Selenium webdriver exception is thrown for chromedriver.exe

Question

When I tried to run the following command in python/Selenium from selenium

import webdriver

browser=webdriver.Chrome("C:\chromedriver.exe")

the below exception is thrown: selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: failed to write automation extension zip

try with `browser=webdriver.Chrome("C:\\chromedriver.exe")`. Also sometimes file dont work in root driver. Move it to a folder and then try — Tarun Lalwani, Mar 29 '18 at 11:50
Possible duplicate of [Error:cannot get automation extension for chrome with selenium](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42979877/chrome-org-openqa-selenium-webdriverexception-unknown-error-cannot-get-autom) — undetected Selenium, Mar 29 '18 at 12:57

Pitto · Answer 1 · 2018-03-29T12:19:49.023

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Please put your chromedriver.exe in a folder in your desktop.

Then create a test.py in the same folder containing this minimal example:

from selenium import webdriver
browser = webdriver.Chrome()
browser.get('https://www.google.com')

This code was just tested on my Windows PC, works perfectly.

If you do not specify a path for chromedriver.exe Selenium will search for it in the same folder of your script.

I like this behaviour because if I need to move the script to another pc or send it to someone I just have to zip the folder and send it out.

You can clearly choose a different path for your chromedriver.exe file but you have to be sure that your user (or the user that will be running your script) 100% has permission to read and write for the specified path.

C:\ is generally not a good idea, specially in new Windows versions like 10.

The error you have pasted underlines a permission problem for the path C:\

edited Mar 29 '18 at 12:19

answered Mar 29 '18 at 12:13

Pitto

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..IT IS NOT WORKING – Mehedi Mar 29 '18 at 12:21
Which kind of error do you get? Did you try to download a fresh copy of chromedriver.exe? Did you put everything in a folder on your desktop? – Pitto Mar 29 '18 at 13:06
Also your version of chromedriver should match your version of chrome. Please update both. – Pitto Mar 29 '18 at 13:08
If you don't provide at least what error you get and what steps you tried it is really hard to help you – Pitto Mar 30 '18 at 21:50
@pitto...I got the issue by checking eventdriver log. – Mehedi Apr 06 '18 at 11:40
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chromedirve is blocked by antivirus software. After driver is permitted, issue is get solved. – Mehedi Apr 06 '18 at 11:41

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 19 '19 at 03:42

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Antivirus blocked chromedriver.exe from running, disabling antivirus resolved my problem.

answered Feb 19 '19 at 03:42

Gaurav Charan

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