Anaconda selenium and Chrome

Question

I am running selenium through anaconda on my mac. To be able to choose Chrome as my webdriver I need to download the latest chromedriver. But I can't figure out where to put the file for it to be in path. If I just run

driver = webdriver.Chrome()

WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: cannot find Chrome binary

Should I put chromedriver in anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/ and if so how do I specify selenium to use it?

I know it has to be something simple, since I have already set up chromedriver on my other computer like a year ago, but I don't have access to it right now.

EDIT: tried this

import os
from selenium import webdriver

chromedriver = "/Users/username/Downloads/chromedriver"
os.environ["webdriver.chrome.driver"] = chromedriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chromedriver)
driver.get("http://stackoverflow.com")
driver.quit()

Got this error:

WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: cannot find Chrome binary
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.23.409710 (0c4084804897ac45b5ff65a690ec6583b97225c0),platform=Mac OS X 10.11.6 x86_64)

Answer 1

The simplest solution is to install chromedriver as suggested by @bgodr:

conda install -c conda-forge python-chromedriver-binary

Then at the top of your code, add the following import statement to update your PATH variable appropriately:

import chromedriver_binary

Answer 2

The easiest would be to install chrome-driver via anaconda (especially when running on a machine where you don't have permissions to install chrome-driver from .deb package)

conda install -c conda-forge python-chromedriver-binary 

(updated based on comment from bgoodr (https://stackoverflow.com/users/257924/bgoodr) - please vote his comment below ).

Answer 3

1. Download latest chromedriver
2. Update Chrome itself
3. In your code

from selenium import webdriver driver_path = '/path to chromedriver.exe/' driver = webdriver.Chrome(driver_path) driver.get('somewebsite')