My selenium script (in Python) for chrome runs but does nothing

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vscode says it run but it does nothing. My pip is up to date and i installed selenium with the command prompt. i have a valid path (i think) for chromedriver. Here's my code:

from selenium import webdriver
chromedriver = "C:Users/P-Lou/Downloads/chromedriver.exe"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chromedriver)
driver.get("http:google.com")

The result is this:

[Running] python -u "w:\Python\Seletest\app.py"

[Done] exited with code=0 in 0.067 seconds

What do you mean by "it does nothing"? Just from the code you posted, it is not supposed to do anything. Also, the url does not look correct. Instead, `http://google.com` should be it, I think. — Jonathan Scholbach, Dec 01 '20 at 13:54
it is supposed to open google but it doesnt. I changed the adress and still no responce. — Pierre, Dec 01 '20 at 13:56
Not a Selenium expert but it looks like all your code is telling it to do is go onto the Google homepage. You may be running a headless browser in which case there wont be a visible window that pops up on your screen. Try telling it to get elements from the page and examine what it finds. — Jacob Myer, Dec 01 '20 at 13:58
its a good idea but it did nothing. i tried to run it in mcrosoft visual studio instead and mow my error message is: Message: 'chromedriver.exe' executable needs to be in PATH. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home — Pierre, Dec 01 '20 at 14:03
Try using the following: chromedriver = r"C:Users/P-Lou/Downloads/chromedriver.exe" — Arundeep Chohan, Dec 01 '20 at 17:34

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 01 '20 at 14:06

I tried this code by only changing the browser to firefox and removing the chromedriver = part and it worked fine, you might be running the browser in headless mode, thats why nothing pops up. You can change that using The Chromedriver.options(set_headless="false") (not sure if that is the right code, you can check yourself here)

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 01 '20 at 15:33

Presuming the ChromeDriver binary location being C:\Users\P-Lou\Downloads on your windows system you can use the following solution:

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\Users\P-Lou\Downloads\chromedriver.exe')
driver.get("http:google.com")

My selenium script (in Python) for chrome runs but does nothing

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