"‘chromedriver’ executable needs to be in PATH" despite me setting the path to it explicitly

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#1

Hi guys,

i have a problem with chromedriver path

the path of chromedriver in my repo is /veles_website/env/chromedriver and my test file is:

def setUp(self):
    self.selenium = webdriver.Chrome("/veles_website/env/chromedriver")

So I don’t know why I have this problem “selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH.”

#2

This error means that the executable is not found.
Check if the path is correct and if the file is there (you are using an absolute path outside /home which is probably not what you want).

Can’t say anything else without seeing the build.

#3

/Users/macbookair/Documents/GitHub/veleos_website/env/chromedriver

this is my path on my laptop we work when I launch my command on my terminal

#5

You can test if it actually is in the python PATH, if you open a cmd and type in chromedriver and hit Enter. If Starting ChromeDriver 2.15.322448 is appearing, the PATH is set appropriately and there is something else going wrong. Then try the following:

Download ChromeDriver

Then you have multiple options:

  • Add it to your system path

  • Put it in the same directory as your python script

  • Specify the location directly via executable_path

  • driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=‘C:/path/to/chromedriver.exe’)

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