Selenium with GhostDriver in Python on Windows

Question

This is embarrassing to ask because it seems like something with so slim chance of error. I wouldn\'t think this would be difficult, but I\'ve been plugging away at this for

Answer 1

This may have been a version issue for you, but since I just went through setting this up on my Windows 7 PC without issues I'm going to share my 'journey' here.

First of, I'm more used to the Mac/Linux Terminal and having the python package manager pip at my disposal is essential to me. After installing Python 2.7.8 and adding ;c:\Python27 to my PATH I noticed that pip isn't included with Python versions lower than 2.7.9, so I had to add it myself. Afterwards I added ;c:\Python27\Scripts to my PATH.

After that fetching the python package selenium was as easy as typing the following into the cmd:

pip install selenium

Then I downloaded the phantomjs-1.9.7-windows.zip from here, unzipped it and placed it here:

C:\Python27\misc\phantomjs-1.9.7-windows\phantomjs.exe

From there I had a working Python 2.7/Selenium Webdriver/PhantomJS example for Windows 7.

from selenium import webdriver
import os

phantomjs_path = "C:\Python27\misc\phantomjs-1.9.7-windows\phantomjs.exe"

browser = webdriver.PhantomJS(executable_path=phantomjs_path, service_log_path=os.path.devnull)
browser.set_window_size(1400, 1000)

browser.get("https://stackoverflow.com/")

print browser.title

Note that I added the argument service_log_path=os.path.devnull to the function webdriver.PhantomJS() to prevent PhantomJS from creating a ghostdriver.log in the directory of the python file being executed.