Selenium on MAC, Message: 'chromedriver' executable may have wrong permissions

Question

I\'m just trying to do something very basic on my Mac using selenium and I can\'t even open a webpage. I\'m getting an error of :

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Answer 1

The error says it all :

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable may have wrong permissions. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home

The error clearly mentions that the chromedriver which is getting detected have wrong permissions.

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Solution

• Download the latest chromedriver binary from ChromeDriver - WebDriver for Chrome and save it in your system.
• Ensure that chromedriver binary have the required permissions.

• While initiating the WebDriver and WebClient pass the argument executable_path along with the absolute path of the chromedriver binary as follows :

  from selenium import webdriver
  
  link = "https://accounts.google.com"
  driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='/path/to/chromedriver')
  driver.get(link)
  

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Reference

You can find a detailed relevant discussion in:

• 'Webdrivers' executable may have wrong permissions. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home