Which is the path to launch chromium from selenium in linux?

Question

I'm trying to use selenium for web scraping, but I'm not able to load a site on the browser, this is my initial code:

import time
import os,sys
reload(sys)  
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')
import re
from selenium import webdriver
from scrapy.http import TextResponse
url = 'https://www.nytimes.com/'
driver_1 = webdriver.Chrome()
driver_1.get(url)

With that code at get an error:

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

Which corresponds to this line:

driver_1 = webdriver.Chrome()

Hence I tried the whereis chromium-browser command and got this paths:

/usr/bin/chromium-browser 
/etc/chromium-browser 
/usr/lib/chromium-browser 
/usr/bin/X11/chromium-browser 
/usr/share/chromium-browser 
/usr/share/man/man1/chromium-browser.1.gz

But for each of them I get errors, for this one:

driver_1 = webdriver.Chrome("/usr/bin/chromium-browser")

I get the error:

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Service /usr/bin/chromium-browser unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 0

I'm using python 2.7X

EDIT:

I have found the answer at the correct path here:

driver = webdriver.Chrome("/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromedriver")

For that to work it is required to run this command:

sudo apt-get install chromium-chromedriver

have you tried some of the solutions listed in: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49323099/webdriverexception-message-service-chromedriver-unexpectedly-exited-status-co — wpercy, Mar 12 '19 at 19:36
@wpercy Error code it's different, I think he pathsI'm using are wrong but I dont know the correct one. — Luis Ramon Ramirez Rodriguez, Mar 12 '19 at 19:48
yeah, I know the error code is different, but exit code `0` typically means that it exited without any errors. I think it's worth looking at. — wpercy, Mar 12 '19 at 19:53
@wpercy I found the answer, now I'm getting other version related errors. — Luis Ramon Ramirez Rodriguez, Mar 12 '19 at 20:13

Which is the path to launch chromium from selenium in linux?

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