Can't use chrome driver for Selenium

Question

You should specify the executable file path, not the directory path that contains the executable.

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r"C:\Chrome\chromedriver.exe")

For Linux

1. Check you have installed latest version of chrome browser-> "chromium-browser -version"
2. If not, install latest version of chrome "sudo apt-get install chromium-browser"
3. Get the appropriate version of chrome driver from http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html
4. Unzip the chromedriver.zip
5. Move the file to /usr/bin directory sudo mv chromedriver /usr/bin
6. Goto /usr/bin directory and you would need to run something like "chmod a+x chromedriver" to mark it executable.
7. finally you can execute the code.

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("http://www.google.com")
display.stop()

For windows

Download webdriver from:

http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.9/chromedriver_win32.zip

Paste the chromedriver.exe file in "C:\Python27\Scripts" Folder.

This should work now.

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()

In addition to the selected answer (windows style path):

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r"C:\Chrome\chromedriver.exe")

Note the r in front of the "C:\Chrome\chromedriver.exe", this makes this string a raw string.

In case you do not want to use a raw string you should escape the slash like so \\, this would become:

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:\\Chrome\\chromedriver.exe")

Or you can replace the \ with a /, you will get this:

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="C:/Chrome/chromedriver.exe")

When you call selenium or any testing automation library, you would need to add this the code here is in Python but this can be done in Java and Ruby as well.

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.binary_location = '/usr/bin/chromium-browser'
#All the arguments added for chromium to work on selenium
options.add_argument("--no-sandbox") #This make Chromium reachable
options.add_argument("--no-default-browser-check") #Overrides default choices
options.add_argument("--no-first-run")
options.add_argument("--disable-default-apps") 
driver = webdriver.Chrome('/home/travis/virtualenv/python2.7.9/chromedriver',chrome_options=options)