'Webdrivers' executable may have wrong permissions. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home

I've looked around checked both documentations and have found no answer.

I've been trying to use InstaPy a instagram api for python. After failing with multiple errors and assuming InstaPy is just having some issues so i tried to raw code it using selinium. after inserting the example code and alter it to my liking i just made sure this one would work. I received a new error instead of the old one saying the permissions may not be right. I have tried reinstall and running as admin but nothing works. how do i fix this and/or what does this mean

Code:

import time
from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Chrome('C:Webdrivers') # Optional argument, if not specified will search path.
driver.get('http://www.google.com/xhtml');
time.sleep(5) # Let the user actually see something!
search_box = driver.find_element_by_name('q')
search_box.send_keys('ChromeDriver')
search_box.submit()
time.sleep(5) # Let the user actually see something!
driver.quit()


Error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:Program Files (x86)Python36-32libsite-packagesseleniumwebdrivercommonservice.py", line 74, in start
stdout=self.log_file, stderr=self.log_file)
File "C:Program Files (x86)Python36-32libsubprocess.py", line 707, in __init__
restore_signals, start_new_session)
File "C:Program Files (x86)Python36-32libsubprocess.py", line 990, in _execute_child
startupinfo)
PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:WebdriversRawBot.py", line 5, in <module>
driver = webdriver.Chrome('C:Webdrivers') # Optional argument, if not specified will search path.
File "C:Program Files (x86)Python36-32libsite-packagesseleniumwebdriverchromewebdriver.py", line 62, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "C:Program Files (x86)Python36-32libsite-packagesseleniumwebdrivercommonservice.py", line 86, in start
os.path.basename(self.path), self.start_error_message)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'Webdrivers' executable may have wrong permissions. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home


3 Answers
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The error says it all WebDriverException: Message: 'Webdrivers' executable may have wrong permissions..

WebDriverException: Message: 'Webdrivers' executable may have wrong permissions.

You have tried out:

driver = webdriver.Chrome('C:Webdrivers') # Optional argument, if not specified will search path.


A few words:

On Windows, if you are explicitly specifying the chromedriver binary path you have to provide it along with the binary extension.

chromedriver

On Windows, while mentioning the chromedriver binary path you have to either use the single front slash (/) along with the raw (r) switch or you have to use the escaped back slash (\).

chromedriver

(/)

(r)

(\)

So the line will be :

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:/Utility/BrowserDrivers/chromedriver.exe')


This got solved when you enter the full file name which is "chromedriver.exe". Try this if you are on windows

os.path.basename(self.path), self.start_error_message)


selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable may have wrong permissions. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home

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