How to include chromedriver with pyinstaller?

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It should be added as a binary file, since it is a binary file...
So a custom spec file needed where the chromedriver's path on the local system and the desired location relative to the dist\myscript should be defined, so it looks something like this:

.....
a = Analysis(['myscript.py'],
             pathex=['path\\to\\my\\script'],
             binaries=[ ('path\\to\\my\\chromedriver.exe', '.\\selenium\\webdriver') ],
             datas=None,
....

And then run the pyinstaller with this spec file: pyinstaller myscript.spec myscript.py

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Updated on June 14, 2022

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  • monami
    monami almost 2 years

    I am using pyinstaller to create an executable of my python script.
    In the script I'm using these imports:

    from selenium import webdriver
    from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
    etc...
    

    The problem is, when running pyinstaller myscript.py , it will result in including Firefox, instead of Chrome. In the result folder c:...\dist\myscript\selenium\webdriver there is a firefox folder, so it is simply skipping chromedriver, and it is a serious problem for me, because the script needs to run with Chrome.
    There is only a few questions around this topic, but there is no answer to solve the issue.
    I was thinking on adding the --hidden-import MODULENAME tag to the command, but chromedriver.exe is not a module... Thanks

  • Phillip
    Phillip over 7 years
    I have a question regarding your answer
  • Phillip
    Phillip over 7 years
    Here is an updated question
  • Hrvoje T
    Hrvoje T over 5 years
    Here is pyinstaller example explained in details. hackernoon.com/…. And here how packaging works python-packaging.readthedocs.io/en/latest/everything.html
  • Heinz
    Heinz almost 5 years
    How about firefox webdriver?