WebDriverException Message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH ( Error on mac M1)

Question

I am trying web scrapping with selenium and therefore following the below code. However, I encounter an error with chromedriver path, I am unable to figure out on mac M1. I've tried several methods to solve this.

Any hints?

from selenium import webdriver

from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service

from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

chromeOptions = Options()

chromeOptions.headless = False

s = Service("usr/local/bin/chromedriver")

driver = webdriver.Chrome(service= s, options = chromeOptions )

I am getting the below error:

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SeleniumManagerException                  Traceback (most recent call last)
/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py in start(self)
     95                 try:
---> 96                     path = SeleniumManager().driver_location(browser)
     97                 except WebDriverException as new_err:

7 frames
SeleniumManagerException: Message: Selenium manager failed for: /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/linux/selenium-manager --browser chrome. /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/linux/selenium-manager: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found (required by /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/linux/selenium-manager)
/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/linux/selenium-manager: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.28' not found (required by /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/linux/selenium-manager)


During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

WebDriverException                        Traceback (most recent call last)
/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py in _start_process(self, path)
    210         except OSError as err:
    211             if err.errno == errno.ENOENT:
--> 212                 raise WebDriverException(
    213                     f"'{os.path.basename(self.path)}' executable needs to be in PATH. {self.start_error_message}"
    214                 )

WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH. Please see https://chromedriver.chromium.org/home

Answer 1

You need to provide also the file name of the webdriver in the path, so in your case:

usr/local/bin/chromedriver

should be like:

usr/local/bin/chromedriver/chromedriver 

if the name of the folder matches the webdriver file name. At least according to the error it seems like chromedriver is a folder where you have placed the real webdriver file.