PhantomJS was placed in path and can execute in terminal, but PATH error in Python

Question

note: PhantomJS runs in PyCharm environment, but not IDLE

I have successfully used PhantomJS in Python in the past, but I do not know what to do to revert to that set up.

I am receiving this error in Python (2.7.11): selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'phantomjs' executable needs to be in PATH.

I have tried to 'symlink' phantomjs to the path (usr/local/bin [which is also in the path]), and even manually locate /usr/local/bin to place phantomjs in the bin folder. However, there is still a path error in python.

What am I missing?

Answer 1

I solved this by passing the executable_path keyword arg to the driver constructor. For example:

driver = webdriver.PhantomJS(executable_path="/Path/to/driver/phantomjs")

Note that this must be the driver file itself, not the folder which contains it.

Thanks to PhantomJS() not running in pyCharm for hinting at this solution.

Answer 2

Download - http://phantomjs.org/download.html

/usr/bin is restricted on Mac, but putting /bin/phantomjs in /usr/local/bin works