The error does gives us some hint on whats wrong happening as follows :
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\Users\\Mike\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python36-32\\lib\\site-packages\\selenium\\webdriver\\remote\\getAttribute.js'
Which essentially means getAttribute.js wasn't found in it's intended location.
getAttribute.js
getAttribute.js file internally works with the errors and other critical JavaScript functions as below :
- element not selectable
- element not visible
- invalid cookie domain
- invalid element coordinates
- invalid element state
- invalid selector
- invalid selector
- parseInt()
- push()
- indexOf()
- toUpperCase()
- execScript()
- etc
A typical getAttribute.js file looks like :
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(function(){var a=Error;function b(){}b.prototype=a.prototype;h.b=a.prototype;h.prototype=new b;h.prototype.constructor=h;h.a=function(b,c,g){for(var e=Array(arguments.length-2),k=2;k<arguments.length;k++)e[k-2]=arguments[k];return a.prototype[c].apply(b,e)}})();var m="unknown error",l={15:"element not selectable",11:"element not visible"};l[31]=m;l[30]=m;l[24]="invalid cookie domain";l[29]="invalid element coordinates";l[12]="invalid element state";l[32]="invalid selector";l[51]="invalid selector";
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Error Reason :
Incase the getAttribute.js file doesn't gets downloaded properly Selenium and webdriver modules may not work properly. The issue can arise if the Selenium Client encounters any error during its transmission or storage.
Selenium Team is currently working on the issue SeleniumHQ/selenium/5378 to generate the binary checksum of the Downloaded Selenium Client which will help you to avoid encountering errors which may have been introduced during its transmission or storage.
Solution
Till then a solution will be to :
Check if Python is properly installed
C:\Users\username>python
Python 3.9.0 (v3.9.0:69c0db5, Jan 31 2018, 17:54:52) [MSC v.1900 32 bit (Intel)]
on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>
Ensure pip is working properly
C:\Users\username>pip
Usage:
pip <command> [options]
Commands:
install Install packages.
download Download packages.
uninstall Uninstall packages.
freeze Output installed packages in requirements format.
list List installed packages.
show Show information about installed packages.
check Verify installed packages have compatible dependencies.
search Search PyPI for packages.
wheel Build wheels from your requirements.
hash Compute hashes of package archives.
completion A helper command used for command completion.
help Show help for commands.
General Options:
-h, --help Show help.
--isolated Run pip in an isolated mode, ignoring environment variables and user configuration.
-v, --verbose Give more output. Option is additive, and can be used up to 3 times.
-V, --version Show version and exit.
-q, --quiet Give less output. Option is additive, and can be used up to 3 times (corresponding to WARNING, ERROR, and CRITICAL logging levels).
--log <path> Path to a verbose appending log.
--proxy <proxy> Specify a proxy in the form [user:passwd@]proxy.server:port.
--retries <retries> Maximum number of retries each connection should attempt (default 5 times).
--timeout <sec> Set the socket timeout (default 15 seconds).
--exists-action <action> Default action when a path already exists: (s)witch, (i)gnore, (w)ipe, (b)ackup, (a)bort.
--trusted-host <hostname> Mark this host as trusted, even though it does not have valid or any HTTPS.
--cert <path> Path to alternate CA bundle.
--client-cert <path> Path to SSL client certificate, a single file containing the private key and the certificate in PEM format.
--cache-dir <dir> Store the cache data in <dir>.
--no-cache-dir Disable the cache.
--disable-pip-version-check
Don't periodically check PyPI to determine
whether a new version of pip is available for
download. Implied with --no-index.
Uninstall Selenium completely through pip
C:\Users\username>pip uninstall selenium
Uninstalling selenium-3.4.2:
c:\python\lib\site-packages\selenium-3.4.2.dist-info\description.rst
c:\python\lib\site-packages\selenium-3.4.2.dist-info\installer
c:\python\lib\site-packages\selenium-3.4.2.dist-info\metadata
c:\python\lib\site-packages\selenium-3.4.2.dist-info\metadata.json
c:\python\lib\site-packages\selenium-3.4.2.dist-info\record
c:\python\lib\site-packages\selenium-3.4.2.dist-info\top_level.txt
c:\python\lib\site-packages\selenium-3.4.2.dist-info\wheel
c:\python\lib\site-packages\selenium\__init__.py
c:\python\lib\site-packages\selenium\__pycache__\__init__.cpython-36.pyc
c:\python\lib\site-packages\selenium\common\__init__.py
.....
.....
.....
c:\python\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\support\events.py
c:\python\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\support\expected_conditions.py
c:\python\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\support\select.py
c:\python\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\support\ui.py
c:\python\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\support\wait.py
c:\python\selenium\webdriver\firefox\amd64\x_ignore_nofocus.so
c:\python\selenium\webdriver\firefox\x86\x_ignore_nofocus.so
c:\python\selenium\webdriver\remote\getattribute.js
c:\python\selenium\webdriver\remote\isdisplayed.js
Proceed (y/n)? y
Successfully uninstalled selenium-3.4.2
Install the latest Selenium through pip
C:\Users\username>pip install -U selenium
Collecting selenium
Downloading selenium-3.9.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (931kB)
100% |¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦| 942kB 322kB/s
Installing collected packages: selenium
Successfully installed selenium-3.9.0
Confirm that Selenium is installed
C:\Users\AtechM_03>pip freeze
selenium==3.9.0
Open an IDE (e.g Eclipse, PyCharm) and write a simple program as follows :
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path="C:\\path\\to\\geckodriver.exe")
driver.get('https://stackoverflow.com')
