PhantomJS with Selenium error: Message: 'phantomjs' executable needs to be in PATH

Question

I am attempting to run this script:

https://github.com/Chillee/coursera-dl-all

However, the script fails at the line session = webdriver.PhantomJS()

Answer 1

Working Solution:

Assumming you are on windows - it is similar for linux

1) download phantomjs here: http://phantomjs.org/download.html pick windows/linux accordingly

2) unzip your phantomjs-2.1.1-windows.zip and save it to for example c drive such as C:\phantomjs-2.1.1-windows\bin (in here there is a phantomjs.exe that is the execute that your system needs)

3) On Windows10 edit your environment path to include this bin folder C:\phantomjs-2.1.1-windows\bin such as this example

4) you may or may not restart your machine. Done! it should work! (Webdriver looks for phantomjs.exe and it should be ready now)