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I'm trying to connect a chromedriver to python but I need to add it to PATH. Is there any way I could do this?

Answered by Scoder12 (839) [earned 5 cycles]

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You can't use .exe files on repl.it because repl.it uses linux (technically you can but its a lot easier to just use the linux version). You can use this code instead of your driver line:

import os
import stat
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options


st = os.stat('chromedriver')
os.chmod('chromedriver', st.st_mode | stat.S_IEXEC)
chrome_options = Options()
chrome_options.add_argument("--no-sandbox")
driver = webdriver.Chrome('./chromedriver', options=chrome_options)

You also have the wrong chromedriver binary. If you open a shell with ctrl+shift+s in the repl, you can see

$ chromium-browser --version
Chromium 81.0.4044.138 Built on Ubuntu , running on Ubuntu 18.04

And your chromedriver binary only supports version 83:

$ chmod +x ./chromedriver && ./chromedriver
Starting ChromeDriver 83.0.4103.39 (ccbf011cb2d2b19b506d844400483861342c20cd-refs/branch-heads/[email protected]{#416}) on port 9515

You can download the correct binary from here or from my repl.

Please mark this as the answer if it helped you.

@Scoder12 Thank you! This worked!

Hey! It looks like the error message is being confusing, the actual issue is that the path to chromedriver that you specified (./chromedriver.exe) doesn't exist. If you look, the actual file doesn't have the .exe extension, so you need to remove that. Repl.it runs linux and not windows so executables have a different format and no extension by convention.

Also, chromedriver has to be marked as an executable. Do ctrl-shift-p and type "Open Shell" and then run chmod +x ./chromedriver and everything should work! Pretty sure you still have some other errors.

@Kognise I tried running chmod +x ./chromedriver. Nothing got printed into the shell but when I ran the file again, the error saying that

(The process started from chrome location /usr/bin/chromium-browser is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)

@Kognise It may have been because I had the wrong chromedriver version?