Error: The ChromeDriver could not be found ...

I also added

npm install chromedriver

and then ran the following:

const selenium = require('selenium-webdriver');

require('chromedriver');

const driver = new selenium.Builder().forBrowser("chrome").build();

driver.get('https://TheURLThatYouNeed');

Hey there guys, for those who have been frustrated ( as much as I was ) with endless unsuccessful attempts of installation of Chromedriver via NPM there's an alternative solution: try to install it via Homebrew.

Here's the command: brew cask install chromedriver

Should this still be categorised as Quality Assurance?

[EDIT]This solution worked once and then failed. I have the PATH to the correct folder in my environment variables but the problem still persists:

[/EDIT]

Anyway, I added the path to the directory we created to my PATH. In Windows 10, open File Explorer and right click 'This PC' and select 'Properties'. In there, on the right of the window, click 'Advanced System Settings' and this opens a smaller window. At the bottom of that, there's a button for ';Environment Variables'. Open that up.

You get a window with 'User variables for <username>' at the top. In that list, highlight "Path" and click 'Edit...'. This will give you a list of paths to various apps. Click "New".

Open up the 'selenium-basics' (or whatever you called it) that you created at the start of this video in File Explorer. Click to the right of the folder name in the explorer bar at the top. This will highlight the whole path. Press Ctrl+C to copy it.

Go back to the 'Edit environment variable' window and paste (Ctrl+V) the path you copied into the new entry. Click OK - and you're done!

Steve.

Hi, fellows.

I would like to ask, have any of you got this error, "AvgMessageDispatcherClientLite::Initialize Get private logger failed: 0xe001003d", after executing the script 'require("chromedriver");'? I am asking because I also get the error 'The ChromeDriver could not be found' and executing the script does the trick, however, I'd get this error in a few minutes and it would then abort the node repl.

Appreciate your reply.

Thanks!

Hi, Jonathan.

Thanks for your prompt reply. :) I actually did, several times in fact. I thought at first it was because I was into deep a directory so then I tried re-installing it just like in the video. But then I'd get the same issue. :( I was about to update my original question because I am also getting this error '[16352:14408:0921/031403.082:ERROR:ssl_client_socket_impl.cc(1129)] handshake failed; returned -1, SSL error code 1, net_error -100' so I'm not sure if it's with the Selenium installation or if it's a problem with my machine.

When you are adding new PATH in your environment - you should restart your OS. And only after this step it will be avaliable under node. Its related to instruction of "Steve Hunter on Sep 14"

Hello all,

I'm getting the same error mentioned at the top of this thread (on Windows 7).

I've attempted using andren, steve's environment variable solution and Jonathan Grieve's option.

Would my problem be something more simple potentially? Should chromedriver be in the AppData folder?

After I've installed chromedriver and use where on the cmd, it displays the following:

C:\Users\Betty\selenium-basics>where chromedriver C:\Users\Betty\AppData\Roaming\npm\chromedriver C:\Users\Betty\AppData\Roaming\npm\chromedriver.cmd

Heres a full log of what I've completed so far:

C:\Users\Betty\selenium-basics>npm install chromedriver -g C:\Users\Betty\AppData\Roaming\npm\chromedriver -> C:\Users\Betty\AppData\Roamin g\npm\node_modules\chromedriver\bin\chromedriver

chromedriver@2.33.2 install C:\Users\Betty\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\ch romedriver node install.js

Downloading https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.33/chromedriver_win32. zip Saving to C:\Users\Betty\AppData\Local\Temp\chromedriver\chromedriver_win32.zip Received 781K... Received 1568K... Received 2352K... Received 3136K... Received 3920K... Received 4125K total. Extracting zip contents Copying to target path C:\Users\Betty\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\chromedri ver\lib\chromedriver Done. ChromeDriver binary available at C:\Users\Betty\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_m odules\chromedriver\lib\chromedriver\chromedriver.exe C:\Users\Betty\AppData\Roaming\npm `-- chromedriver@2.33.2

C:\Users\Betty\selenium-basics>chromedriver --version ChromeDriver 2.33.506120 (e3e53437346286c0bc2d2dc9aa4915ba81d9023f)

C:\Users\Betty\selenium-basics>where chromedriver C:\Users\Betty\AppData\Roaming\npm\chromedriver C:\Users\Betty\AppData\Roaming\npm\chromedriver.cmd

C:\Users\Betty\selenium-basics>node

const selenium = require("selenium-webdriver"); undefined const driver = new selenium.Builder().forBrowser("chrome").build(); Error: The ChromeDriver could not be found on the current PATH. Please download the latest version of the ChromeDriver from http://chromedriver.storage.googleap is.com/index.html and ensure it can be found on your PATH. at Error (native) at ServiceBuilder (C:\Users\Betty\selenium-basics\node_modules\selenium-webd river\chrome.js:215:13) at getDefaultService (C:\Users\Betty\selenium-basics\node_modules\selenium-w ebdriver\chrome.js:304:22) at Function.createSession (C:\Users\Betty\selenium-basics\node_modules\selen ium-webdriver\chrome.js:752:44) at createDriver (C:\Users\Betty\selenium-basics\node_modules\selenium-webdri ver\index.js:170:33) at Builder.build (C:\Users\Betty\selenium-basics\node_modules\selenium-webdr iver\index.js:642:16) at repl:1:60 at sigintHandlersWrap (vm.js:22:35) at sigintHandlersWrap (vm.js:73:12) at ContextifyScript.Script.runInThisContext (vm.js:21:12)

Thanks for the reply, Jonathan. I am. So far, I had not seen the same scenario. Just the same error, different scenario. :(