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When I use "webdriver.Chrome()". I encountering an error when running this code:

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()

Here's the error that showes up:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 76, in start
    stdin=PIPE)
  File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\subprocess.py", line 775, in __init__
    restore_signals, start_new_session)
  File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\subprocess.py", line 1178, 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 "<pyshell#2>", line 1, in <module>
    driver = webdriver.Chrome()
  File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py", line 73, in __init__
    self.service.start()
  File "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 83, in start
    os.path.basename(self.path), self.start_error_message)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home

I don't have any idea what to make of this. And I haven't found anyone with the same issue. Anyone know a fix?

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    PATH is an environment variable which, among other things, is used to tell python which directories (folders) executables (such as chromedriver.exe) live in. The error you're getting is complaining that python can't find chromedriver.exe in your PATH environment variable, so you either need to find a way to add the directory where chromedriver.exe is stored on your computer into the PATH environment variable, or specify the full path to the executable when you call webdriver.Chrome(). Commented Oct 9, 2019 at 13:01

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You need to chromedriver binary and the path of binary as below:

driver = webdriver.Chrome('/usr/local/bin/chromedriver.exe')

Download your chromedriver as per your chrome version from below location :

https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html

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