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Trying to use Selenium with Chrome in a python script.

I get the following error:

WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home

I know the location of the chromedriver executable. How do I add it to the PATH?

thank you

user7188934
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    Possible duplicate of [Error message: "'chromedriver' executable needs to be available in the path"](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29858752/error-message-chromedriver-executable-needs-to-be-available-in-the-path) – JeffC Jan 11 '18 at 19:38

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You can specify the absolute path to your chrome driver in your script as such:

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='/path/to/driver/chromedriver')

Or you can add the path to your webdriver in the PATH system variable as so:

export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/driver/chrome-driver

You may add the above line to your /home/<user>/.profile file to make it permanent.

Tested on Ubuntu 17.10 running Python 2.7.14

Hope this helps!

AnythingIsFine
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The solution posted by @AnythingIsFine is indeed correct.

However in my case my pytest was still unable to find the chromedriver (despite it was correctly added to the PATH and from the terminal I could execute it).

So I've solved by adding an alias of the chromedriver in the /usr/bin directory:

sudo ln -s /path/to/chromedriver /usr/bin
Francesco Borzi
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Move Chromedriver to path with:

sudo mv -f ~/chromedriver /usr/local/bin/chromedriver

/usr/local/bin/chromedriver is path.

Doan Bui
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