Chromedriver executable may have wrong permissions

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Hell, so I am running widows 10 with the latest webdriver in selenium python 3.7. I've had this code work on another machine but when I use it on my new laptop I get the error in the title. I have the driver in my path in multiple places and I specify it in my code, but I have no idea why I am getting this error. My code line below:

chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")
chrome_options.add_argument("--incognito")
browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\WebDrivers\chromedriver\chromedriver.exe', chrome_options=chrome_options)

Any help on this would be great. I read the other solutions for this and they did not seem to work at all for me

What error you are getting? – Navarasu Oct 18 '18 at 17:37 — Navarasu, Oct 18 '18 at 17:37
@Taryn, please share the error stack trace you received – Kireeti Annamaraj Oct 18 '18 at 18:03 — Kireeti Annamaraj, Oct 18 '18 at 18:03
@Navarasu The error is the title name – Taryn Antoinette Raines Oct 19 '18 at 00:18 — Taryn Antoinette Raines, Oct 19 '18 at 00:18

Navarasu · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-27T14:15:57.270

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Instead of configuring the chrome driver manually.You can use webdriver-manager, this will automatically download and set the path of the driver location.

You can get it from pip,

pip install webdriver-manager

Now you simply call ChromeDriverManager().install() to do it automatically. Instead of worrying about the path.

from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager

chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")
chrome_options.add_argument("--incognito")
browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=ChromeDriverManager().install(), chrome_options=chrome_options)

edited Jun 27 '20 at 14:15

answered Oct 18 '18 at 17:44

Navarasu

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I tried your suggestion but for some reason I get the exact same error when using this code and the webdriver manager – Taryn Antoinette Raines Oct 19 '18 at 00:26
If you are going to post a python snippet, you should also include the import line – philm Jun 26 '20 at 15:20
Added import statement to snippet – Navarasu Jun 27 '20 at 14:16

Chromedriver executable may have wrong permissions

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