Chromedriver is not being found: executable needs to be in PATH

Question

I have a windows64 bit machine and I downloaded the chromedriver on the exact location it is supposed to be and my file path is this:

'C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe\chromedriver'

Then I wrote this code:

import selenium from selenium import webdriver driver=webdriver.Chrome('C:\Users\pushp\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe\chromedriver')

However, I am getting a file not found error and also this message -

'Message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH.'

How do I fix this?

Should be double ‘\\’ , example c:\\users\\ also use the extension - chromedriver.exe — 0m3r
– 0m3r, Commented Apr 9, 2020 at 4:44
It is now giving this error - 'WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Failed to create Chrome process.' — Subha Nawer Pushpita
– Subha Nawer Pushpita, Commented Apr 9, 2020 at 5:27

Arundeep Chohan · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-09 05:35:01Z

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 driver =webdriver.Chrome(r'C:\Users\pushp\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe\chromedriver.exe')

Just need to add .exe

edited Apr 9, 2020 at 5:35

answered Apr 9, 2020 at 5:21

Arundeep Chohan

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Subha Nawer Pushpita Over a year ago

But it is giving this error message - 'SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape' and doing the one in the comment is also giving another error :(

Arundeep Chohan Over a year ago

didn't see the \u at the start.

0m3r · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-09 06:08:15Z

Set it like the following

import selenium from selenium import webdriver webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r"C:\Users\pushp\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chromedriver.exe")

Or

webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:\\Users\\pushp\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chromedriver.exe")

You can also install pip install webdriver-manager then run the following code which will install the correct webdriver for you

from selenium import webdriver from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())

It's still showing the same error - 'WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Failed to create Chrome process.' :(
I installed chromedriver in a different location so that chromedriver.exe is not stored in another exe file , so now my location looks like 'C:\Users\pushp\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chromedriver_win32\chromedriver.exe' and I wrote - driver=webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\Users\pushp\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chromedriver_win32\chromedriver.exe')

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