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setting os.environ in selenium4


I am a beginner in programming, and in selenium as well. Therefore, I am seeking for your help in fixing the code to set os.environ in selenium4 as below.

  service = ChromeService(executable_path="D:\\port\\driver\\chromedriver")
  os.environ["wedriver.chrome.driver"] = service  
  driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service) 
  driver.get(https://gisgeography.com/free-satellite-imagery-data-list/')
  driver.maximize_window()

Solution

  • You will not need to use an environment variable for this.

    from selenium import webdriver
    from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
    
    s=Service('D:\\port\\driver\\chromedriver')
    browser = webdriver.Chrome(service=s)
    url='https://www.google.com'
    browser.get(url)
    

    however if you need to set ot read environment variables using python below is an example

    import os
    from selenium import webdriver
    from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
    # Setting an environment variable
    os.environ["CHROME_DRIVER_PATH"] = "D:\\port\\driver\\chromedriver"
    # Reading an environment variable
    DRIVER_PATH = os.environ.get('CHROME_DRIVER_PATH')
    s=Service(DRIVER_PATH)
    browser = webdriver.Chrome(service=s)
    url='https://www.google.com'
    browser.get(url)