Cannot use selenium web driver because phantomjs is not in path

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Cannot use selenium web driver because phantomjs is not in path

Hi! I'm trying to use selenium on my code but i cannot because phantomjs is not in path.

Here is my log:

/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/phantomjs/webdriver.py:49: UserWarning: Selenium support for PhantomJS has been deprecated, please use headless versions of Chrome or Firefox instead
  warnings.warn('Selenium support for PhantomJS has been deprecated, please use headless '
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 72, in start
    self.process = subprocess.Popen(cmd, env=self.env,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 854, in __init__
    self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 1702, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'phantomjs'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "animeflv.py", line 257, in <module>
    print(json.dumps(get_anime_data('https://www3.animeflv.net/anime/majutsushi-orphen-hagure-tabi-kimluckhen'), indent=4))
  File "animeflv.py", line 154, in get_anime_data
    driver = webdriver.PhantomJS()
  File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/phantomjs/webdriver.py", line 56, in __init__
    self.service.start()
  File "/opt/virtualenvs/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 81, in start
    raise WebDriverException(
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'phantomjs' executable needs to be in PATH.

Basically, phantomjs is not in path. How can I fix it?

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However, you can use webbot, which uses selenium, weird right?

import webbot
web = webbot.Browser()
web.go_to('https://repl.it/')

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selenium must be using phantomjs which is apparantly a different lib. Try installing it with

npm i phantomjs

something like that, or maybe it just doesn't work.

did you install it?

pip install PACKAGE

if that doesn't work, then it's probably not available in repl.it

@RYANTADIPARTHI its already installed. Its like one of those packages that already comes with python

@Necrodragon41 maybe it's not available on repl.it

@RYANTADIPARTHI Its available on replit, I have searched

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can I see your code to see what's the problem?

@XThacker

driver = webdriver.PhantomJS()
html = driver.get(link)
soup = bs.BeautifulSoup(html, 'lxml')

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@Necrodragon41 did you install selenium

@XThacker yeah. Its already installed. Notice that the exception is from selenium

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@Necrodragon41 then...I dunno :(

@XThacker basically i need to add phantomjs to path
'phantomjs' executable needs to be in PATH.
Do you know how can I do that?

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@Necrodragon41