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Trying to run the following script to go to this website and click a link to export a csv. 

from selenium import webdriver
driver=webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("https://www.draftkings.com/contest/gamecenter/46877680")
elem1 = driver.find_element_by_link_text("Export Lineups to CSV")
elem1.click()

I get the following error and can't find a geckodriver. I pip installed selenium. I got this from an older video and I currently run Python 3.6 so that is probably part of the problem as well. Where am I going wrong?

Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Program Files\Python36\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 74, in start stdout=self.log_file, stderr=self.log_file) File "C:\Program Files\Python36\lib\subprocess.py", line 707, in init restore_signals, start_new_session) File "C:\Program Files\Python36\lib\subprocess.py", line 992, in _execute_child startupinfo) FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:/Users/mike/Desktop/Lineup1.py", line 2, in driver=webdriver.Firefox() File "C:\Program Files\Python36\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\webdriver.py", line 144, in init self.service.start() File "C:\Program Files\Python36\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 81, in start os.path.basename(self.path), self.start_error_message) selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'geckodriver' executable needs to be in PATH.

Green Falcon
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Download the geckodriver and Drag and Drop the geckodriver.exe file to the project root folder. In this way, there is no need of adding the geckodriver path in your code and again try to execute the code. No error will come

AutomationEngineer
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Actually, The Selenium client bindings try to locate the geckodriver executable from the system PATH. You will need to add the directory containing the executable to the system path. On Unix systems you can do the following to append it to your system’s search path if you’re using a bash-compatible shell:

export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/directory/of/executable/downloaded/in/previous/step

On Windows, you will need to update the Path system variable to add the full directory path to the executable geckodriver manually or command line(don't forget to restart your system after adding executable geckodriver into system PATH to take effect). The principle is the same as on Unix.

and then try using the following

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.firefox_binary import FirefoxBinary

binary = FirefoxBinary('path/to/installed firefox binary')
browser = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_binary=binary)

References,

https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/QA/Marionette/WebDriver

Neel Shah
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  • I stumbled across this earlier Neel, thank you for the response. I am not sure how to update the Path system variable to add the full directory path to the executable geckodriver manually or command line(don't forget to restart your system after adding executable geckodriver into system PATH to take effect). – Michael T Johnson Oct 19 '17 at 04:49
  • I went to https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases and downloaded the gecko.exe. What does it mean by being in the file path? i currently just have the lineup.py script on my desktop – Michael T Johnson Oct 19 '17 at 04:53
  • ok, i got it. It requires i log in every time though. which is going to be another headache but atleast it opens. The other thing is i don't think its clicking the link i have requested. – Michael T Johnson Oct 19 '17 at 05:08