Fix 'geckodriver' executable needs to be in PATH; geckodriver path is specified

Asked Aug 25 '19 at 04:55

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I'm trying to use selenium to do some simple webscraping, and I need to use selenium to deal with the dynamic content.

I have tried downloading geckodriver several times, and have put geckodriver into the same directory and specified the path when creating the driver in the code.

driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path = '/usr/local/Cellar/geckodrivers/0.24.0/bin/geckodriver'

I expected this to work, but still got this error:

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

Any idea what else I can try? Thank you!

asked Aug 25 '19 at 04:55

Jack Scheffel

Does your geckodriver has executable permission ? – PySaad Aug 25 '19 at 05:11
Does it work if you specify absolute path? – Guy Aug 25 '19 at 05:16
For adding path: ```export PATH=$PATH:/path_to_geckodriver``` – PySaad Aug 25 '19 at 05:18
Just use the WebDriverManager and you should have no problem: https://github.com/bonigarcia/webdrivermanager – AndiCover Aug 25 '19 at 05:51
place it somewhere on your system PATH (hint: it is an environment variable in your shell) – Corey Goldberg Aug 26 '19 at 02:02

Fix 'geckodriver' executable needs to be in PATH; geckodriver path is specified

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