selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: connection refused

Question

Here is my code:

from selenium import webdriver

browser = webdriver.Firefox()

browser.get(\'http://www.python.org\')

browser.close()

It

Answer 1

Check your geckodriver.log file (should be in the same directory as python file)

If it says Error: GDK_BACKEND does not match available displays then install pyvirtualdisplay:

pip install pyvirtualdisplay selenium

You might need xvfb too:

sudo apt-get install xvfb # Debian

sudo yum install Xvfb # Fedora

Then try adding this code:

from pyvirtualdisplay import Display
display = Display(visible=0, size=(800, 600))
display.start()

Full example:

from pyvirtualdisplay import Display
from selenium import webdriver

display = Display(visible=0, size=(800, 600))
display.start()

browser = webdriver.Firefox()
browser.get('http://www.python.org')

browser.close()