Chromedriver.exe

Another way is download and unzip chromedriver and put 'chromedriver.exe' in C:\Program Files\Python38\Scripts and then you need not to provide the path of driver, just

chromedriver.exe

If you are working with robot framework RIDE. Then you can download Chromedriver.exe from its official website and keep this .exe file in C:\Python27\Scripts directory. Now mention this path as your environment variable eg. C:\Python27\Scripts\chromedriver.exe.

In your case, after your test completes, there should be a chromedriver.exe in your Task Manager which does not quit until you manually "End Process" it. However, if you use IWebDriver.Dispose(), it kills the process. And now, since the chromedriver.exe is no longer in use, the "Access denied" problem also goes away.

First end the process of chromedriver.exe from Task Manger, then Delete the chromedriver.exe from your project bin file and check whether Selenium.WebDriver.ChromeDriver package installed or not, If it's not installed you should installSelenium.WebDriver.ChromeDriver package from "NuGet Package Manager"..and rebuild , otherwise rebuild the project directly...

I tried the command taskkill /f /im chromedriver.exe on the command line and my test ran smoothly. But I needed a way to run this every time before a test run via Visual Studio. So I put it in Project > Properties > Build Events > Pre-build.When I ran the test, I got an error:

I set up a python code to run Selenium chromedriver.exe. At the end of the run I have browser.close() to close the instance. (browser = webdriver.Chrome()) I believe it should release chromedriver.exe from memory (I'm on Windows 7). However after each run there is one chromedriver.exe instance remain in the memory. I hope there is a way I can write something in python to kill the chromedriver.exe process. Obviously browser.close() doesn't do the work. Thanks.

However: At my workplace, we've noticed a huge problem when trying to execute chromedriver tests in the Java platform, where the chromedriver.exe actually still exists even after using browser.quit(). To counter this, we created a batch file similar to this one below, that just forces closed the processes.

Since chromedriver.exe is not a huge program and does not consume much memory, you shouldn't have to run this every time, but only when it presents a problem. For example when running Project->Clean in Eclipse.

However, in my case I was not able to do that - since I running multiple tests in parallel, I didn't wanted to one test to close windows to others. Therefore, when my tests finish running, there are still many "chromedriver.exe" processes left running.

An IllegalStateException is thrown while working with Chrome browser if the chromedriver.exe file path is set incorrectly in the method System.setProperty. Once this executable file is downloaded, it has to be extracted. Then its path should be copied and added as a parameter to the System.setProperty method.

Also, it must be remembered that, for Windows, we have to specify the .exe extension while including the path. But it is not required for Mac or Ubuntu. We should also ensure that the chromedriver.exe file that we are using is compatible with the local Chrome browser version.

I know that Selenium Webdriver is evolved from Selenium RC. Server in the Selenium RC was used to overcome the "same origin policy" using the proxy injection. Is it that the chromedriver.exe performs same functions?I tried find the answers online could not get any satisfactory explaination.Thanks in advance.

@Igor Lopatchin (293174 IT) , I would check the relative path being loaded by your app when it tries to access chromedriver.exe. You can also try copying the exe to wwwroot/app_data/jobs per -files-directly-in-their-proper-location. If that doesn't work, try copying to the working directory.

I wanna make an automated Selenium web scraping program and then push a notification to my Telegram bot weekly, but how can I link the path of "chromedriver.exe" that I've already uploaded on my Pythonanywhere account? And also I can't run it headerless because the website will reject the connection if without the header. Any solution, thanks in advance.

The .exe extension on a filename indicates an executable file. Executable files may, in some cases, harm your computer. Therefore, please read below to decide for yourself whether the chromedriver.exe on your computer is a Trojan that you should remove, or whether it is a file belonging to the Windows operating system or to a trusted application.

If chromedriver.exe is located in a subfolder of "C:\Program Files", the security rating is 45% dangerous. The file size is 6,403,584 bytes (50% of all occurrences) or 6,931,456 bytes.It is not a Windows core file. There is no file information.

Important: Some malware camouflages itself as chromedriver.exe. Therefore, you should check the chromedriver.exe process on your PC to see if it is a threat. We recommend Security Task Manager for verifying your computer's security. This was one of the Top Download Picks of The Washington Post and PC World.

To help you analyze the chromedriver.exe process on your computer, the following programs have proven to be helpful: ASecurity Task Manager displays all running Windows tasks, including embedded hidden processes, such as keyboard and browser monitoring or Autostart entries. A unique security risk rating indicates the likelihood of the process being potential spyware, malware or a Trojan. BMalwarebytes Anti-Malware detects and removes sleeping spyware, adware, Trojans, keyloggers, malware and trackers from your hard drive.

Our IT department has recently enabled a strict application control, meaning that the execution of the chromedriver.exe is prevented. IT said they could help, but only if the chromedriver.exe gets a digital signature, making sure it is genuine and not altered with malicious code.

Note: You could also create an environment variable named webdriver.chrome.driver on your machine. That value is the path to where the local chromedriver.exe is located. If you set up a webdriver.chrome.driver variable, you would not have to pass the chrome driver argument when you create a ChromeDriver instance.

So if you want to execute Selenium WebDriver automation scripts on the Chrome browser, then you need first to download chromedriver.exe and then use the System.setProperty method to set its path as follows: 041b061a72