Selenium Chromedriver executable needs to be in path ( IT IS)

Question

Installed Selenium and the latest stable Chromedriver built.

As suggested I put it into the environment variable path:

My code looks like this :

options = Options()
options.add_argument('--headless')
options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
options.add_argument('start-maximized')
options.add_argument('disable-infobars')
options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")

prefs = {"profile.managed_default_content_settings.images": 2}
options.add_experimental_option("prefs", prefs)

driver = webdriver.Chrome('./driver/chromedriver', options=options)

timeout = 3

The error that I am getting is :

WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home

I even tried the following in the command line :

chromedriver --whitelisted-ips=""

Can someone please provide some help how I can resolve this.

The whole output error is this :

FileNotFoundError Traceback (most recent call last) ~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py in start(self) 75 stderr=self.log_file, ---> 76 stdin=PIPE) 77 except TypeError:

~\Anaconda3\lib\subprocess.py in init(self, args, bufsize, executable, stdin, stdout, stderr, preexec_fn, close_fds, shell, cwd, env, universal_newlines, startupinfo, creationflags, restore_signals, start_new_session, pass_fds, encoding, errors, text) 774 errread, errwrite, --> 775 restore_signals, start_new_session) 776 except:

~\Anaconda3\lib\subprocess.py in _execute_child(self, args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds, pass_fds, cwd, env, startupinfo, creationflags, shell, p2cread, p2cwrite, c2pread, c2pwrite, errread, errwrite, unused_restore_signals, unused_start_new_session) 1177 os.fspath(cwd) if cwd is not None else None, -> 1178 startupinfo) 1179 finally:

FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

WebDriverException                        Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-9-3b7827e2d128> in <module>
      2 from selenium import webdriver
      3 
----> 4 driver = webdriver.Chrome('/path/to/chromedriver')  # Optional argument, if not specified will search path.
      5 driver.get('http://www.google.com/');
      6 time.sleep(5) # Let the user actually see something!

~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py in __init__(self, executable_path, port, options, service_args, desired_capabilities, service_log_path, chrome_options, keep_alive)
     71             service_args=service_args,
     72             log_path=service_log_path)
---> 73         self.service.start()
     74 
     75         try:

~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py in start(self)
     81                 raise WebDriverException(
     82                     "'%s' executable needs to be in PATH. %s" % (
---> 83                         os.path.basename(self.path), self.start_error_message)
     84                 )
     85             elif err.errno == errno.EACCES:

Answer 1

The path entry needs to be C:\Users\skpok\Downloads\chromedriver_win32 and not C:\Users\skpok\Downloads\chromedriver_win32\chromedriver.exe.

The PATH environment variable lists folders in which to search for programs. It doesn't list the programs themselves.

(With your current configuration, the full path of the file would have to be C:\Users\skpok\Downloads\chromedriver_win32\chromedriver.exe\chromedriver.exe to be found.)

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Also, it seems you are actually specifying the chrome driver path here:

driver = webdriver.Chrome('./driver/chromedriver', options=options)

The path ./driver/chromedriver conflicts with the path you showed before... Try removing this argument so that it actually looks in the PATH, or specify the correct file path here!