Permission error [winerror 5] access is denied-Selenium chrome webdriver

Question

I'm following a tutorial on using selenium and I'm having trouble getting started. Namely, when I try to run the code below, I get the error below. I have seen other users with the same problem, I have tried their solutions, they did not work.

These solutions include:

• running pycharm as administrator,
• setting permissions for all
• group/usernames of subprocess.py and service.py
• site-package(and pretty much every file/folder within) to full access.

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(r"C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome")
driver.get("http://python.org")

Here is the full error message:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\\Users\\User\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python37-32\\lib\\site-packages\\selenium\\webdriver\\common\\service.py", line 76, in start stdin=PIPE) File "C:\\Users\\User\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python37-32\\lib\\subprocess.py", line 775, in init restore_signals, start_new_session) File "C:\\Users\\User\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python37-32\\lib\\subprocess.py", line 1178, in _execute_child startupinfo) PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:/Users/User/PycharmProjects/PythonProject/DataCollection", line 2, in driver = webdriver.Chrome(r"C:\\Users\\User\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python37-32\\Lib\\site-packages\\selenium\\webdriver\\chrome") File "C:\\Users\\User\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python37-32\\lib\\site-packages\\selenium\\webdriver\\chrome\\webdriver.py", line 73, in init self.service.start() File "C:\\Users\\User\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python37-32\\lib\\site-packages\\selenium\\webdriver\\common\\service.py", line 88, in start os.path.basename(self.path), self.start_error_message) selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'chrome' executable may have wrong permissions. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home

Answer 1

first, replace all \\ with /

and then add the executable filename in the file location:

driver = webdriver.Chrome(r'C:/Users/User/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python37-32/Lib/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/chromedriver.exe')