Cannot connect to the service chromedriver (Mac)

Asked Jul 30 '20 at 10:07

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I've tried many solutions that others provided on stackoverflow as well as other sites, nothing seems to be working and I have no idea what to do anymore.. This is what ive basically been doing:

from selenium import webdriver
# from chromedriver_py import binary_path

# driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=binary_path)
driver = webdriver.Chrome('/usr/local/bin/chromedriver')

The error

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Can not connect to the Service /usr/local/bin/chromedriver

I've tried:

adjusting my host file in etc/hosts
using an os environ variable for the location of the chromedriver
using chromedriver_py for the binary path
Double checked that chromedriver version is the same as my chrome version

Not sure if this is relevant but im using:

MacOs Sierra 10.12.6
PyCharm 2019 CE

asked Jul 30 '20 at 10:07

il5amees

It's probably permissions problem. Do you have execution permission in chromedriver? – Rubén Paredes Jul 30 '20 at 10:21
@RubénParedes Yes, I gave it permission to run from the security & privacy settings if thats what you mean – il5amees Jul 30 '20 at 10:35
If you use "ls -l" in terminal, you see the permissions i mean, the output should be something like this "... -rwxr-xr-x@ ...". It's important that you have the first rwx, so you can read, write and execute it as owner. – Rubén Paredes Jul 30 '20 at 10:40
@RubénParedes Yup, I have this: -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 – il5amees Jul 30 '20 at 10:51
Hmm, so I recommend that you put the executable in the same folder where you have the script and update this: driver = webdriver.Chrome ('./ chromedriver') – Rubén Paredes Jul 30 '20 at 10:58
@RubénParedes still shows the same error. I think the path is correct, something else needs to be changed im just not sure what it is.. – il5amees Jul 30 '20 at 18:21
Then sorry, I don't know, keep trying. – Rubén Paredes Jul 31 '20 at 07:42

Cannot connect to the service chromedriver (Mac)

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