Running Selenium WebDriver python bindings in chrome

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I ran into a problem while working with Selenium  For my project  I have to use Chrome  However  I can t connect to that browser after launching it with Selenium   For some reason  Selenium can t find Chrome by itself  This is what happens when I try to launch Chrome without including a path   Traceback  most recent call last     File    obp pb get csv py   line 73  in  lt module gt      browser   webdriver Chrome     Get local session of chrome   File   usr lib64 python2 7 site-packages selenium webdriver chrome webdriver py   line 46  in   init       self service start     File   usr lib64 python2 7 site-packages selenium webdriver chrome service py   line 58  in start     and read up at http   code google com p selenium wiki ChromeDriver   selenium common exceptions WebDriverException  Message   ChromeDriver executable needs to be available in the path                  Please download from http   code google com p selenium downloads list                and read up at http   code google com p selenium wiki ChromeDriver    To solve this problem  I then included the Chromium path in the code that launches Chrome  However  the interpreter fails to find a socket to connect to   Traceback  most recent call last     File    obp pb get csv py   line 73  in  lt module gt      browser   webdriver Chrome   usr bin chromium     Get local session of chrome   File   usr lib64 python2 7 site-packages selenium webdriver chrome webdriver py   line 46  in   init       self service start     File   usr lib64 python2 7 site-packages selenium webdriver chrome service py   line 64  in start     raise WebDriverException  Can not connect to the ChromeDriver   selenium common exceptions WebDriverException  Message   Can not connect to the ChromeDriver    I also tried solving the problem by launching chrome with   chromium --remote-shell-port 9222  However  this did not work either   PS  Here s some information about my system   www-client  chromium 15 0 874 121   dev-lang    python 2 7 2-r3 Selenium 2 11 1   OS          GNU Linux Gentoo Kernel 3 1 0-gentoo-r1

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For Linux  Check you have installed latest version of chrome brwoser- gt  chromium-browser -version  If not  install latest version of chrome sudo apt-get install chromium-browser  get appropriate version of chrome driver from here  Unzip the chromedriver zip  Move the file to  usr bin directory sudo mv chromedriver  usr bin  Goto  usr bin directory cd  usr bin  Now  you would need to run something like sudo chmod a x chromedriver to mark it executable   finally you can execute the code  from selenium import webdriver  driver   webdriver Chrome   driver get  quot http   www google com quot   print driver page source encode  utf-8   driver quit

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You need to make sure the standalone ChromeDriver binary  which is different than the Chrome browser binary  is either in your path or available in the webdriver chrome driver environment variable   see http   code google com p selenium wiki ChromeDriver for full information on how wire things up   Edit   Right  seems to be a bug in the Python bindings wrt reading the chromedriver binary from the path or the environment variable  Seems if chromedriver is not in your path you have to pass it in as an argument to the constructor   import os from selenium import webdriver  chromedriver     Users adam Downloads chromedriver  os environ  webdriver chrome driver     chromedriver driver   webdriver Chrome chromedriver  driver get  http   stackoverflow com   driver quit

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For Windows  IDE   If your path doesn t work  you can try to add the chromedriver exe to your project  like in this project structure     Then you should load the chromedriver exe in your main file  As for me  I loaded the driver exe in driver py   def get chrome driver    return webdriver Chrome      content  engine  chromedriver exe                               chrome options  --no-startup-window        means driver py s upper directory    means the directory where the driver py is located  Hope this will be helpful

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Mac OSX only  An easier way to get going  assuming you already have homebrew installed  which you should  if not  go do that first and let homebrew make your life better  is to just run the following command   brew install chromedriver   That should put the chromedriver in your path and you should be all set

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There are 2 ways to run Selenium python tests in Google Chrome  I m considering Windows  Windows 10 in my case    Prerequisite  Download the latest Chrome Driver from  https   sites google com a chromium org chromedriver downloads  Way 1   i  Extract the downloaded zip file in a directory location of your choice ii  Set the executable path in your code as below   self driver   webdriver Chrome executable path  D  Selenium RiponAlWasim Drivers chromedriver win32 chromedriver exe     Way 2   i  Simply paste the chromedriver exe under  Python Scripts   In my case the folder was  C  Python36 Scripts  ii  Now write the simple code as below   self driver   webdriver Chrome

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For windows  please have the chromedriver exe placed under  lt Install Dir gt  Python27 Scripts

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For windows  Download ChromeDriver from this direct link OR get the latest version from this page   Paste the chromedriver exe file in your C  Python27 Scripts folder   This should work now   from selenium import webdriver driver   webdriver Chrome

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