Running Selenium WebDriver python bindings in chrome

Question

I ran into a problem while working with Selenium. For my project, I have to use Chrome. However, I can't connect to that browser after launching it with Selenium.

For some reason, Selenium can't find Chrome by itself. This is what happens when I try to launch Chrome without including a path:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "./obp_pb_get_csv.py", line 73, in <module>

    browser = webdriver.Chrome() # Get local session of chrome

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 46, in __init__

    self.service.start()

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/service.py", line 58, in start

    and read up at http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver")

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'ChromeDriver executable needs to be available in the path.                 Please download from http://code.google.com/p/selenium/downloads/list                and read up at http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver'

To solve this problem, I then included the Chromium path in the code that launches Chrome. However, the interpreter fails to find a socket to connect to:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "./obp_pb_get_csv.py", line 73, in <module>

    browser = webdriver.Chrome('/usr/bin/chromium') # Get local session of chrome

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 46, in __init__

    self.service.start()

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/service.py", line 64, in start

    raise WebDriverException("Can not connect to the ChromeDriver")

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'Can not connect to the ChromeDriver'

I also tried solving the problem by launching chrome with:

chromium --remote-shell-port=9222

However, this did not work either.

PS. Here's some information about my system:

www-client: chromium 15.0.874.121  

dev-lang:   python 2.7.2-r3 Selenium 2.11.1  

OS:         GNU/Linux Gentoo Kernel 3.1.0-gentoo-r1

Answer 1

Step 1: Check if you have installed the latest version of chrome brwoser-> chromium-browser -version. If not, install the latest version of chrome by using sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

Step 2: get the appropriate version of chrome driver from here

Step 3: Unzip the chromedriver.zip

Step 4: Now, move the file to /usr/bin directory sudo mv chromedriver /usr/bin

Step 5: Goto /usr/bin directory cd /usr/bin

Step 6: Now, you would need to run something like sudo chmod a+x chromedriver to mark it executable.

Step 7: Finally you can execute the code.

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome()

driver.get("http://www.google.com")

print driver.page_source.encode('utf-8')

driver.quit()

display.stop()

For more information please go through the following tutorial to get more info about selenium: