Problems with Chrome webdriver-CodePudding

Getting started with using Chrome webdrivers and selenium. When I execute the code:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait




driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path = \
                          r"C:\Users\payto\Downloads\chromedriver_win32.zip\chromedriver.exe")

I keep getting this error:

WebDriverException: 'chromedriver.exe' executable needs to be in PATH. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home

I've looked up how to solve it, but anything I see says to install a webdriver...which I've already done. My Chrome version is 107 and that's the one I downloaded, so it should be working but it's not. Any tips?

CodePudding user response：

You can use webdriver_manager instead of constantly setting executable_path and chromedriver yourself.

For chrome driver:

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

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

it will automatically download the appropriate chromedriver. if it's already loaded, it finds it in the cache and uses it directly.

CodePudding user response：

Solution

You can get rid of all driver versions issues by using ChromeDriverManager

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

driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service(ChromeDriverManager().install()))
driver.maximize_window()
driver.get("https://www.google.com")

OR Fixing the issue in your existing code like .. Downloading a specific version of ChromeDriver you can use the following code block:

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

s = Service('C:/Users/hp/Downloads/chromedriver/chromedriver.exe')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=s)

You can find more discussion here, hope this will help you.