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selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchDriverException: Message: Unable to obtain chromedriver using Selenium Manager error using Selenium and ChromeDriver

I can't figure out why my code it's always getting an error

This is my code:

from selenium import webdriver

url = "https://google.com/"
path = "C:/Users/thefo/OneDrive/Desktop/summer 2023/chromedriver_win32"

driver = webdriver.Chrome(path)
driver.get(url)

Path of chromedriver:

path from chromedriver

and this is the error that always appears:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\thefo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\driver_finder.py", line 42, in get_path
    path = SeleniumManager().driver_location(options) if path is None else path
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\thefo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\selenium_manager.py", line 74, in driver_location
    browser = options.capabilities["browserName"]
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'capabilities'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\Users\thefo\OneDrive\Desktop\summer 2023\Projeto Bot Discord - BUFF SELL CHECKER\teste2.py", line 6, in <module>
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(path)
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\thefo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py", line 47, in __init__
    self.service.path = DriverFinder.get_path(self.service, self.options)
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\thefo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\driver_finder.py", line 44, in get_path
    raise NoSuchDriverException(f"Unable to obtain {service.path} using Selenium Manager; {err}")
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchDriverException: Message: Unable to obtain chromedriver using Selenium Manager; 'str' object has no attribute 'capabilities'; For documentation on this error, please visit: https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/webdriver/troubleshooting/errors/driver_location
Solution

  • This error message...

    Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\thefo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\driver_finder.py", line 42, in get_path
    path = SeleniumManager().driver_location(options) if path is None else path
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    ...implies that the version of Selenium which you are using is v4.6 or above.

    Selenium Manager

    In such cases Selenium Manager can silently download the matching ChromeDriver and you don't have to explicitly mention the chromedriver path anymore.

    Solution

    Your minimal code block can be:

    from selenium import webdriver

url = "https://google.com/"
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get(url)