problems in making python selenium and chromedriver work on mac

[Gabriele Brambilla]

Hi all,

I installed Selenium on a mac through pip (python). 

Then, I downloaded chromedriver and placed it in a folder and added it to $PATH

gbrambil% echo $PATH

/Users/gbrambil/Desktop/booking_bot/chrome-driver:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin

following:
https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/installation.html

I'm trying to run this simple code (bot.py):

import os
from selenium import webdriver
browser = webdriver.Chrome()

browser.get('http://seleniumhq.org/')

However, when I try to run it, I still get:

gbrambil% python bot.py

Traceback (most recent call last):

 File "bot.py", line 5, in <module>

 browser = webdriver.Chrome()

 File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 68, in __init__

 self.service.start()

 File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/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: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home

Do you have any idea of what is going wrong?

Thanks

GB

[Abhijit Mone]

You need to provide the path

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[Gabriele Brambilla]

Hi Abhijit,

I tried to provide the path:

I unzipped the file for mac downloaded from here

https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=2.41/

I copied the executable it in this folder

/Users/gbrambil/Desktop/booking_bot/chrome-driver

That I included in PATH (see previous email)!!!

I don't get why it does not work...

GB

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[Abhijit Mone]

You need to give the path of the chrome driver

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[Gabriele Brambilla]

Hi Abhijit,

This is the path of the driver:

gbrambil% ls -l Desktop/booking_bot/chrome-driver/
total 23896
-rwxr-xr-x  1 gbrambil  staff  12234724 Jul 27 11:17 chromedriver

This is my PATH variable

gbrambil% echo $PATH
/Users/gbrambil/Desktop/booking_bot/chrome-driver:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin

I am already giving the path of the driver to the PATH variable.
If you mean something different, please explain.

Thanks,

GB

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[Abhijit Mone]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFVXaC41Xac, try this tutorial , i hope it helps

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[Gabriele Brambilla]

Thanks Abhijit,

it works. I don't understand why it doesn't work the other way around but it's ok!

GB

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[Abhijit Mone]

Thats was i was trying to explain :)

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