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Selenium won't open a link - Justin2444 - Apr-07-2020
My code is:
from selenium import webdriver
class Bot:
def __init__(self):
self.driver = webdriver.Chrome()
self.driver.get("https://instagram.com")
Bot()
I get errors in lines that don't exist. The errors are incredibly long and I assume it is errors with webdriver code but I'm not sure. Here are the errors:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Justin\PycharmProjects\Instagram bot\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 72, in start
self.process = subprocess.Popen(cmd, env=self.env,
File "C:\Users\Justin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\subprocess.py", line 854, in __init__
self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
File "C:\Users\Justin\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python38-32\lib\subprocess.py", line 1307, in _execute_child
hp, ht, pid, tid = _winapi.CreateProcess(executable, args,
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/Justin/PycharmProjects/Instagram bot/Bot.py", line 10, in <module>
Bot()
File "C:/Users/Justin/PycharmProjects/Instagram bot/Bot.py", line 6, in __init__
self.driver = webdriver.Chrome()
File "C:\Users\Justin\PycharmProjects\Instagram bot\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py", line 73, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "C:\Users\Justin\PycharmProjects\Instagram bot\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 81, in start
raise WebDriverException(
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home
Anyone know how to fix this?
RE: Selenium won't open a link - snippsat - Apr-07-2020
(Apr-07-2020, 03:51 AM)Justin2444 Wrote: selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH. Please seBye this mean that
chromedriver.exe must be in Environment Variables Path.Driver can also be in same folder as you run script,that will also work.
Here a typical setup where set
executable_path and options(where can eg set headless).So
C:\cmder\bin folder is in my Windows Path.from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import time
#--| Setup
options = Options()
options.add_argument("--headless")
options.add_argument('--disable-gpu')
options.add_argument('--log-level=3')
browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\cmder\bin\chromedriver.exe', options=options)
#--| Parse or automation
browser.get('https://www.morningstar.com/stocks/XOSL/XXL/quote.html')
time.sleep(1)
soup = BeautifulSoup(browser.page_source, 'lxml')
price_sales = soup.select('li:nth-child(9) > div > div.dp-value.ng-binding')
print(price_sales[0].text.strip())Output:0.13RE: Selenium won't open a link - Larz60+ - Apr-07-2020
FYI
if using virtual environment, I usually put the drivers in the venv/bin directory.
This way they are always accessible by the software