solved and the function was executed normally.
browser = webdriver.Firefox()
Hope this helps.
I had the exact same problem. I went on the selenium's pypi page. In the Drivers section they talk about geckodriver and you can find the link to the geckodriver executable that suits your browser and OS.
I just downloaded it, unzipped it and then placed the geckodriver.exe file in C:\Program Files\Python37 (Python37 is already in my PATH). And it now works fine.
in my case, geckodriver.log was created on the script folder, but by root user, from a previous execution, them running again as a normal user python didn't have access to file and fail
I was having the same problem trying to run an interactive shell exactly where my webdriver (I'm using Firefox's geckodriver) was and nothing happened, and what I came to the conclusion of is that the directory doesn't have writing privileges when you make it, therefore I set writing privileges using chmod (on Linux) and everything worked as intended. Be sure to check on privileges first to see if you can create the geckodriver.log file in the first place.
Had the same problem with Permission denied: 'geckodriver.log'
Tried a few of the options above, to no avail.
I was launching my script as a bat file from Windows scheduler. By default this runs in windows\system32...where you don't want to put the log and is a protected path.
Fixed it by updating the bat file to move to the my source code python folder
cd "C:\Users\[username]\mypy"
python.exe simpleSelenium.py
pause