Selenium: by typing in the command pip install selenium. In order to install ChromeDriver, make sure you have already installed: Below we show two different ways of installing it. We will install one package to help us here: ChromeDriver. This is especially true when the site we want to scrape has content that is loaded dynamically with javascript. Sometimes when we scrape the web, we need to automate our computer to open a web browser to gather information from each page. Want to change something or add new content? Click the Contribute button! Web Scraping Using an Automated Browser : Message: ‘chromedriver.exe’ executable needs to be in PATH.Visit our GitHub or LinkedIn page to join the Tilburg Science Hub community, or check out our contributors' Hall of Fame!

Raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)įileNotFoundError: No such file or directory: ‘/lorenmspeer/Downloads/chromedriver.exe’ĭuring handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:įile “/home/lorenmspeer/mu_code/seleniumTest22.py”, line 5, inįile “/home/lorenmspeer/.local/share/mu/mu_venv-38-20210401-164244/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py”, line 73, in initįile “/home/lorenmspeer/.local/share/mu/mu_venv-38-20210401-164244/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py”, line 81, in start

Self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,įile “/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py”, line 1702, in _execute_child Self.process = subprocess.Popen(cmd, env=self.env,įile “/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py”, line 854, in init Your executable path is wherever you saved the chrome webdriverĬhromedriver = “/lorenmspeer/Downloads/chromedriver.exe”īrowser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=chromedriver)įile “/home/lorenmspeer/.local/share/mu/mu_venv-38-20210401-164244/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py”, line 72, in start Thanks for trying to make this simple – I am requiring assistance still.

Install chromedriver