Getting Chrome Driver Not In Path When Moving My Selenium Executable To Another Computer

I wrote a small automation script using Python and Selenium Web Driver and I made it into an executable and the executable worked fine on my computer but when I tried it on another

Solution 1:

There're couple of good solutions for that issue:

1.Install webdriver-manager package:

pip install webdriver-manager

what I prefer mostly and use it like:

from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())

2.Launch Remote Selenium Hub called Selenoid and lauch browser remotely:

driver = webdriver.Remote(command_executor='ip_of_your_selenoid_instance:4444/wd/hub',desired_capabilities=DesiredCapabilities.CHROME)

3.You can launch Chrome docker container and also going to by remote url, what will be always localhost:

driver = webdriver.Remote(command_executor='http://127.0.0.1:4444/wd/hub',desired_capabilities=DesiredCapabilities.CHROME)

Solution 2:

You need to launch a standalone chrome browser:

docker run -d -p 4444:4444 selenium/standalone-chrome

and then in your python script launch browser using Remote webdriver:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities
driver = webdriver.Remote("http://127.0.0.1:4444/wd/hub", DesiredCapabilities.CHROME)

docker-compose:

# docker-compose.yml

selenium:
  image: selenium/standalone-firefox
  ports:
  - 4444:4444

Solution 3:

pyinstaller unpacks everything into a temporary directory during execution of exe, when using the --onefile mode. Refer to this answer and the related post to get an idea about how to get the correct relative path. You might have to use

path = resource_path("chromedriver")

Also, you can directly add the chromedriver to PATH environment variable in the runtime so you wouldn't have to specify the path explicitly and you can simply call webdriver.Chrome()

os.environ["PATH"] += os.pathsep + resource_path("chromedriver")

pyinstaller conciders usr/local/bin/chromedriver:. as a relative path, thus adds /Users/sergio in an attempt to make it absolute, try using a different location. This location doesn't matter anyway, once this file is found pyinstaller will add this to the root directory of the compiled exe, and unpack it when the exe is executed.

Solution 4:

The modern way to deal with the chromedriver binary is to use WebDriverManager. First you need to install the manager:

pip install webdriver-manager

Then you use it (for Chrome):

from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager

driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())

In my .NET Core project I use not the most modern approach I have described, but the latest stable NuGet from here https://www.nuget.org/packages/Selenium.WebDriver.ChromeDriver/. Basically the nuget contains the chromedriver and copies it every time to your assembly folder (\bin\Debug\netcoreapp3.1 in my case). This is the line I have in my project:

"<PackageReference Include="Selenium.WebDriver.ChromeDriver" Version="*" />"

The star means the latest (highest number) stable package will be used as explained here. Of course you can install the latest version manually, and then on each 2 major Chrome versions to update the NuGet package reference so that is matches your Chrome version. (87 chromedriver works with 87 and 88 Chrome, but not with 89). Then the driver is instantiated with this lines:

var driver = new ChromeDriver(Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location);

References:
Error message: "'chromedriver' executable needs to be available in the path" https://www.automatetheplanet.com/webdriver-net50/

Solution 5:

path = "/Users/sergio/chromedriver"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(path)

Change the above code to the following format

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='C:/Users/sergio/chromedriver.exe')