I'm trying to learn how to automate web processes using Selenium and hopefully be able to build robust web scrapers and stuff. So, I just finished installing Pycharm and Selenium, and I am just trying to run a simple snippet of code that opens a web page in chrome, nothing too fancy. My code is as follows (it's in Python of course)
from selenium import webdriver
PATH = "/Users/Kudzie/Tools/chromedriver"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(PATH)
driver.get('https://orbitrevolution.tech')
So , when I run this code, I get this exception, and I have no idea how to solve this, I've tried reading past variations of this question but i didn't seem to get a solution that works. the exception is as follows
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/Kudzie/PycharmProjects/Web Scraper/main.py", line 5, in <module>
driver = webdriver.Chrome(PATH)
File "/Users/Kudzie/PycharmProjects/Web Scraper/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 76, in __init__
RemoteWebDriver.__init__(
File "/Users/Kudzie/PycharmProjects/Web Scraper/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 157, in __init__
self.start_session(capabilities, browser_profile)
File "/Users/Kudzie/PycharmProjects/Web Scraper/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 252, in start_session
response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters)
File "/Users/Kudzie/PycharmProjects/Web Scraper/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 321, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File "/Users/Kudzie/PycharmProjects/Web Scraper/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: chrome not reachable
Process finished with exit code 1
Try replacing this:
driver = webdriver.Chrome(PATH)
With this:
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=PATH)