selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH

Question

I am trying to automate my web application using the python and selenium, I am facing the below issue.

Environment - Mac/Python/Selenium IDE - PyCharm

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

Please help me resolve this issue.

Possible duplicate of [Error message: "'chromedriver' executable needs to be available in the path"](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29858752/error-message-chromedriver-executable-needs-to-be-available-in-the-path) — Saurabh Gaur, Sep 06 '17 at 12:28
Please read why [a screenshot of code is a bad idea](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/303812/discourage-screenshots-of-code-and-or-errors). Paste the code and properly format it instead. — JeffC, Sep 06 '17 at 13:05

score 6 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 13 '19 at 22:15

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Yes. because you haven't pass the Chrome binary which required by Selenium to drive your Chrome browser.

You need to download binary as per your OS from below URL :-

https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=2.32/

Use below code :-

import os
from selenium import webdriver

chromedriver = "/Users/adam/Downloads/chromedriver"
os.environ["webdriver.chrome.driver"] = chromedriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chromedriver)
driver.get("http://stackoverflow.com")

Change the path of chromedriver in above code

OR

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities
cap = DesiredCapabilities.CHROME
cap = {'binary_location': /Users/adam/Downloads/chromedriver"}
driver = webdriver.Chrome(desired_capabilities=cap, executable_path="/Users/adam/Downloads/chromedriver")
driver.get('http://google.com/')

OR

Alternatively you can use a direct path to the chromedriver like this:

 driver = webdriver.Chrome('/path/to/chromedriver')

Source:

Running Selenium WebDriver python bindings in chrome

edited Aug 13 '19 at 22:15

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answered Sep 06 '17 at 12:15

Shubham Jain

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Shubham , I am using the MAC environment. – Bhupendra Singh Rautela Sep 06 '17 at 12:39
If you bothered to scroll down in the provided link, you would have noticed this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/8946843/8085234 – BoboDarph Sep 06 '17 at 12:42
Download this :- https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.32/chromedriver_mac64.zip – Shubham Jain Sep 06 '17 at 12:43
Add another code in answer .. refer :- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45500606/set-chrome-browser-binary-to-chrome-webdriver-in-python – Shubham Jain Sep 06 '17 at 12:47

undetected Selenium · Answer 2 · 2017-09-06T12:45:47.127

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You need to download the chromedriver binary from ChromeDriver Download page and place it anywhere within your system. While you initiate the WebDriver instance you need to mention the absolute path of the ChromeDriver binary.

On my Windows 8 system the following code block works perfect:

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\chromedriver.exe')
driver.get('https://www.google.co.in')
print("Page Title is : %s" %driver.title)

edited Sep 06 '17 at 12:45

answered Sep 06 '17 at 12:26

undetected Selenium

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@ShubhamJain It's clearly mentioned that the code block is based on `Windows 8` system. – undetected Selenium Sep 06 '17 at 12:47
Can any one help me regarding the mac environment. – Bhupendra Singh Rautela Sep 06 '17 at 13:09
@HillHacker Did you download the Mac platform dependent chromedriver binary version 2.32? Can you let me know the location where you have stored it? – undetected Selenium Sep 06 '17 at 13:26

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 06 '17 at 13:31

At firsts you need to download chrome driver from https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloads then unarchive it. then add this file to params of enviroments. And then write driver = webdriver.Chrome('C:\YourPathofChromeDriver\chromedriver.exe')

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