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Launching the browser using SPLINTER throws error

Hi I have tried to run the code which is used to open a browser, enter URL and close the browser(https://splinter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) using SPLINTER in python. The sample code in the above URL is what I tried.
I got the following errors:
C:\Users\irgfff\Desktop>python browse.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\irgfff\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-
packa
ges\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 74, in start
stdout=self.log_file, stderr=self.log_file)
File "C:\Users\irgfff\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-
32\lib\subprocess
.py", line 707, in __init__
restore_signals, start_new_session)
File "C:\Users\irgfff\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 "browse.py", line 4, in <module>
with Browser() as browser:
File "C:\Users\irgfff\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-
packa
ges\splinter\browser.py", line 63, in Browser
return driver(*args, **kwargs)
File "C:\Users\irgfff\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-
packa
ges\splinter\driver\webdriver\firefox.py", line 48, in __init__
timeout=timeout)
File "C:\Users\irgfff\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-
packa
ges\selenium\webdriver\firefox\webdriver.py", line 142, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "C:\Users\irgfff\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-
packa
ges\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 81, in start
os.path.basename(self.path), self.start_error_message)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'geckodriver'
executable needs to be in PATH.
Could you let me know what I need to configure to avoid these errors ?
I am using Python 3.6.1
Firefox Version - 52
SPLINTER version 0.7.5

I have solved this problem. You must add PATH the location of geckodriver and webdriver.
You can download geckodriver(https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases) here.
good luck

running firefox selenium webdriver from python on mac OS fails to start

when trying to launch firefox from Pycharm IDE or from Terminal with the next simple script:
from selenium import webdriver
a = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_binary='/usr/local/bin/geckodriver')
no browser session is opened and i'm getting this issue:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/avihaiezaguy/Desktop/a.py", line 2, in <module>
a = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_binary='/usr/local/bin/geckodriver')
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 150, in __init__
keep_alive=True)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 92, in __init__
self.start_session(desired_capabilities, browser_profile)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 179, in start_session
response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, capabilities)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 236, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 104, in check_response
status = value["status"]
KeyError: 'status'
when webdriver is called without binary from Terminal, the browser opens and i get:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/avihaiezaguy/Desktop/a.py", line 2, in <module>
a = webdriver.Firefox()
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 150, in __init__
keep_alive=True)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 92, in __init__
self.start_session(desired_capabilities, browser_profile)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 180, in start_session
self.session_id = response['sessionId']
KeyError: 'sessionId'
on the other hand Chrome works fine.
can anyone help solving this issue?

after looking at: https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases
upgraded selenium from 3.0.2 to 3.3.1 with
pip install -U selenium
now it's working!

Infinite loop that fills tmp folder in Ubuntu with Selenium

Just created a fresh install of Ubuntu. Installed python and selenium, went to run this code:
#!/usr/bin/env python
from selenium import webdriver
browser = webdriver.Firefox('/usr/bin/')
browser.get('http://www.ubuntu.com/')
browser.close()
browser.quit()
when i run it, it just hangs in the terminal and then when I press Control-C it says:
^CTraceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 5, in <module>
browser = webdriver.Firefox('/usr/bin/')
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 127, in __init__
firefox_profile = FirefoxProfile(firefox_profile)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/firefox_profile.py", line 78, in __init__
ignore=shutil.ignore_patterns("parent.lock", "lock", ".parentlock"))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 189, in copytree
copytree(srcname, dstname, symlinks, ignore)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 189, in copytree
copytree(srcname, dstname, symlinks, ignore)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 189, in copytree
copytree(srcname, dstname, symlinks, ignore)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 192, in copytree
copy2(srcname, dstname)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 130, in copy2
copyfile(src, dst)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 84, in copyfile
copyfileobj(fsrc, fdst)
KeyboardInterrupt
If I don't kill the program and it fills my tmp folder for some reason.
I have tried installing selenium three different times across different VMs, using venv, moving selenium all of the place. I am LOST.
Any help is greatly appreciated!!
EDIT: I removed the '/usr/bin/' per #L3viathan and ran it. My new error is:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 5, in <module>
browser = webdriver.Firefox()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 135, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 64, in start
stdout=self.log_file, stderr=self.log_file)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 711, in __init__
errread, errwrite)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1343, in _execute_child
raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 8] Exec format error
Couldn't make anything work anymore so I started up another fresh Ubuntu VM and have only done the following commands.
$ sudo apt-get install python-pip
$ sudo pip install selenium
And then I ran my program and got the geckodriver error. So I downloaded the geckodriver. and moved it to /usr/bin/
$ sudo cp geckodriver /usr/bin/
ran program and get EXACT same error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 5, in <module>
browser = webdriver.Firefox()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 135, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 64, in start
stdout=self.log_file, stderr=self.log_file)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 711, in __init__
errread, errwrite)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1343, in _execute_child
raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 8] Exec format error

Using Selenium on Raspberry Pi with Chromium

So I'm trying to run Selenium on my raspberry pi using Chromium and for some reason I can't get my python file to compile. I keep getting the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 4, in <module>
driver = webdriver.Chrome(os.path.expanduser('/usr/bin/chromedriver.exe'))
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium-2.46.0-py2.7.egg/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 62, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium-2.46.0-py2.7.egg/selenium/webdriver/chrome/service.py", line 75, in start
os.path.basename(self.path), docs_msg)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver.exe' executable needs to be in PATH. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home
Here is the python code I'm trying to run:
from selenium import webdriver
import os
driver = webdriver.Chrome(os.path.expanduser('/usr/bin/chromedriver'))
driver.get("http://www.google.com")
driver.quit()
Any ideas?
Update
After removing the '.exe' at the end of chromedriver, it now produces the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 4, in <module>
driver = webdriver.Chrome(os.path.expanduser('/usr/bin/chromedriver'))
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium-2.46.0-py2.7.egg/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 62, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium-2.46.0-py2.7.egg/selenium/webdriver/chrome/service.py", line 68, in start
self.service_args, env=env, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 679, in __init__
errread, errwrite)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1259, in _execute_child
raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 8] Exec format error

Ubuntu has builds of chromium-chromedriver as .deb files for armhf.
On launchpad, therefore, you can find chromium-chromedriver armhf builds available for download. Just download the latest version, and since they have no dependencies, you can install by running dpkg -i chromium-chromedriver_58.0.3029.96-0ubuntu0.14.04.1174_armhf.deb. Then chromedriver will be available in /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromedriver.

At the moment Chrome Driver dont support ARM processors architecture anymore.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=95322

Error in .vdisplay.start() - xvfbwrapper is not working

installed xvfbwrapper python module.provided display start in python selenium test in MAC
from xvfbwrapper import Xvfb
class San(unittest.TestCase):
def setUp(self):
#display = Display(visible=0, size=(1480, 2000))
#display.start()
self.vdisplay = Xvfb(width=1480, height=2000)
self.vdisplay.start()
self.driver = webdriver.Chrome()
While running the test case , error occur
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "san98.py", line 34, in setUp
self.vdisplay.start()
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/xvfbwrapper.py", line 53, in start
stderr=open(os.devnull),
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 711, in __init__
errread, errwrite)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1308, in _execute_child
raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
How to fix this issue

try this
sudo apt-get install xvfb