Issue opening a webpage with Chrome using 'webbrowser'

Question

My default web browser is Firefox. When I run this code:

import webbrowser
webbrowser.open("https://google.com")

Firefox shows up and opens the specified url page.

But I want to open the page with Chrome. So I tried:

chrome_path = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"
webbrowser.get(chrome_path).open("https://google.com")

Then I get Error: could not locate runnable browser message.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You need to use the chrome driver to run it. You can download ChromeDriver here: https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloads

Then you have multiple options:

• add it to your system path

• put it in the same directory as your python script

• specify the location directly via executable_path

   driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='C:/path/to/chromedriver.exe')
  

Upd: To handle it you can go it:

in cmd line

pip install webdriver-manager

and in python

from selenium import webdriver

from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager

driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())