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FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Users/fuadhafiz/Documents\\chromedriver.exec' error using Selenium on MAC OSX

I am trying to learn how to use selenium and python as well i am trying to follow this video :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjv1sY630Uc&ab_channel=TechWithTim
This is the code I have :
from selenium import webdriver
PATH = "/Users/fuadhafiz/Documents\chromedriver.exec"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(PATH)
driver.get("https://stackoverflow.com")
But this is what keeps coming up on the terminal ( I am using VS Code and am on mac)
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/bin/python3 "/Users/fuadhafiz/Documents/Python Projects/Selenium Automation /Web Scraping (1)/web_scraping_attempt.py"
fuadhafiz#Fuads-iMac Web Scraping (1) % /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/bin/python3 "/Users/fuadhafiz/Documents/Python Projects/Selenium Automation /Web Scraping (1)/web_scraping_attempt.py"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 72, in start
self.process = subprocess.Popen(cmd, env=self.env,
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 947, in __init__
self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 1819, in _execute_child
raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Users/fuadhafiz/Documents\\chromedriver.exec'
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/fuadhafiz/Documents/Python Projects/Selenium Automation /Web Scraping (1)/web_scraping_attempt.py", line 4, in <module>
driver = webdriver.Chrome(PATH)
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 73, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 81, in start
raise WebDriverException(
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'Documents\chromedriver.exec' executable needs to be in PATH. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home
and in the "problems" section
Anomalous backslash in string: '\c'. String constant might be missing an r prefix.
This is were the chrome driver is saved :

You were almost there. In macos systems the extension for the ChromeDriver binary isn't required. So effectively your code block will be:
from selenium import webdriver
PATH = "/Users/fuadhafiz/Documents/chromedriver"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(PATH)
driver.get("https://stackoverflow.com")
References
You can find a couple of detailed relevant discussions in:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'geckodriver': 'geckodriver' with GeckoDriver and Python in MAC OS

see error message you are using wrong file extension .exec instead of .exe
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Users/fuadhafiz/Documents\\chromedriver.exec'
try this instead
from selenium import webdriver
PATH = "/Users/fuadhafiz/Documents\chromedriver.exe"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(PATH)
driver.get("https://stackoverflow.com")
I am also using mac so install chromedriver in default PATH saves so much trouble of adding path each time
brew cask install chromedriver
now you can simply call
driver = webdriver.Chrome()

Python Selenium geckodriver required in path

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/ubuntu/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 76, in start
stdin=PIPE)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 729, in __init__
restore_signals, start_new_session)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 1364, in _execute_child
raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/ubuntu/bin/python/DLX/geckodriver': '/home/ubuntu/bin/python/DLX/geckodriver'
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 25, in <module>
driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=geckoPath,options=options)
File "/home/ubuntu/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 164, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "/home/ubuntu/.local/lib/python3.6/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.
The above is the error I am getting while trying to use geckodriver and selenium. Geckodriver is in the path /home/ubuntu/bin/python/DLX/, that path has been added to the PATH var and I can see it when using echo $PATH. Below is the code I'm trying to get running.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.firefox_binary import FirefoxBinary
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.common.proxy import Proxy, ProxyType
from selenium.webdriver import DesiredCapabilities
from sys import platform
# setting browser to be heaadless
options = Options()
options.add_argument("--headless")
#Telling it where to find the required file
currentDir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
geckoPath = os.path.realpath(os.path.join(currentDir,'geckodriver'))
print(geckoPath)
binary = FirefoxBinary(geckoPath)
driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=geckoPath,options=options)
I've looked at other posts, tried their fixes and I've still got the issue. Running it on RPI3b+ Ubuntu server if that helps.
Selenium Ver=3.141.0
geckodriver ver=v0.23.0
Edit:
PATH is as follows
/home/ubuntu/.cargo/bin:/home/ubuntu/.local/bin:/home/ubuntu/bin:/home/ubuntu/.cargo/bin:/home/ubuntu/.local/bin:/home/ubuntu/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/home/ubuntu/bin/python/DLX

It would be fine if you create once driver folder in you project and place geckodriver there and provide path as mentioned below.
Lets say folder name is drivers
firefox_driver = "/drivers/geckodriver"
driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=firefox_driver,options=options)

selenium script doesn't run in python

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.

OSError: [Errno 8] Exec format error with GeckoDriver and Selenium on MacOS

I am using firefox gecko driver to make a bot, I keep getting error messages with my bot and I have found that the source of the message is the:
from selenium import webdriver
browser= webdriver.Firefox()
lines.
I have added every file mentioned in the error message to path including gecko driver, firefox, and the other smaller documents. I am at a complete loss
Here is the error message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/fuckobot1.py", line 3, in <module>
browser= webdriver.Firefox()
File "/Users/'myname'/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 164, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "/Users/'myname'/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 76, in start
stdin=PIPE)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 710, in __init__
errread, errwrite)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1335, in _execute_child
raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 8] Exec format error

This error message...
OSError: [Errno 8] Exec format error
...implies that the GeckoDriver binary which was invoked was not in proper format.
Your main issue is the incompatibility of the GeckoDriver binary format with respect to the underlying Operating System.
As you are on MacOS you need to download geckodriver-v0.23.0-macos.tar.gz from mozilla/geckodriver, untar/unzip it and provide the absolute path of the GeckoDriver through the argument executable_path as follows:
from selenium import webdriver
browser= webdriver.Firefox(executable_path='/path/to/geckodriver')

This may be answer to this issue,
when it shows something like, Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible.
Actual problem is, Firefox 48.0 or greater not works with selenium 3.0.0 or greater version.
so please check your versions.
so, to make it work you need to update with recent selenium and respective geckodriver version too that fixes this issue.
then try basic commands,
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver = webdriver.Firefox()

browser = webdriver.Chrome() not working

I am getting started with Selenium for python and have this:
from selenium import webdriver
browser = webdriver.Chrome()
However it gives this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Bradley Jo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-
packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 74, in start
stdout=self.log_file, stderr=self.log_file)
File "C:\Users\Bradley
Jo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\subprocess.py", line 709, in
__init__
restore_signals, start_new_session)
File "C:\Users\Bradley
Jo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\subprocess.py", line 997, 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\Bradley Jo\Desktop\Project\app.py", line 3, in
<module>
browser = webdriver.Chrome()
File "C:\Users\Bradley Jo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-
packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py", line 68, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "C:\Users\Bradley Jo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\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
[Finished in 1.0s]
Anyone have any idea how to fix this? Thanks

For windows:
Check you have installed latest version of chrome browser
If not, install latest version of chrome
download the latest(or appropriate) version of chromedriver from here
Paste the chromedriver.exe file in "<Install Dir>/Python27/Scripts" Folder.
The below code should work now:
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()

You just need to pass the Chromedriver.exe's path in below command
from selenium import webdriver
webdriver.Chrome(Chromedriver.exe's path)
Then it starts working

From the error message:
'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH.
It's clear that you need to pass the path of Chrome web driver in webdriver.Chrome
driver_path = "/Users/amit/Downloads/chromedriver"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(driver_path)

My guess is that the problem comes from your path that contains a space ("Bradley Jo"):
C:\Users\Bradley Jo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py
You may try to put your webdriver elsewhere.

The error says it all as follows :
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home
You need to override any other existing paths and pass the absolute path of the chromedriver binary as an argument while initializing the webdriver instance as follows :
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\chromedriver.exe')

You may try to put the chromedriver in the same folder as your program. That worked for me. Then this code in the python document should suffice.
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()