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

This could be for various reasons.

• Most probably because the "latest" version of your geckodriver is not able to communicate with your "slightly older" firefox.

• The easiest way to fix this would be to try out different older versions of geckodriver. Run the following command to find the current version of your geckodriver

  geckodriver --version
  

• If it shows the version as 19 or above, execute following steps to use geckodriver version 17(Works 90% of times)

• 1. Your existing geckodriver most typically may be placed in /usr/local/bin when u installed it earlier. First delete this by running sudo rm -r /usr/local/bin/geckodriver

  2. Download version 17 of geckodriver from this link. Move the downloaded file(geckodriver-v0.17.0-arm7hf.tar.gz) from your Downloads folder into your home directory

  3. Unpack the file

     tar -xzvf geckodriver-v0.17.0-arm7hf.tar.gz
     

     This will create a folder called "geckodriver" in your home directory

  4. Move/Copy this extracted "geckodriver" into /usr/local/bin/

     sudo cp geckodriver /usr/local/bin/
     

  5. Run

     sudo reboot
     

Rerun your program now...
It should work!