No such file or directory: 'geckodriver' for a simple Selenium application in Python
PythonSeleniumPython Problem Overview
I'm running a simple example of selenium on Linux:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("something")
and get an error:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'geckodriver'
How to fix it?
$ python
Python 3.5.2 (default, Jun 28 2016, 08:46:01)
[GCC 6.1.1 20160602] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import selenium
>>> from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
>>>
Python Solutions
Solution 1 - Python
Downloading geckodriver
The geckodriver executable can be downloaded here.
Python3 venv
Download the geckodriver executable from the above link and extract it to env/bin/ to make it accessible to only the virtual environment.
In your python code, you will now be able to do the following:
from selenium import webdriver
browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get("https://stackoverflow.com/")
Linux
If you would like to make it available system wide, download the geckodriver executable from the above link and extract it to /usr/bin/ (or anything inside of your $PATH)
Windows
Note: this needs a windows user to test and confirm
Download geckodriver from the above link and extract it to C:\Windows\System32\ (or anything inside your Path environment variable).
Mac OS X
Note: I took this from Vincent van Leeuwen's answer in this very question. Putting it here for the sake of lumping everything in one answer
To make geckodriver available system wide, open up your Terminal App and perform the following command:
brew install geckodriver
More Info
More info on selenium can be found here:
> Selenium requires a driver to interface with the chosen browser. Firefox, for example, requires geckodriver, which needs to be installed before the below examples can be run. Make sure it's in your PATH, e. g., place it in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin. > > Failure to observe this step will give you an error selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'geckodriver' executable needs to be in PATH.
Solution 2 - Python
I faced same issue in Linux. I used below steps to fix that Error.
cd /bin
# Check on https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases for the latest release
wget https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.24.0/geckodriver-v0.24.0-linux32.tar.gz
tar -xvzf geckodriver-v0.24.0-linux32.tar.gz
rm geckodriver-v0.24.0-linux32.tar.gz
chmod +x geckodriver
export PATH=$PATH:/bin/geckodriver
geckodriver --version
Note : I tried with latest version geckodriver-v0.26.0 but it not working for me, That's Why I installed the old version v0.24.0
Solution 3 - Python
Linux: You can install "sudo apt install firefox-geckodriver"
Solution 4 - Python
Selenium requires geckodriver to interface with Firefox. Here's how to install geckodriver:
- Download geckodriver from https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.24.0/geckodriver-v0.24.0-linux64.tar.gz (or if you need the 32 bit version, go to https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases to see more download options)
- Extract the file into your Downloads folder
- Open a console and run
sudo mv ~/Downloads/geckodriver /usr/bin
Solution 5 - Python
Mac OSX:
Firefox?
brew install geckodriver
Chrome?
brew install chromedriver
Solution 6 - Python
Here is the correct way:
sudo apt install firefox-geckodriver
You do not need manual installations.
Solution 7 - Python
On linux, you can install Homebrew and then brew install geckodriver through it
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Linuxbrew/install/master/install.sh)"
brew install geckodriver
or by installing Nix
curl https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh
nix install geckodriver
but adding another package manager to your system might be a bad idea.
Solution 8 - Python
Mac OSX:
Firefox?
brew install geckodriver
Chrome?
brew install chromedriver
Choose one:
driver = webdriver.Firefox() # brew install geckodriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome() # brew install chromedriver
Solution 9 - Python
There is a python package that autoinstalls it crossplattform, no need for users to manually install it: https://pypi.org/project/geckodriver-autoinstaller/