Selenium WebDriver Unable to Find ChromeDriver-CodePudding

Recently I've been trying to do some webscraping, however I am utterly unable to run Selenium's webdriver.

I am trying to run this basic boilerplate code:

import pandas as pd
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from selenium import webdriver
import time

web = webdriver.Chrome(service_args=["--verbose", "--log-path=D:\\qc1.log"])
url = 'https://www.google.com/'

web.get(url)

However this results in the following error:

raise WebDriverException(f"Service {self.path} unexpectedly exited. Status code was: {return_code}")
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Service chromedriver unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 1

From doing some research, this error was because ChromeDriver was not being found

I can confirm that Chrome and Chromedriver are up to date: Chrome Version ChromeDriver Version

I can also confirm that I have ChromeDriver successfully added as a PATH environment variable

I have tried other solutions, such as using a path instead:

import pandas as pd
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from selenium import webdriver
import time

PATH = 'C:\webdrivers\chromedriver.exe'

web = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=PATH, service_args=["--verbose", "--log-path=D:\\qc1.log"])
url = 'https://www.google.com/'

web.get(url)

however the same error persists.

I have also tried adding options to the WebDriver, but to no avail.

When running without service_args added, the webpage will briefly open, before closing itself with no crash information

CodePudding user response：

You can try the other option of importing the Chromedriver through webdriver_manager like this:

from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager

service = ChromeService(executable_path=ChromeDriverManager().install())
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service)

CodePudding user response：

Have you install the libraries, you are using in your project.

pip install -u Selenium
pip install pandas
pip install bs4

The rest would be automatically installed into your project. If you are using pycharm