How do I fix this error in selenium webdriver?

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I am using selenium pyhthon to try and open amazon.com in google chrome, but I keep getting this error message when I run the code.

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: cannot find Chrome binary

I have tried to search up this error on stackoverflow, but all I can find is Selenium gives "selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: cannot find Chrome binary" on Mac, which I cannot understand. I am using mac M1 and I have the chrome version 92.0.4515.107. My code is

from selenium import webdriver

chrome_driver_path = "/Users/asznee/selenium/chromedriver"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_driver_path)

driver.get("https://www.amazon.com")

Where is your Google Chrome installed , in which directory ? — cruisepandey
– cruisepandey, Commented Jul 24, 2021 at 7:02
this may help: stackoverflow.com/questions/64459351/chrome-driver-selenium/… please check the location of your chromedriver — Pygirl
– Pygirl, Commented Jul 24, 2021 at 7:03
My google chrome is /User/asznee/Desktop/Downloads/Google Chrome — Ethan Ethan
– Ethan Ethan, Commented Jul 24, 2021 at 7:10
And my chrome driver is in /User/asznee/selenium/chromedriver — Ethan Ethan
– Ethan Ethan, Commented Jul 24, 2021 at 7:12
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: no chrome binary at /User/asznee/Desktop/Downloads/Google Chrome. This is the error once I put 'options.binary_location = "/User/asznee/Desktop/Downloads/Google Chrome"' as the chrome_options — Ethan Ethan
– Ethan Ethan, Commented Jul 24, 2021 at 7:16

cruisepandey · Accepted Answer · 2021-07-24 07:45:38Z

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See your Google chrome is not installed in default location which is

C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application

it is installed :

C:\Users\asznee\Desktop\Downloads\Google Chrome\Application

right ?

so for solving this issue, your chromdriver.exe needs to know where Google chrome is installed :-

You can try the below code :-

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.binary_location = "/Users/asznee/Desktop/Downloads/Google Chrome/Application/chrome"
chrome_driver_binary = "/Users/asznee/selenium/chromedriver"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_driver_binary, options = options)

answered Jul 24, 2021 at 7:45

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Ethan Ethan Over a year ago

It just gives this error selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: no chrome binary at /Users/asznee/Desktop/Downloads/Google Chrome/Application/chrome

cruisepandey Over a year ago

I am using windows so I have that application folder, Do you happen to have the same structure ? You can change it that to the location of your Google chrome installed directory and try again

Ethan Ethan Over a year ago

My structure is just /Users/asznee/Desktop/Downloads

cruisepandey Over a year ago

Do you see Chrome launcher in Downloads ? Are you sure if there isn't folder ?

Madan reddy · Accepted Answer · 2021-07-24 09:41:23Z

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there is no need to specify the path of the chrome driver just keep the chrome driver in the project just copy and paste in the project

and start initializing the web driver simply start typing with WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(); and enter the URL of the application and follow the code

answered Jul 24, 2021 at 9:41

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Ethan Ethan Over a year ago

What is the chrome driver?

Madan reddy · Accepted Answer · 2021-07-27 07:56:52Z

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WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

WebDriver is having unimplemented methods

here is chrome driver is implementing these unimplemented methods

chrome driver is just the driver which you're telling the selenium to run the test on the chrome browser. you can download it on the

https://chromedriver.chromium.org/home

if you want to work with the firefox browser you use the gecko driver.

answered Jul 27, 2021 at 7:56

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