[FIXED] Unable to use Selenium Webdriver. Getting two exceptions

Issue

Getting the following error when trying to create object with Selenium Webdriver.

"\selenium\webdriver\common\driver_finder.py", line 42, in get_path
    path = SeleniumManager().driver_location(options) if path is None else path

"\selenium\webdriver\common\selenium_manager.py", line 74, in driver_location
    browser = options.capabilities["browserName"]

AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'capabilities'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
"\selenium_webdriver_webscraping.py", line 4, in <module>
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_driver_path)
"\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py", line 47, in __init__
    self.service.path = DriverFinder.get_path(self.service, self.options)
"\selenium\webdriver\common\driver_finder.py", line 44, in get_path
    raise NoSuchDriverException(f"Unable to obtain {service.path} using Selenium Manager; {err}")
selenium.common.exceptions.NoSuchDriverException: Message: Unable to obtain chromedriver using Selenium Manager; 'str' object has no attribute 'capabilities'; For documentation on this error, please visit: https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/webdriver/troubleshooting/errors/driver_location

This is the code I used:

from selenium import webdriver

chrome_driver_path = <chrome drive .exe path>
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_driver_path)

Solution

If the selenium version you are using is v4.6.0 or above (which I think it is as I see SeleniumManger in the error trace), then you don't really have to set the driver.exe path. Selenium can handle the browser and drivers by itself.

So your code can be simplified as below:

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("https://www.google.com/")
driver.quit()

Few references:

• https://stackoverflow.com/a/76455537/7598774
• Introducing Selenium Manager

Answered By - Shawn