can't conda install chromedriver

Question

So i'm working on a little project where i scrape yahoo news comments.

There has a error when I try to install chromedriver.

I wonder that I made some mistake, I would be appreciate it if someone could tell me.

(base) PS C:\Users\aaa> conda install chromedriver
Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): done
Solving environment: failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with flexible solve.
Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): done
Solving environment: failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with flexible solve.

PackagesNotFoundError: The following packages are not available from current channels:

  - chromedriver

Current channels:

  - https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/win-64
  - https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/noarch
  - https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/win-64
  - https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/noarch
  - https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/msys2/win-64
  - https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/msys2/noarch

To search for alternate channels that may provide the conda package you're
looking for, navigate to

    https://anaconda.org

and use the search bar at the top of the page.

than when I downloaded the file from <sites.google.com/chromium.org/driver> and open the exe file, that showed

Starting ChromeDriver 93.0.4577.63 (ff5c0da2ec0adeaed5550e6c7e98417dac77d98a-refs/branch-heads/4577@{#1135}) on port 9515
Only local connections are allowed.
Please see https://chromedriver.chromium.org/security-considerations for suggestions on keeping ChromeDriver safe.
ChromeDriver was started successfully.

when I run the code

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()

that showed the error:

WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: cannot find Chrome binary
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.38.552522 (437e6fbedfa8762dec75e2c5b3ddb86763dc9dcb),platform=Windows NT 10.0.19043 x86_64)

I wonder if the chrome version is too old.

what should I do?

Answer 1

I hope this solves the problem, but I found this command here

 conda install -c conda-forge python-chromedriver-binary

EDIT:

the chrome driver requires that you specify google chrome and chromedriver paths.

first you need to download the chromedriver from here , then in your python code add the paths as follows:

from selenium import webdriver

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.binary_location = r"<YOUR_CHROME_PATH>\chrome.exe"
chrome_driver_path = r"<PATH_TO_CHROME_DRIVER>\chromedriver.exe>"

browser = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_driver_path, options=options)