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Unable to start Selenium Safari WebDriver via python3

I want to use Safari as the browser from python, and the code is fairly easy:

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Safari()
url = 'https://www.gmail.com/'
driver.get(url)

I am using the latest version of Safari, 11.0.3,

In preferences-extension, I have WebDriver installed,

In develop on menu, I have "allow Remote Automation" enabled.

I'm using python 3.5, selenium 3.10.0

While running the code above, I got the following Error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/hwang/Documents/Lumi_personal/Coding/sandbox/testSelenium.py", line 2, in <module>
driver = webdriver.Safari()

File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/safari/webdriver.py", line 49, in __init__
self.service.start()

AttributeError: 'WebDriver' object has no attribute 'service'

Any help is appreciated! Thanks in advance!

Solution

  • I had the same issue with selenium 3.10, but not with 3.9.

    Apparently, there's a bug in version 3.10 according to: https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/5578

    My temporary solution is to uninstall selenium 3.10, and install 3.9:

    pip uninstall selenium
pip install selenium==3.9

    And it should solve the problem.