How can i set up my geckodriver for selenium?

Question

Im trying to do the obeythetestinggoat tutorial and cant set my geckodriver,

Im working in Win10 64bits

my pip freeze shows:

Django==1.7,selenium==3.141.0,urllib3==1.25.7

i download the geckodriver (geckodriver-v0.26.0-win64) when i try to get the geckodriver version (via $geckodriver --version ) stops and show me a error 'application error'

I think that the error are in the enviroment variables (i was trying to put the file in location where the variables are set (windows/system32 or python/scripts) but nothing works

i also trying this solution (put the file in some file where path are viable) in another computer and works.

Answer 1

I've solve it like this:

1. pip install webdriver-manager

2. in Python i wrote following code and run it:

    from selenium import webdriver from webdriver_manager.firefox import GeckoDriverManager driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=GeckoDriverManager().install())

3. Now add the path below to your PATH variable (of course replace your_user_name with the one you have there:

   c:\users\your_user_name\.wdm\drivers\geckodriver\v0.26.0\win64

   At this point geckodriver should be visible be Selenium from Python. Note: geckodriver does not show up when you run pip freeze

Answer 2

STEP 1 > First You Need To Download The v0.26.0 version make sure you download for correct os if you are using window donwload for window and if you are using linux or other download fo them

STEP2 > Put the geckodirver in your python directory

Step3 > write this code

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get('your url')

Answer 3

This question have been cropping up pretty often recently. To burst the myth, you don't need to install geckodriver anyway.

To set the geckodriver you need to ensure a couple of things as follows:

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Windows 10, 64 bits

Steps:

• As the most recent GeckoDriver release being v0.26.0 , you can download either of the following binaries from Releases - mozilla/geckodriver page and save it within a sub-directory on your system eg within "C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers" :
  • geckodriver-v0.26.0-win64.zip : The 64-bit Windows OS compatible GeckoDriver
  • geckodriver-v0.26.0-win32.zip : The 32-bit Windows OS compatible GeckoDriver
• Unzip the geckodriver-v0.26.0-winXY.zip file and extract the geckodriver.exe (eg "C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\geckodriver.exe" )

• Now you can open the command prompt, change the directory and issue the following command:

   geckodriver --version

• Output:

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Usage

Now you can use the GeckoDriver to initiate a Firefox Browsing session passing the absolute path of the GeckoDriver as an argument using the following lines of code:

• Python:

   from selenium import webdriver driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=r'C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\geckodriver.exe', log_path='./Logs/geckodriver.log') driver.get('http://seleniumhq.org/') driver.quit()

• Java:

   import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver; public class A_Firefox { public static void main(String[] args) { System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:/Utility/BrowserDrivers/geckodriver.exe"); WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(); driver.get("https://stackoverflow.com"); driver.quit(); } }