Can't use chrome driver for Selenium

Question

I'm having trouble using the Chrome driver for Selenium. I have the chromedriver downloaded and saved to C:\Chrome:

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:/Chrome/")

Using that gives me the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python33\lib\subprocess.py", line 1105, in _execute_child
    startupinfo)
PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\service.py", line 63, in start
    self.service_args, env=env, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
  File "C:\Python33\lib\subprocess.py", line 817, in __init__
    restore_signals, start_new_session)
  File "C:\Python33\lib\subprocess.py", line 1111, in _execute_child
    raise WindowsError(*e.args)
PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/Wilson/Dropbox/xxx.py", line 71, in <module>
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:/Chrome/")
  File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py", line 59, in __init__
    self.service.start()
  File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\service.py", line 68, in start
    and read up at http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver")
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'ChromeDriver executable needs to be available in the path.                 Please download from http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html  

Any help would be appreciated.

Solution 1

You should specify the executable file path, not the directory path that contains the executable.

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r"C:\Chrome\chromedriver.exe")

Solution 2

For Linux

1. Check you have installed latest version of chrome browser-> "chromium-browser -version"
2. If not, install latest version of chrome "sudo apt-get install chromium-browser"
3. Get the appropriate version of chrome driver from http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html
4. Unzip the chromedriver.zip
5. Move the file to /usr/bin directory sudo mv chromedriver /usr/bin
6. Goto /usr/bin directory and you would need to run something like "chmod a+x chromedriver" to mark it executable.
7. finally you can execute the code.

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("http://www.google.com")
display.stop()

Solution 3

For windows

Download webdriver from:

http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.9/chromedriver_win32.zip

Paste the chromedriver.exe file in "C:\Python27\Scripts" Folder.

This should work now.

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()

Solution 4

In addition to the selected answer (windows style path):

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r"C:\Chrome\chromedriver.exe")

Note the r in front of the "C:\Chrome\chromedriver.exe", this makes this string a raw string.

In case you do not want to use a raw string you should escape the slash like so \\, this would become:

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:\\Chrome\\chromedriver.exe")

Or you can replace the \ with a /, you will get this:

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:/Chrome/chromedriver.exe")

Solution 5

For Debian/Ubuntu - it works:

install Google Chrome for Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install libxss1 libappindicator1 libindicator7
wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-
stable_current_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i google-chrome*.deb
sudo apt-get install -f

Install ChromeDriver:

wget -N http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.26/chromedriver_linux64.zip
unzip chromedriver_linux64.zip
chmod +x chromedriver

sudo mv -f chromedriver /usr/local/share/chromedriver
sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/chromedriver /usr/local/bin/chromedriver
sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/chromedriver /usr/bin/chromedriver

Install Selenium:

pip install -U selenium

Selenium in Python:

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('https://www.google.co.in/')

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Comments

[Marco Aurélio Deleu]

Why the --no-sandbox?

[Jaqueline Passos]

Worked like a charm for Mac without the .exe estension

[vikramvi]

Isn't chromedriver should be put under /usr/local/bin directory in Ubuntu instead of /usr/bin ? please clarify

[Jayakrishnan Nair]

Note: Can use apt instead of apt-get in more recent versions of ubuntu.

[Corey Goldberg]

@vikramvi it doesn't matter as long as the directory is on your path

[vikramvi]

@CoreyGoldberg I will prefer to put under default directory instead of custom directory

[Tom]

Can you add some further information as to how this helps solve the initial question?

[Dave]

While this code may solve the question, including an explanation of how and why this solves the problem would really help to improve the quality of your post, and probably result in more up-votes. Remember that you are answering the question for readers in the future, not just the person asking now. Please edit your answer to add explanation, and give an indication of what limitations and assumptions apply.

[zero]

hi there - whats the difference between driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:/Chrome/") and this one driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r"C:\Chrome\chromedriver.ex‌​e") Note: i work on Win10 - i have issues with the chromedriver too - so i am working on the same things - look forward to hear from you

[zero]

good evening dear Viky - many thanks for the great answer. BTW - one question left: hi there - whats the difference between driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:/Chrome/") and this one driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r"C:\Chrome\chromedriver.ex‌​e") Note: i work on Win10 - i have issues with the chromedriver too - so i am working on the same things - look forward to hear from you

[falsetru]

@zero, Sorry, I don't have an access to windows 10 machine. Please post a separated question so that others with windows machine can answer you.

[Victor Di]

before installing latest version of chromium-browser make sure that you have the latest version of google chrome itself with >sudo apt install google-chrome-stable