using selenium with webdriver

Question

error while using Selenium webdriver on python

driver = webdriver.Chrome(path)
driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())

same error is getting for both-'str' object has no attribute 'capabilities'

can anyone resolve it?

Answer 1

You may try using the Service() class along with ChromeDriverManager().install():

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager

driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service(ChromeDriverManager().install()))

and you'll need to install

pip install selenium
pip install webdriver-manager

reference:

• Purpose of webdriver manager
• https://pypi.org/project/webdriver-manager/

Answer 2

If you are using selenium version 4.6.0 or higher, you do not really need WebDriverManager as selenium has an in-built tool known as SeleniumManager which does what WDM used to do.

Code can be as simple as:

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome()

References: https://stackoverflow.com/a/76463081/7598774