Running selenium issue

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I'm new to selenium just started learning it using freecodecamp and started using selenium downloaded selenium using the following command in python

pip install selenium

And I manually installed chrome web driver. Written the code as:

import os
from selenium import webdriver

os.environ["PATH"] +=r"C:/seleniumDrivers" #where the chrome driver is installed
driver = webdriver.Chrome()

The following error occured when I run this:

line 81, in start
raise WebDriverException(
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be 
in 
PATH. Please see https://chromedriver.chromium.org/home

But if I modified code a bit:

  import os
from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome("C:/seleniumDrivers/chromedriver.exe)

A pop website appeared and closes immediately. Can anyone please suggest what should I do.

data_sc · Accepted Answer · 2022-06-23 16:03:04Z

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In the newer selenium, including the webdriver is depreciated. Use ChromeDriverManager instead of referencing the path to chromedriver.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())

answered Jun 23, 2022 at 16:03

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Arundeep Chohan Over a year ago

Might want to include the command for chromedriver the pip.

Khanh Luong · Accepted Answer · 2022-06-23 15:34:41Z

For the first issue

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH. Please see https://chromedriver.chromium.org/home

You have to point the PATH to the correct directory, which containing the chromedriver.exe executable on the first level (i.e. you can see the executable when you open the path, it usually named bin)

For the second issue

A pop website appeared and closes immediately. Can anyone please suggest what should I do.

It is because the code has finished (no further code to execute), so the program exits and closes the browser. You can try adding input() after the last line to see if the browser remains open (until you press enter on the command line).

James · Accepted Answer · 2022-07-01 12:32:57Z

You don't need to use the os module unless this is specific to your script, you can save the path as a variable. I'm using Selenium currently and this should work for you - you need to specify the "Service" now in the webdriver. Do the 2 pip installs first in terminal.

# pip install selenium #
# pip install webdriver-manager #

from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium import webdriver

service = Service("C:/seleniumDrivers/chromedriver.exe")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service)

driver.get(URL)

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