PhantomJS with Selenium error: Message: 'phantomjs' executable needs to be in PATH

Question

I am attempting to run this script:

https://github.com/Chillee/coursera-dl-all

However, the script fails at the line session = webdriver.PhantomJS() with the following error

Traceback (most recent call last):   File "dl_all.py", line 236, in <module>     session = webdriver.PhantomJS()   File "/home/<user>/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/phantomjs/webdriver.py", line 51, in __init__     self.service.start()   File "/home/<user>/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 69, in start     os.path.basename(self.path), self.start_error_message) selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'phantomjs' executable needs to be in PATH.   Exception AttributeError: "'Service' object has no attribute 'process'" in <bound method Service.__del__ of <selenium.webdriver.phantomjs.service.Service object at 0x7f6f632864d0>> ignored 

How do I add phantomjs to my PATH? I am running ubuntu 16.04 and installed selenium via npm install selenium.

Answer 1

you need to download the DRIVER

after that session = webdriver.PhantomJS("c:\driverPath")

Answer 2

Working Solution:

Assumming you are on windows - it is similar for linux

1) download phantomjs here: http://phantomjs.org/download.html pick windows/linux accordingly

2) unzip your phantomjs-2.1.1-windows.zip and save it to for example c drive such as C:\phantomjs-2.1.1-windows\bin (in here there is a phantomjs.exe that is the execute that your system needs)

3) On Windows10 edit your environment path to include this bin folder C:\phantomjs-2.1.1-windows\bin such as this example

4) you may or may not restart your machine. Done! it should work! (Webdriver looks for phantomjs.exe and it should be ready now)