Selenium will not open site-CodePudding

I am trying to have selenium open a website in Microsoft Edge, and it will not open. The code I am using is

from selenium import webdriver

# create webdriver object
driver = webdriver.ChromiumEdge()
# get goodle.com
driver.get("https://google.com")

It returns this error:

File "c:\Users\Henry\OneDrive\Desktop\Genetic programming\starthere.py", line 21, in <module>
    driver = webdriver.ChromiumEdge()
  File "C:\Users\Henry\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\edge\webdriver.py", line 61, in __init__
    super().__init__(DesiredCapabilities.EDGE['browserName'], "ms",
  File "C:\Users\Henry\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chromium\webdriver.py", line 89, in __init__
    self.service.start()
  File "C:\Users\Henry\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 81, in start
    raise WebDriverException(
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'msedgedriver' executable needs to be in PATH. Please download from https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/webdriver/

I did add the Webdriver exe file to the path, but it still gives this error.

CodePudding user response：

You can directly pass the absolute path to help it locate your driver.

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Edge('C:\path\to\msedgedriver.exe')
#If the first path does not work, try the following one.
driver = webdriver.Edge('C:\\path\\to\\msedgedriver.exe')
driver.get("https://google.com")

CodePudding user response：

Instead of adding it to the PATH try this way pointing directly to the executable:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.edge.service import Service

s = Service(executable_path=r'C:\path\to\msedgedriver.exe')
driver = webdriver.Edge(service=s)