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Geckodriver error

Open PropovedNik007 opened this issue 3 years ago • 0 comments

Message: 'geckodriver' executable needs to be in PATH. Made all steps from the instruction and tryed to configure path source, same error

Workspace in use: "/home/arterra/InstaPy"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/arterra/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 71, in start
    self.process = subprocess.Popen(cmd, env=self.env,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 951, in __init__
    self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 1823, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'geckodriver'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/arterra/insta.py", line 54, in <module>
    session = InstaPy(username=insta_username,
  File "/home/arterra/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/instapy/instapy.py", line 330, in __init__
    self.browser, err_msg = set_selenium_local_session(
  File "/home/arterra/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/instapy/browser.py", line 123, in set_selenium_local_session
    browser = webdriver.Firefox(
  File "/home/arterra/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 174, in __init__
    self.service.start()
  File "/home/arterra/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 81, in start
    raise WebDriverException(
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'geckodriver' executable needs to be in PATH. 

PropovedNik007 avatar Feb 14 '22 22:02 PropovedNik007