Why do i get an error while opening a link through selenium?

Question

i am having trouble using selenium to open a chrome link

from selenium import webdriver
url=r"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"
drvier=webdriver.Chrome(url)
driver.get("https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/attendee")) #a zoom link, hidden by me

The error was:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\lavni\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\CHEM.py", line 3, in <module>
    drvier=webdriver.Chrome(url)
  File "C:\Users\lavni\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py", line 73, in __init__
    self.service.start()
  File "C:\Users\lavni\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 98, in start
    self.assert_process_still_running()
  File "C:\Users\lavni\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 109, in assert_process_still_running
    raise WebDriverException(
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Service C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 0

Shouldn't the argument to webdriver.Chrome(...) be the path to chromedriver.exe and not to chrome.exe? See https://chromedriver.chromium.org/getting-started — , Jul 08 '20 at 13:09

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 08 '20 at 13:08

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Your driver is declared without "i" (drver), and after that, you are refering it as driver.

The link opens ok directly on browser?

answered Jul 08 '20 at 13:08

Rodrigo Ferreira

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 08 '20 at 13:12

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The problem is not about the link. You trying to open the normal chrome with selenium, you need a ChromeDriver which can be controlled with selenium. You can download the ChromeDriver from here.

Make sure that the ChromeDriver and installed Chrome versions match.

answered Jul 08 '20 at 13:12

M. Burak DÖNMEZ

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upon running through the package,it says that chromedriver has started successfully.yet it still doesnt work – Lavnish Chaudhary Jul 08 '20 at 13:40
Can you post the traceback if there is an error with the ChromeDriver too, if there is no error can you explain exactly what is happening? – M. Burak DÖNMEZ Jul 08 '20 at 13:52
okay,nevermind, i realised that i copied the wrong path. – Lavnish Chaudhary Jul 08 '20 at 14:26

Why do i get an error while opening a link through selenium?

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