I am having trouble getting Firefox to work with Selenium (Python) as it doesn't seem to be able to find geckodriver.exe

Question

For a bit of context I am on a 64-bit, Windows 10 operating system and my python version is 3.9.7. I have Firefox version 96.0.2 installed and geckodriver 0.30.0

Every time I try and run webdriver.Firefox() I get the exception: 'geckodriver' executable needs to be in PATH.

I have extracted the geckodriver executable (For want of anywhere better I put the executable in the Mozilla Firefox folder in C:\Program Files and tried to add it to PATH by doing the following:

• On Windows system right click on My Computer or This PC.

• Select Properties.

• Select advanced system settings.

• Click on the Environment Variables button.

• From System Variables select Path.

• Click on Edit button.

• Click New button.

• Paste the path of GeckoDriver file.

So now at the bottom of the list in the Path environment variable I have 'C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox'. I have also tried 'C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\geckodriver.exe'. In both cases I still get the same error message about geckodriver needing to be in PATH.

Can anyone please tell me what is going on and how to fix it?

Answer 1

You can set executeble path inside the "Firefox" function

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path="C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\geckodriver.exe")
driver.get('http://test.com')