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I'm writing a program that will search a website for specific entries inside of articles, I'm using selenium webdriver for Python.

While attempting to connect to the site I get this exception:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "search.py", line 26, in <module> test.search_for_keywords() File "search.py", line 13, in search_for_keywords browser = webdriver.Firefox() File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium-3.0.0b2-py2.7.egg\selenium\webdriver\firefox\webdriver.py", line 65, in __init__ self.service.start() File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium-3.0.0b2-py2.7.egg\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 86, in start self.assert_process_still_running() File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium-3.0.0b2-py2.7.egg\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 99, in assert_process_still_running % (self.path, return_code) selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Service geckodriver unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 2

It's saying that the webdriver unexpectedly exited. How can I fix this issue? I'm trying to connect with firefox version 48.0 with python version 2.7.12

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Running python selenium tests in latest Firefox browser (Version 47 above)

“Marionette" or "Gecko Driver” is the future version of firefox driver. Firefox 47+ is not compatible with the driver used in Selenium 2.53, and Selenium 3+ will be using a new driver called "Marionette" or "Gecko Driver" (which isn't officially released yet).

Prerequisites:

• Mozilla firefox : Version 50.0.2(Version 47 above)

• Selenium : Version 3.0.2

• Geckodriver : Version 0.11.1

• Python : Version 2.7.3

Setup:

• Selenium : pip install –U selenium

• Geckodriver : Download the geckodriver from https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases , unzip the file and place it in a folder

• Set the ‘Path’ environment variable with geckodriver path

Sample script:

from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.firefox.firefox_binary import FirefoxBinary from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities

#Provide the Firefox binary path

binary = FirefoxBinary(r'C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe’) caps = DesiredCapabilities.FIREFOX.copy()

#Set ‘marionette’ browser to True

caps['marionette'] = True

#Launch the Firefox instance by specifying the geckodriver executable path

driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_binary=binary,capabilities=caps, executable_path`='D:/Installers/geckodriver-v0.11.1-win64/geckodriver')

You are done ...!

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Good answer, bear in mind that when you give the executable path of the geckodriver you need to include the entire exe address. See this answer: stackoverflow.com/questions/41919932/…
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I fixed this, I deleted the egg that was installed and reinstalled selenium, it works perfectly now.

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Could you elaborate what you mean by egg, because i am having the same problem.
look at stackoverflow.com/questions/2051192/what-is-a-python-egg
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I had this problem on MacOS Big Sur and it's a security issue. To resolve it, go to your system preferences -> Security & Privacy and at the bottom it will complain about geckodriver. You need to click "Allow Anyway."

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