Selenium Path Doesn't make sense

Ran a quick Script

from selenium import webdriver

path = r"C:/Users/andre/Desktop/chromedriver.exe"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(path)

driver.get('https://www.google.ca')


Output is

andrefu@LAPTOP-1011FFMG:/mnt/c/Users/andre/Desktop/Pardee Lab$ python3 Scrape_RNAfold.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/andrefu/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 76, in start
stdin=PIPE)
File "/home/andrefu/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 709, in __init__
restore_signals, start_new_session)
File "/home/andrefu/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 1344, in _execute_child
raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:/Users/andre/Desktop/chromedriver.exe': 'C:/Users/andre/Desktop/chromedriver.exe'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "Scrape_RNAfold.py", line 7, in <module>
driver = webdriver.Chrome(path)
File "/home/andrefu/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 68, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "/home/andrefu/anaconda3/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: 'chromedriver.exe' executable needs to be in PATH. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home


My chromedriver.exe is in my Desktop So, I really don't know why its saying chromedriver isn't working.

I've tried different paths such as

path = 'C:UsersandreDesktopchromedriver.exe'
path = 'C:UsersandreDesktop'
path = 'C:/Users/andre/Desktop/chromedriver.exe'
path = 'C:/Users/andre/Desktop'


Even putting my chromedriver in the same folder as my code Scrape_RNAfold.py Running it with the full path name and just the driver = webdriver.Chrome().

Scrape_RNAfold.py

driver = webdriver.Chrome()

I also tried it with the raw 'r' unicode before the string and with out it & using both single and double quotes. Could someone please help me identify where i'm going wrong?

driver = webdriver.Chrome()

python3.exe

pip freeze | grep splinter

1 Answer
1

There seems to be some mismatch between the path seperator (i.e. /) and the quotes (i.e. "")

/

""

You need to download the latest ChromeDriver from ChromeDriver - WebDriver for Chrome and store it anywhere within your system. As you are on Windows OS, unzip the binary and perform the following:

\

" "

" "

r

So your code block will be:

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:UsersandreDesktopchromedriver.exe')
driver.get('https://www.google.ca')


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