[selenium] Selenium WebDriver.get(url) does not open the URL

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait # available since 2.4.0
import time


# Create a new instance of the Firefox driver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()


# go to the google home page
driver.get("http://www.google.com")

This opens a Firefox window but does not open a url.

1. I have a proxy server(but the address bar does not show the passed url)
2. I have two Firefox profiles.

Can 1 or 2 be an issue? if yes, then how can I resolve it?

Since you mentioned you use a proxy, try setting up the firefox driver with a proxy by following the answer given here proxy selenium python firefox

I had the same problem but with Chrome.

Solved it using the following steps

1. Install Firefox/Chrome webdriver from Google
2. Put the webdriver in Chrome's directory.

Here's the code and it worked fine

from selenium import webdriver

class InstaBot(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self.driver=webdriver.Chrome("C:\Program 
        Files(x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chromedriver.exe")# make sure 
                                                      #it is chrome driver 
        self.driver.get("https://www.wikipedia.com")
        
        
InstaBot()

I was facing exactly the same issue, after browsing for sometime,I came to know that it is basically version compatibility issue between FireFox and selenium. I have got the latest FireFox but my Selenium imported was older which is causing the issue. Issue got resolved after upgrading selenium

pip install -U selenium

OS: windows Python 2.7

A spent a lot of time on this issue and finally found that selenium 2.44 not working with node version 0.12. Use node version 0.10.38.

I have resolved this issue.

If your jar files are older than the latest version and the browser has updated to latest version, then download:

• the latest jar files from the selenium website http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/, and
• the latest geckodriver.exe.

Please have a look at this HowTo: http://www.qaautomation.net/?p=373 Have a close look at section "Instantiating WebDriver"

I think you are missing the following code line:

wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 30);

Put it between

driver = webdriver.Firefox();

and

driver.getUrl("http://www.google.com");

Haven't tested it, because I'm not using Selenium at the moment. I'm familiar with Selenium 1.x.

It is a defect of Selenium.
I have the same problem in Ubuntu 12.04 behind the proxy.

Problem is in incorrect processing proxy exclusions. Default Ubuntu exclusions are located in no_proxy environment variable:

no_proxy=localhost,127.0.0.0/8

But it seems that /8 mask doesn't work for selenium. To workaround the problem it is enough to change no_proxy to the following:

no_proxy=localhost,127.0.0.1

Removing proxy settings before running python script also helps:

http_proxy= python script.py

You need to first declare url as a sting as below:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait # available since 2.4.0
import time


# Create a new instance of the Firefox driver

String URL = "http://www.google.com";

driver = webdriver.Firefox()


# go to the google home page
driver.get(URL);

Check your browser version and do the following.

1. Download the Firefox/Chrome webdriver from Google

2. Put the webdriver in Chrome's directory.

If your are using it in windows machine, check whether the selenium webdriver you have installed is of the latest one. I just now explored that my webdriver is of old one and it just opens the firefox but it couldn't process the get function.

Updation of the webdriver resolves this problem

I had the similar problem. All I had to do was delete the existing geckodriver.exe and download the latest release of the same. You can find the latest release here https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases.

@Neeraj

I've resolved this problem, but i'm not sure if you are the same reason.

In general, my problem was caused by some permission issues.

I tried to move my whole project into ~/:

mv xxx/ ~/

and then i change give it the 777 permission:

chmod -R 777 xxx/

I'm not familiar with linux permission so i just do this to make sure i have permission to execute the program.

Even you don't have permission, the selenium program will not prompt you.

So, good luck.

I was getting similar problem and Stating string for URL worked for me. :)

package Chrome_Example;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class Launch_Chrome {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Users\\doyes\\Downloads\\chromedriver_win324\\chromedriver.exe");
        String URL = "http://www.google.com";
        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
        driver.get(URL);
    }

}

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30,TimeUnit.SECONDS);
driver.get("http://www.google.com");

OR

import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver,30);
driver.get("http://www.google.com");
//hplogo is the id of Google logo on google.com
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.id("hplogo")));

I was having the save issue. I assume you made sure your java server was running before you started your python script? The java server can be downloaded from selenium's download list.

When I did a netstat to evaluate the open ports, i noticed that the java server wasn't running on the specific "localhost" host:

When I started the server, I found that the port number was 4444 :

$ java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.35.0.jar 
Sep 24, 2013 10:18:57 PM org.openqa.grid.selenium.GridLauncher main
INFO: Launching a standalone server
22:19:03.393 INFO - Java: Apple Inc. 20.51-b01-456
22:19:03.394 INFO - OS: Mac OS X 10.8.5 x86_64
22:19:03.418 INFO - v2.35.0, with Core v2.35.0. Built from revision c916b9d
22:19:03.681 INFO - RemoteWebDriver instances should connect to: http://127.0.0.1:4444/wd/hub
22:19:03.683 INFO - Version Jetty/5.1.x
22:19:03.683 INFO - Started HttpContext[/selenium-server/driver,/selenium-server/driver]
22:19:03.685 INFO - Started HttpContext[/selenium-server,/selenium-server]
22:19:03.685 INFO - Started HttpContext[/,/]
22:19:03.755 INFO - Started org.openqa.jetty.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler@21b64e6a
22:19:03.755 INFO - Started HttpContext[/wd,/wd]
22:19:03.765 INFO - Started SocketListener on 0.0.0.0:4444

I was able to view my listening ports and their port numbers(the -n option) by running the following command in the terminal:

$netstat -an | egrep 'Proto|LISTEN'

This got me the following output

Proto Recv-Q Send-Q  Local Address          Foreign Address        (state)    

tcp46      0      0  *.4444                 *.*                    LISTEN  

I realized this may be a problem, because selenium's socket utils, found in: webdriver/common/utils.py are trying to connect via "localhost" or 127.0.0.1:

socket_.connect(("localhost", port))

once I changed the "localhost" to '' (empty single quotes to represent all local addresses), it started working. So now, the previous line from utils.py looks like this:

socket_.connect(('', port))

I am using MacOs and Firefox 22. The latest version of Firefox at the time of this post is 24, but I heard there are some security issues with the version that may block some of selenium's functionality (I have not verified this). Regardless, for this reason, I am using the older version of Firefox.

I got the same error when issuing a URL without the protocol (like localhost:4200) instead of a correct one also specifying the protocol (e.g. http://localhost:4200).

Google Chrome works fine without the protocol (it takes http as the default), but Firefox crashes with this error.

This worked for me (Tested on Ubuntu Desktop 11.04 with Python-2.7):

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://www.stackoverflow.com")

I was having the save issue when trying with Chrome. I finally placed my chromedrivers.exe in the same location as my project. This fixed it for me.

Try the following code

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

WebDriver DRIVER = new FirefoxDriver();
DRIVER.get("http://www.google.com");