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Where to place PhantomJS executable for Python Selenium Webdriver to work?

I am on a mac and I am trying to use selenium with phantomjs. I have downloaded the phantomjs executable for mac from their website, and I don't know where to place it for selenium to use it. I am using Visual Studio Code, a Mac and python 3.7. Thanks

Solution

  • Place it anywhere! Yes anywhere. Even i place it in a separate folder named setups where i store all webdrivers including PhantomJS.exe also. It works well. No errors.

    Just add it to the path in the code itself :

    driver = webdriver.PhantomJS(executable_path=r"C:\Users\intel\Downloads\setups\PhantomJS.exe")

    Either use PhantomJS.exe after the path name just like i did it above or use PhantomJS only.

    Edit : PhantomJS support has been ended recently because it's too old, and is no longer maintaining. The message you are getting is not an error, it's a warning. I prefer you using chrome browser here.

    You can even make chrome browser headless just like PhantomJS. To do that :

    from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

options = Options()
options.add_argument("--headless")

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r"C:\Users\intel\Downloads\setups\chromedriver.exe", options=options)

    Also don't forget to use options=options in the end of the path just like i did.