how to install geckodriver on a windows system

Question

I am trying to intall webdriver and in order to open firefox i need the geckodriver to be installed and in the correct path.

Firstly the download link to install geckodriver only allows you to install a file that is not an executable. So is there a way to make it an executable?

secondly I have tried to change my path variables in commmand prompt, but of course it didn't work. I then changed the user variable not the system path variables because there is not Path in system. there is a Path in user variables so I edited that to change where the file is located.

I have extracted the geckodriver rar file and have received a file with no extension. I don't know how you can have a file with no extension, but they did it. The icon is like a blank sheet of paper with a fold at the top left.

If anyone has a solution for this including maybe another package that is like webdriver and will allow me to open a browser and then refresh the page after a given amount of time. this is all I want to do.

Answer 1

First download GeckoDriver for Windows, extract it and copy the path to the folder.

• Right-click on My Computer or This PC.
• Select Properties.
• Select advanced system settings.
• Click on the Environment Variables button.
• From System Variables select PATH.
• Click on Edit button.
• Click New button.
• Paste the path of GeckoDriver file.

Answer 2

You can put it anywhere. 1. put it into your project folder. 2. create a folder and put driver into it. Set the driver path up in your code.

  from selenium import webdriver
  path="C:\\Programs\\Python36\\BrowersDriver\\chromedriver.exe"
  driver=webdriver.Chrome(path)
  driver.get("http://www.yahoo.com")
  driver.close()
  driver.quit()

http://kennethhutw.blogspot.sg/2017/03/how-to-install-geckodriver-on-windows.html