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Quality Assurance Introduction to Selenium Test Drive Selenium Installation

Erick Luna
Erick Luna
20,282 Points
Posted by Erick Luna
Erick Luna
20,282 Points

I'm getting this message while using the build pattern "The ChromeDriver could not be found on the current PATH"

The full error message is: " The ChromeDriver could not be found on the current PATH. Please download the latest version of t he ChromeDriver from http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html and ensure it can be found o n your PATH."

Tzvetan Petrov
Tzvetan Petrov
1,242 Points
Tzvetan Petrov
Tzvetan Petrov
1,242 Points

Same problem - I have followed the steps 1 by 1 -

C:\Users\Kasapcho\selenium-basics>npm install chromedriver -g C:\Users\Kasapcho\AppData\Roaming\npm\chromedriver -> C:\Users\Kasapcho\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\chromedriver\bin\chromedriver

chromedriver@83.0.0 install C:\Users\Kasapcho\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\chromedriver node install.js

Current existing ChromeDriver binary is unavailable, proceeding with download and extraction. Downloading from file: https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/83.0.4103.39/chromedriver_win32.zip Saving to file: C:\Users\Kasapcho\AppData\Local\Temp\83.0.4103.39\chromedriver\chromedriver_win32.zip Received 1040K... Received 2080K... Received 3120K... Received 4160K... Received 4649K total. Extracting zip contents to C:\Users\Kasapcho\AppData\Local\Temp\83.0.4103.39\chromedriver. Copying to target path C:\Users\Kasapcho\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\chromedriver\lib\chromedriver Done. ChromeDriver binary available at C:\Users\Kasapcho\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\chromedriver\lib\chromedriver\chromedriver.exe

C:\Users\Kasapcho\selenium-basics>chromedriver --version ChromeDriver 83.0.4103.39 (ccbf011cb2d2b19b506d844400483861342c20cd-refs/branch-heads/4103@{#416})

C:\Users\Kasapcho\selenium-basics>

C:\Users\Kasapcho\selenium-basics>

C:\Users\Kasapcho\selenium-basics>node Welcome to Node.js v12.18.0. Type ".help" for more information.

const selenium = require ("selenium-webdriver"); undefined const driver = new selenium.Builder().forBrowser ("chrome").build(); Uncaught: Error: The ChromeDriver could not be found on the current PATH. Please download the latest version of the ChromeDriver from http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html and ensure it can be found on your PATH. at new ServiceBuilder (C:\Users\Kasapcho\selenium-basics\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\chrome.js:173:13) at Function.getDefaultService (C:\Users\Kasapcho\selenium-basics\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\chrome.js:212:22) at Function.createSession (C:\Users\Kasapcho\selenium-basics\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\chromium.js:582:49) at Function.createSession (C:\Users\Kasapcho\selenium-basics\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\chrome.js:289:41) at createDriver (C:\Users\Kasapcho\selenium-basics\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\index.js:155:33) at Builder.build (C:\Users\Kasapcho\selenium-basics\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\index.js:662:16) const driver = new selenium.Builder().forBrowser ("chrome").build(); and getting the same error when I begin to write the script following the video

using win10 btw ....

3 Answers

Sarper Temel
Sarper Temel
430 Points
Sarper Temel
Sarper Temel
430 Points

I exactly have the same problem and still looking for the solutions.

Avery Miller
Avery Miller
2,568 Points
Avery Miller
Avery Miller
2,568 Points

I found that I had to import two additional things to get it to run ( credit to this stack overflow answer).

const webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver');

// add these two imports, and the line after that
const chrome = require('selenium-webdriver/chrome');
const chromedriver = require('chromedriver');

// I needed this the first time around, but then I didn't after, so not sure on this
// chrome.setDefaultService(new chrome.ServiceBuilder(chromedriver.path).build());

// NOW I can do this line!
const driver = new selenium.Builder().forBrowser('chrome').build();

Afterwards, I get a message about "a device attach to the system is not functioning" and something with my USB settings, but I think that's just my system thing, and so far it hasn't actually impacted what I'm doing! 😀 Hope this helps!

I previously tried installing it to the project directly. I also tried using a different shell, just in case. I use Git Bash, but I tried in powershell or in the command prompt, all gave the current PATH error message.

Sarper Temel
Sarper Temel
430 Points
Sarper Temel
Sarper Temel
430 Points

Hey mate, thank you for the help. Actually I found the solution and as I can see we thought about the same thing. So my solution is more simple and only 1 line code you need to write.

So my solution is, I added / require('chromedriver'); / this line before I define the driver and build it which is ( const driver = new selenium.Builder().forBrowser("chrome").build(); )

Hope that helps!