How do I install Geckodriver?

Question

I am attempting to work with Selenium in Python. However, I do not know what to do given the below from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/selenium

Selenium requires a driver to interface with the chosen browser. Firefox, for example, requires geckodriver, which needs to be installed before the below examples can be run. Make sure it’s in your PATH, e.g., place it in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin.

I am running windows 7 32bit. I found geckodriver here: https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases

I have mostly used the Anaconda distribution of Python to work with excel so I do not know what is a "PATH"

Thanks,

UPDATE:

I updated the PATH as shown in the comments. Here is the full error traceback.

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\user1>python

Python 3.5.2 |Anaconda 4.2.0 (32-bit)| (default, Jul 5 2016, 11:45:57) [MSC v.1 900 32 bit (Intel)] on win32

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "", line 1, in

File "C:\Users\user1\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\lib\site -packages\selenium-2.53.6-py3.5.egg\selenium\webdriver\firefox\webdriver.py", li ne 80, in init self.binary, timeout)

File "C:\Users\user1\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\lib\site -packages\selenium-2.53.6-py3.5.egg\selenium\webdriver\firefox\extension_connect ion.py", line 52, in init self.binary.launch_browser(self.profile, timeout=timeout)

File "C:\Users\user1\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\lib\site -packages\selenium-2.53.6-py3.5.egg\selenium\webdriver\firefox\firefox_binary.py ", line 67, in launch_browser self._start_from_profile_path(self.profile.path)

File "C:\Users\user1\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\lib\site -packages\selenium-2.53.6-py3.5.egg\selenium\webdriver\firefox\firefox_binary.py ", line 90, in _start_from_profile_path env=self._firefox_env)

File "C:\Users\user1\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\lib\subp rocess.py", line 947, in init restore_signals, start_new_session)

File "C:\Users\user1\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3\lib\subp rocess.py", line 1224, in _execute_child startupinfo)

FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

Solution 1

1. You can download the geckodriver
2. unzip it
3. Copy that .exe file and put your into python parent folder (e.g., C:\Python34)
4. write your scripts.

It will execute successfully.

Solution 2

The easiest way if you are on windows:

driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=r'[Your path]\geckodriver.exe')

Example:

driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=r'D:\geckodriver.exe')

Solution 3

There is an easy way to install Geckodriver:

1. Install webdrivermanager with pip

   pip install webdrivermanager

2. Install the driver for Firefox and Chrome

   webdrivermanager firefox chrome --linkpath /usr/local/bin

3. Or install the driver only for Firefox

   webdrivermanager firefox --linkpath /usr/local/bin

4. Or install the driver only for Chrome

   webdrivermanager chrome --linkpath /usr/local/bin

Solution 4

If you're on macOS/Apple, you can use Homebrew: brew install geckodriver

See this related question

Solution 5

For Linux:

The following simple installation worked for me:

sudo apt install firefox-geckodriver

No additional driver installation was required.

Reference: https://github.com/timgrossmann/InstaPy/issues/5282#issuecomment-666283451

For windows:

Follow the instructions here: http://www.learningaboutelectronics.com/Articles/How-to-install-geckodriver-Python-windows.php

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