PhantomJS with Selenium: Message: 'phantomjs' executable needs to be in PATH

Question

I having trouble installing PhantomJS to my project Following the suggestions from the similar question from so I defined the $PATH variable with executable path

cd Users/zkid18/project/venv/venv_name/lib/python3.6/site-packages/phantomjs-2.1.1/bin 
export PATH=$PWD

Then I try to create a driver with a virtual browser

import from selenium import webdriver
browser = webdriver.PhantomJS()

On this step I got an error

No such file or directory: 'phantomjs': 'phantomjs'

What I am missing?

Check whether you've downloaded 32-bit PhantomJS version for 32-bit OS or 64-bit version for 64-bit OS... Also it's better to append directory to PATH (`export PATH=$PATH:$PWD`) instead of re-define PATH... — Andersson, Jan 10 '19 at 16:50
Possible duplicate of [PhantomJS with Selenium error: Message: 'phantomjs' executable needs to be in PATH](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37903536/phantomjs-with-selenium-error-message-phantomjs-executable-needs-to-be-in-pa) — stovfl, Jan 10 '19 at 18:05
@Andersson I use mac os x, so I guess only one version availbale — Daniel Chepenko, Jan 11 '19 at 00:08
Check this answer. This will work fine https://stackoverflow.com/a/64437609/12017533 — Jiya, Oct 20 '20 at 03:27

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 10 '19 at 16:58

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You need to give the path:

browser = webdriver.PhantomJS(executable_path='Complete path/to/phantomjs')

To find it use export PATH=${PATH:+$PATH:} in the command line as @Anderson commented.

answered Jan 10 '19 at 16:58

Moshe Slavin

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If this is a dup, please post it as a dup (it looks like you already did) and then don't answer because it causes confusion to new (and potentially other) users. – JeffC Jan 10 '19 at 17:01
@JeffC I did but it looks like it doesn't answer OP's question... take a look at the flag I raised – Moshe Slavin Jan 10 '19 at 17:02
@MosheSlavin I'm a bit confused about using defining PATH properly. Why should I append path instead of redefining it? After `export PATH=$PATH:$PWD` I run `$PATH` in the command line bash: `/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/zkid18/project/venv/venv_name/lib/python3.6/site-packages/phantomjs-2.1.1/bin: No such file or directory` Seems I did something wrong – Daniel Chepenko Jan 11 '19 at 00:17

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 11 '19 at 08:08

This error message...

No such file or directory: 'phantomjs': 'phantomjs'

...implies that the program was unable to locate the phantomjs binary.

As you are on MAC OS X you need to download phantomjs-2.1.1-macosx.zip from Download PhantomJS page and extract (unzip) the content within your system. Next you can mention the absolute path of phantomjs binary passing the argument executable_path as follows:

MAC OS X example:

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.PhantomJS(executable_path='/path/to/phantomjs-2.1.1-xxx/bin/phantomjs')
driver.get('https://www.google.com/')
print(driver.title)
driver.quit()

Windows OS example:

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.PhantomJS(executable_path=r'C:\\Utility\\phantomjs-2.1.1-windows\\bin\\phantomjs.exe')
driver.get('https://www.google.com/')
print(driver.title)
driver.quit()

PhantomJS with Selenium: Message: 'phantomjs' executable needs to be in PATH

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