how to resolve this error in python webscraping?

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I imported selenium modules in python file but when i run this code I got

Traceback (most recent call last): 
File "koovs.py", line 4, in <module>
  browser=webdriver.Firefox()
File "C:\Users\hp\Anaconda2\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\webdriver.py", line 140, in __init__
  self.service.start()
File "C:\Users\hp\Anaconda2\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.
Exception AttributeError: "'Service' object has no attribute 'process'" in <bound method Service.__del__ of
<selenium.webdriver.firefox.service.Service object at 0x0000000003228400>> ignored

What i have to do. My code is

from selenium import webdriver
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
browser=webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get('http://www.koovs.com/women/dresses/sortby-discount-high/')
soup=BeautifulSoup(browser.page_source)

Can you confirm what OS you're on and/or VM setup? And that Firefox is installed and the executable is in your PATH? I assume you're on Windows. Maybe check out this answer stackoverflow.com/a/17582010/823942 to see if you leads you down the right path. — Matt R. Wilson
– Matt R. Wilson, Commented Jan 3, 2017 at 6:14

yumere · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-03 09:04:20Z

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Did you install geckodriver?

To use Firefox webdriver, You must install geckodriver. And put the binary file into folder which can be accessed by system PATH.

answered Jan 3, 2017 at 9:04

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Sajib Khan · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-04 05:05:56Z

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Go to the link and download geckodriver based on your windows 32 or 64 bit.

Extract the geckodriver.exe to your computer and add the corresponding path to Environmental variables.

For Example: if you extracted the geckodriver.exe to Desktop, you should add desktop path to Path Env. variable.

Then re-execute your code. Sometimes env. var don't reflect. In this case, you might need to restart your IDE (like Eclipse).

Hope it helps.

edited Jan 4, 2017 at 5:05

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answered Jan 4, 2017 at 3:19

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