Selenium Robot framework - webdriverexception : geckodriver executable needs to be in path

Question

could anyone help please, I have this code:

*** Settings ***
Library Selenium2Library

*** Variables ***
${BROWSER}  ff
${WEBSITE}  http://www.google.com

*** Test Cases ***

Browser test
    [Documentation] Google site.
    [Tags]  Tag.
    Open Browser    ${WEBSITE}  ${BROWSER}
    Close Browser

I think code is correct, but i get this error: webdriverexception message 'geckodriver' executable needs to be in path

I have:

Win32
FF 47

I don't know, how to install webdriver? How to put it to the PATH?

Here is no win32 version: https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases

I have no idea what's going on here, nowhere any guide. - I found only this, but don't understand, how to install that? How set the path? A what should I do with that code?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 07 '16 at 00:30

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I don't know, how to install webdriver? How to put it to the PATH?

Actually now Selenium is supporting executable geckodriver.exe to launch Mozilla Firefox >= v47 just like other drivers.

To work around you need to download executable geckodriver.exe v0.8.0 for 32bit and extract downloaded zip into your system at any location and set Syetem property with webdriver.gecko.driver to point with download executable geckodriver location as below :-

** Settings ***
Library  OperatingSystem
*** Keywords ****
Set Environment Variable  webdriver.gecko.driver  path/to/geckodriver.exe

answered Oct 07 '16 at 00:30

Saurabh Gaur

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Perfect, it works, thx. I only add - doesn't work with Selenium 3. – MmM ... Oct 08 '16 at 23:45
It seems this problem is often a this answer isnt the solution, so please if samobody knows to answer. – MmM ... Jan 24 '18 at 21:39

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 28 '20 at 23:31

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when you use Python. the best shortcut you can do is, put you 'geckodriver.exe' file in pythons script folder. and set the Script folder path in you system path. this will resolve your problem.

answered Apr 28 '20 at 23:31

Almeida tester

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 28 '21 at 17:44

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Use this tool https://github.com/rasjani/webdrivermanager

Just install it in your virtualenv with

pip install webdrivermanager

and then use next command to install latest webdriver version for browser

webdrivermanager chrome

answered Dec 28 '21 at 17:44

Tim Uzlov

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Selenium Robot framework - webdriverexception : geckodriver executable needs to be in path

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