Getting the following error when trying to open web page with Selenium WebDriver in python 3.6?

Question

When I try to execute this code :

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

driver= webdriver.Firefox("C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox")
driver.get("http://google.com")

I get the following error :

C:\Users\vipul\PycharmProjects\newproject\venv\Scripts\python.exe "C:/Users/vipul/PycharmProjects/newproject/Web Scraping.py"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\vipul\PycharmProjects\newproject\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 74, in start
    stdout=self.log_file, stderr=self.log_file)
  File "C:\Users\vipul\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\Lib\subprocess.py", line 709, in __init__
    restore_signals, start_new_session)
  File "C:\Users\vipul\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\Lib\subprocess.py", line 997, in _execute_child
    startupinfo)
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/vipul/PycharmProjects/newproject/Web Scraping.py", line 4, in <module>
    driver= webdriver.Firefox("C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox")
  File "C:\Users\vipul\PycharmProjects\newproject\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\webdriver.py", line 148, in __init__
    self.service.start()
  File "C:\Users\vipul\PycharmProjects\newproject\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 81, in start
    os.path.basename(self.path), self.start_error_message)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'geckodriver' executable needs to be in PATH. 

Process finished with exit code 1

Possible duplicate of [chrome headless browswer selenium python](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46085270/chrome-headless-browswer-selenium-python/46089751#46089751) — undetected Selenium, Dec 22 '17 at 09:24
Possible duplicate of [Selenium using Python - Geckodriver executable needs to be in PATH](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40208051/selenium-using-python-geckodriver-executable-needs-to-be-in-path) — Saurabh Gaur, Dec 22 '17 at 09:47

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 22 '17 at 10:21

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I have faced the same issue before a week ago, I was using Python 2.7 and the latest version of web driver of Chrome, Then I passed geckodriver file path like,

driver= webdriver.Firefox("c://your-path")

This fixed my issue, I hoped for your too.

edited Dec 22 '17 at 10:21

Prabhakar

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answered Dec 22 '17 at 08:54

Sachin Raghav

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Path opens the browser but does not opens the webpage plz help – Vipul Rodrigues Dec 22 '17 at 10:59
Is webpage showing broken error? or any other error you are facing? – Sachin Raghav Dec 23 '17 at 09:41

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 22 '17 at 16:04

Download geckodriver.exe to a particular folder/directory(eg. c:\drivers) then set the driver path.

Try any one of the following ways.

Pass driver path as argument.

driver= webdriver.Firefox("c:\drivers\geckodriver.exe")
driver.get("http://google.com")

Set driver path using enviornment.

import os
os.environ['webdriver.gecko.driver'] ="c:\drivers\geckodriver.exe"
driver.get("http://google.com")

Note: if you are keeping gecko driver exe file in local folder where the script is there. then no need to set or pass the driver path.

Getting the following error when trying to open web page with Selenium WebDriver in python 3.6?

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