Running Selenium with Chrome Webdriver; my program worked for 4 months until Edge suddenly stopped working, switched to Chrome at behest of another [far more capable] scripter
Now Chrome doesn't stay open and won't run my program! I literally ONLY changed which webdriver I use for this code; from Edge --> Chrome! It worked fine before
driver = webdriver.Chrome('C:\path..')
df = pd.read_excel('my_workbook...')
while variable_in_df <= X:
driver.get(f'URL...')
(((gets CSS element whatever)))
return (CSS element from webpage)
The erros are:
Traceback (most recent call last):
driver = launchBrowser()
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=PATH);
super(WebDriver, self).__init__(DesiredCapabilities.CHROME['browserName'], "goog",
RemoteWebDriver.__init__(
self.start_session(capabilities, browser_profile)
response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters)
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
Another error says ChromeDriver is version 106 but wehnever I download Chrome it says it's 105. wghat??
You need to match the driver to the version of the browser you are using. It may be that your script stopped working with MS Edge because your browser updated and the webdriver didn't match the newer version of the browser anymore. You will need to periodically update the webdriver to match the browser version.
In the case of Chrome not working, it again sounds like a driver version mismatch. It sounds like your browser is on version 105, but you have the 106 driver. I suggest checking the version of Chrome you have installed on your machine and downloading the matching driver from here:
https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads
Alternatively, you can switch back to Edge and get the matching driver here:
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/webdriver/
You can check the version in most browsers under Help > About or similar from the main menu.
I hope this helps.
To overcome this problem, use WebDriverManager: refer - https://bonigarcia.dev/webdrivermanager/ and https://github.com/bonigarcia/webdrivermanager.
To install: pip install webdriver-manager
Then, in the code, add the below lines:
For Chrome:
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service as ChromeService
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=ChromeService(ChromeDriverManager().install()))
For Edge:
from selenium.webdriver.edge.service import Service as EdgeService
from webdriver_manager.microsoft import EdgeChromiumDriverManager
driver = webdriver.Edge(service=EdgeService(EdgeChromiumDriverManager().install()))
Related
My application does not have a login page to get authenticated. It uses my organizational email id (SSO) to authenticate my access to the application. I am using Version 80.0.361.66 (Official build) (64-bit) of Microsoft Edge.
driver = webdriver.Edge()
driver.maximize_window()
selenium version - selenium==3.141.0
This edge session does not use my work profile . It opens a new session because of which my work profile is not loaded and my access to the application is denied. However, I did try to update the version of selenium to use EdgeOptions. But, that didn't work as well. Below is the code :
options = webdriver.EdgeOptions()
options.add_argument("user-data-dir=C:\\Users\\Ajmal.Moideen\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\Edge\\User Data")
driver = webdriver.Edge(options=options)
driver.maximize_window()
selenium version=4.0.0a3
Here's how I got it to work - I am using Chromium Edge 85.0.564.51 with Selenium 3.141.0.
Selenium 3.141.0 from pip doesn't seem to support new Chromium-based Edge Webdriver, but Microsoft supplies it in their msedge-selenium-tools package (better documentation here) as mentioned by Matthias' comment on your question.
First, grab the Chromium Edge webdriver here - get the version that matches your version of Edge (go to chrome:version in Edge to see what version you are running). Put the webdriver somewhere convenient, you need to set driverpath below to point to it.
Install the pip packages:
pip install msedge-selenium-tools selenium==3.141
In your code, import the msedge-selenium-tools Webdriver and Options modules and build the webdriver as shown:
from msedge.selenium_tools import Edge, EdgeOptions
...
options = EdgeOptions()
options.use_chromium = True
options.add_argument("--user-data-dir=C:\\Users\\YOUR-USERNAME\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\Edge\\User Data")
options.add_argument("--start-maximized")
driverpath = 'msedgedriver.exe'
driver = Edge(driverpath, options=options)
Voilà, that should do the trick.
P.S.: Even though chrome:version will show your Profile path with a trailing \Default, don't include that in your --user-data-dir argument above, since the driver seems to append \Default to the end.
First, machine and package specs:
I am running:
ChromeDriver version 75.0.3770.140
Selenium: version '3.141.0'
WSL (linux subsystem) of windows 10
I am trying to run a chromebrowser through selenium. I found: these commands, to use selenium through google chrome.
I have a test directory, with only the chromedriver binary file, and the script, in it. The location of the directory is: /home/kela/test_dir/
I ran the code:
import selenium
from selenium import webdriver
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.firefox_binary import FirefoxBinary
from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities
options = Options()
options.binary_location='/home/kela/test_dir/chromedriver'
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options = options,executable_path='/home/kela/test_dir/chromedriver')
The output from this code is:
selenium.common.exceptions.SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: No matching capabilities found
Can anyone explain why I need capabilities when the same script works for others without capabilities? I did try adding:
chrome_options.add_argument('--headless')
chrome_options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
but I got the same error. So I'm not sure what capabilities I need to add (considering it works for others without it?)
Edit 1: Addressing DebanjanB's comments below:
Chromedriver is in the expected location. I am using windows 10. From here, the expected location is C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe; and this is where it is on my machine (I copied and pasted this location from the chrome Properties table).
ChromeDriver is having executable permission for non-root users.
I definitely have Google Chrome v75.0 installed (I can see that the Product version 75.0.3770.100)
I am running the script as a non-root user, as my bash command line ends with a $ and not # (i.e kela:~/test_dir$ and not kela:~/test_dir#)
Edit 2: Based on DebanjanB's answer below, I am very close to having it working, but just not quite.
The code:
import selenium
from selenium import webdriver
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.firefox_binary import FirefoxBinary
from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
options = Options()
options.binary_location='/c/Program Files (x86)/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe'
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
driver.get('http://google.com/')
Produces a dialog box that reads:
Google Chrome cannot read and write to it's data directory: /tmp/.com/google.Chrom.gyw63s
So then I double checked my Chrome permissions and I should be able to write to Chrome:
Also, I can see that /tmp/ has a bunch of .com dirs in it:
.com.google.Chrome.4jnWme/ .com.google.Chrome.FdNyKP/ .com.google.Chrome.VAcWMQ/ .com.google.Chrome.ZbkRx0/ .com.google.Chrome.iRrceF/
.com.google.Chrome.A2QHHB/ .com.google.Chrome.G7Y51c/ .com.google.Chrome.WD8BtK/ .com.google.Chrome.cItmhA/ .com.google.Chrome.pm28hN/
However, since that seemed to be more of a warning than an error, I clicked 'ok' to close the dialog box, and a new tab does open in the browser; but the URL is just 'data:,'. The same thing happens if I remove the line 'driver.get('http://google.com')' from the script, so I know the warning/issue is with the line:
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options = options,executable_path='/home/kela/test_dir/chromedriver')
For example, from here, I tried adding:
options.add_argument('--profile-directory=Default')
But the same warning pops up.
Edit 3:
As edit 3 was starting to veer into a different question than specifically being addressed here, I started a new question here.
This error message...
selenium.common.exceptions.SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: No matching capabilities found
...implies that the ChromeDriver was unable to initiate/spawn a new WebBrowser i.e. Chrome Browser session.
binary_location
binary_location set/get(s) the location of the Chrome (executable) binary and is defined as:
def binary_location(self, value):
"""
Allows you to set where the chromium binary lives
:Args:
- value: path to the Chromium binary
"""
self._binary_location = value
So as per your code trials, options.binary_location='/home/kela/test_dir/chromedriver' is incorrect.
Solution
If Chrome is installed at the default location, you can safely remove this property. Incase Chrome is installed at a customized location you need to use the options.binary_location property to point to the Chrome installation.
You can find a detailed discussion in Selenium: WebDriverException:Chrome failed to start: crashed as google-chrome is no longer running so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed
Effectively, you code block will be:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
options = Options()
options.binary_location=r'C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe'
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options, executable_path='/home/kela/test_dir/chromedriver.exe')
driver.get('http://google.com/')
Additionally, ensure the following:
ChromeDriver is having executable permission for non-root users.
As you are using ChromeDriver v75.0 ensure that you have the recommended version of the Google Chrome v75.0 as:
---------ChromeDriver 75.0.3770.8 (2019-04-29)---------
Supports Chrome version 75
Execute the Selenium Test as non-root user.
I am trying to use chromedriver with Selenium on Windows 10 but I get the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "scrape.py", line 4, in <module>
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
File "C:\Python37\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py", line 73, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "C:\Python37\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 83, in start
os.path.basename(self.path), self.start_error_message)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home
And here's my test script:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("http://www.python.org")
assert "Python" in driver.title
elem = driver.find_element_by_name("q")
elem.clear()
elem.send_keys("pycon")
elem.send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
assert "No results found." not in driver.page_source
driver.close()
I've tried many things. I'll detail below.
I've attempted to add the path to chromedriver to PATH. Image here:
This works fine because I can run chromedriver from the commandline:
C:\Users\KraftWurk>chromedriver
Starting ChromeDriver 74.0.3729.6 (255758eccf3d244491b8a1317aa76e1ce10d57e9-refs/branch-heads/3729#{#29}) on port 9515
Only local connections are allowed.
Please protect ports used by ChromeDriver and related test frameworks to prevent access by malicious code.
But still, when I run my scripts I get the error that chromedriver needs to be in PATH ... it is, so not sure what's going on there.
I've read the following: Python Selenium Chrome Webdriver
I've attempted to provide the path as suggested using:
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r"C:\drivers\chromedriver.exe")
I still get the same warning.
I'm not quite sure what's going on. I'm using Python 3.7 on Windows 10. Selenium 3.141.0 and Chromedriver 74.0.3729.6
To eliminates lot of manual works and incompatibility issues, I would suggest you to go for WebDriverManager as it automatically downloads required binary and we do not need to set any path.
It supports browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, PhantomJS, Microsoft Edge, or Internet Explorer.
How do we use this in our project?
Only setup required is to install this package using ‘pip’.
pip install webdriver_manager
That’s it! We are all set. Just import this module in your python project and start using it.
For Chrome:
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=ChromeDriverManager().install())
driver.get("http://www.google.com/")
print driver.title
driver.quit()
For Firefox:
from webdriver_manager.firefox import GeckoDriverManager
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=GeckoDriverManager().install())
driver.get("http://www.google.com/")
print driver.title
driver.quit()
For Edge:
from webdriver_manager.microsoft import EdgeDriverManager
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Edge(executable_path=EdgeDriverManager().install())
driver.get("http://www.google.com/")
print driver.title
driver.quit()
For IE:
from webdriver_manager.microsoft import IEDriverManager
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Ie(executable_path=IEDriverManager().install())
driver.get("http://www.google.com/")
print driver.title
driver.quit()
webdriver_manager, by default, tries to download the latest version of a given driver binary. To use a specific version of driver, pass the driver version like below.
webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=ChromeDriverManager("2.42").install())
I use Selenium WebDriver on Ubuntu Desktop 16.04, and I can't open browser. I get the following error after Firefox update (before this, it all worked):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 6, in <module>
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 81, in __init__
self.binary, timeout)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/extension_connection.py", line 51, in __init__
self.binary.launch_browser(self.profile, timeout=timeout)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/firefox_binary.py", line 68, in launch_browser
self._wait_until_connectable(timeout=timeout)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/firefox_binary.py", line 98, in _wait_until_connectable
raise WebDriverException("The browser appears to have exited "
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: The browser appears to have exited before we could connect. If you specified a log_file in the FirefoxBinary constructor, check it for details.
As of Firefox version 47.0 (which came out a little while a go), a new driver must be used (created by mozilla instead of selenium) to connect to Firefox, because of a bug introduces in this version. As of Firefox version 48.0 the old driver will be deprecated completely and only Marionette can be used so it is better to switch now. See: Marionette Webdriver for Firefox
Download the driver (in OSX just use brew install geckodriver), rename the executable to wires.exe on windows, or wires on *nix systems, and make sure the executable is present in your system path, then use this driver in your program instead of the old driver by using the following:
When using a local webdriver:
Python:
firefox_capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.FIREFOX
firefox_capabilities['marionette'] = True
driver = webdriver.Firefox(capabilities=firefox_capabilities)
Ruby:
driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox, marionette: true
Javascript:
var capabilities = Capabilities.firefox();
capabilities.set('marionette', true);
var driver = new webdriver.Builder().withCapabilities(capabilities).build();
Java:
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.firefox();
capabilities.setCapability("marionette", true);
Webdriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(capabilities);
C#:
var driver = new FirefoxDriver(new FirefoxOptions());
When using selenium grid:
When using a selenium grid the driver should be present in the path for all machines in your grid.
Python:
firefox_capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.FIREFOX
firefox_capabilities['marionette'] = True
driver = webdriver.Firefox(capabilities=firefox_capabilities)
Ruby:
caps = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Capabilities.firefox marionette: true
driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox, desired_capabilities: caps
Java:
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.firefox();
// Set Marionette on so the Grid will use this instead of normal FirefoxDriver
capabilities.setCapability("marionette", true);
WebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(capabilities);
C#:
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.Firefox();
// Set Marionette on so the Grid will use this instead of normal FirefoxDriver
capabilities.SetCapability("marionette", true);
var driver = new RemoteWebDriver(capabilities);
FIXED:
Solution at this time is to downgrade Firefox!
run this command to get a list of available Firefox versions.
apt-cache show firefox | grep Version
My Result:
Version: 47.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
Version: 45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1
Install:
sudo apt-get install firefox=45.0.2+build1-0ubuntu1
To keep this version and disallow updates:
sudo apt-mark hold firefox
If you want to unhold firefox version and allow updates:
sudo apt-mark unhold firefox
sudo apt-get upgrade
Solution : Upgrade Firefox to 47.0.1 and Selenium to 2.53.1.
This combination worked for me.
For more details refer to https://stackoverflow.com/a/37728659/6469532
Some people have the problem that some buttons or select boxes cannot be selected inmarionette modus.
An alternative is using older firefox version:
You can download the binary here and use it here:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.firefox_binary import FirefoxBinary
binary = FirefoxBinary('path/to/binary')
driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_binary=binary)
SOLUTION downgrade to 45 version:
firefox --version
Mozilla Firefox 47.0
apt-get remove firefox
wget https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/45.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/firefox-45.0.tar.bz2
tar -xjf firefox-45.0.tar.bz2
mv firefox /opt/firefox45
ln -s /opt/firefox45/firefox /usr/bin/firefox
firefox --version
Mozilla Firefox 45.0
1) Download geckodriver 0.6.2, unzip, rename to "wires" not "wires.exe"
https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases
2) Add the wires executable location to PATH (I put this in my python folder C:Program Files\Python...)
Select Start, select Control Panel. double click System, and select the Advanced tab.
Click Environment Variables. ...
In the Edit System Variable (or New System Variable) window, specify the value of the PATH environment variable. ... (Use ';' to separate paths i.e. [C:Users\Reuben;C:Program Files\Python]
3) Downgrade to Firefox 45
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/45.0.2/win64/en-US/
No need to downgrade Firefox. I have faced issue with Windows and Firefox 49 version. I was using geckodrvier 64 bit version. I changed it to geckodrvier 32 bit version and it solved the issue. Now browser is opening properly without any issue.
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait # available since 2.4.0
import time
# Create a new instance of the Firefox driver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
# go to the google home page
driver.get("http://www.google.com")
This opens a Firefox window but does not open a url.
I have a proxy server(but the address bar does not show the passed url)
I have two Firefox profiles.
Can 1 or 2 be an issue? if yes, then how can I resolve it?
It is a defect of Selenium.
I have the same problem in Ubuntu 12.04 behind the proxy.
Problem is in incorrect processing proxy exclusions. Default Ubuntu exclusions are located in no_proxy environment variable:
no_proxy=localhost,127.0.0.0/8
But it seems that /8 mask doesn't work for selenium. To workaround the problem it is enough to change no_proxy to the following:
no_proxy=localhost,127.0.0.1
Removing proxy settings before running python script also helps:
http_proxy= python script.py
I was facing exactly the same issue, after browsing for sometime,I came to know that it is basically version compatibility issue between FireFox and selenium. I have got the latest FireFox but my Selenium imported was older which is causing the issue. Issue got resolved after upgrading selenium
pip install -U selenium
OS: windows Python 2.7
I have resolved this issue.
If your jar files are older than the latest version and the browser has updated to latest version, then download:
the latest jar files from the selenium website http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/, and
the latest geckodriver.exe.
#Neeraj
I've resolved this problem, but i'm not sure if you are the same reason.
In general, my problem was caused by some permission issues.
I tried to move my whole project into ~/:
mv xxx/ ~/
and then i change give it the 777 permission:
chmod -R 777 xxx/
I'm not familiar with linux permission so i just do this to make sure i have permission to execute the program.
Even you don't have permission, the selenium program will not prompt you.
So, good luck.
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30,TimeUnit.SECONDS);
driver.get("http://www.google.com");
OR
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver,30);
driver.get("http://www.google.com");
//hplogo is the id of Google logo on google.com
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.id("hplogo")));
I had the similar problem. All I had to do was delete the existing geckodriver.exe and download the latest release of the same. You can find the latest release here https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases.
A spent a lot of time on this issue and finally found that selenium 2.44 not working with node version 0.12.
Use node version 0.10.38.
I got the same error when issuing a URL without the protocol (like localhost:4200) instead of a correct one also specifying the protocol (e.g. http://localhost:4200).
Google Chrome works fine without the protocol (it takes http as the default), but Firefox crashes with this error.
I was getting similar problem and Stating string for URL worked for me. :)
package Chrome_Example;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
public class Launch_Chrome {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Users\\doyes\\Downloads\\chromedriver_win324\\chromedriver.exe");
String URL = "http://www.google.com";
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get(URL);
}
}
I had the same problem but with Chrome.
Solved it using the following steps
Install Firefox/Chrome webdriver from Google
Put the webdriver in Chrome's directory.
Here's the code and it worked fine
from selenium import webdriver
class InstaBot(object):
def __init__(self):
self.driver=webdriver.Chrome("C:\Program
Files(x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chromedriver.exe")# make sure
#it is chrome driver
self.driver.get("https://www.wikipedia.com")
InstaBot()
Check your browser version and do the following.
1. Download the Firefox/Chrome webdriver from Google
2. Put the webdriver in Chrome's directory.
I was having the save issue when trying with Chrome. I finally placed my chromedrivers.exe in the same location as my project. This fixed it for me.
Update your driver based on your browser.
In my case for chrome,
Download latest driver for your chrome from here : https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads
Check chrome version from your browser at : chrome://settings/help.
While initialising your driver,
use driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="path/to/downloaded/driver")
Please have a look at this HowTo: http://www.qaautomation.net/?p=373
Have a close look at section "Instantiating WebDriver"
I think you are missing the following code line:
wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 30);
Put it between
driver = webdriver.Firefox();
and
driver.getUrl("http://www.google.com");
Haven't tested it, because I'm not using Selenium at the moment. I'm familiar with Selenium 1.x.
I was having the save issue. I assume you made sure your java server was running before you started your python script? The java server can be downloaded from selenium's download list.
When I did a netstat to evaluate the open ports, i noticed that the java server wasn't running on the specific "localhost" host:
When I started the server, I found that the port number was 4444 :
$ java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.35.0.jar
Sep 24, 2013 10:18:57 PM org.openqa.grid.selenium.GridLauncher main
INFO: Launching a standalone server
22:19:03.393 INFO - Java: Apple Inc. 20.51-b01-456
22:19:03.394 INFO - OS: Mac OS X 10.8.5 x86_64
22:19:03.418 INFO - v2.35.0, with Core v2.35.0. Built from revision c916b9d
22:19:03.681 INFO - RemoteWebDriver instances should connect to: http://127.0.0.1:4444/wd/hub
22:19:03.683 INFO - Version Jetty/5.1.x
22:19:03.683 INFO - Started HttpContext[/selenium-server/driver,/selenium-server/driver]
22:19:03.685 INFO - Started HttpContext[/selenium-server,/selenium-server]
22:19:03.685 INFO - Started HttpContext[/,/]
22:19:03.755 INFO - Started org.openqa.jetty.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler#21b64e6a
22:19:03.755 INFO - Started HttpContext[/wd,/wd]
22:19:03.765 INFO - Started SocketListener on 0.0.0.0:4444
I was able to view my listening ports and their port numbers(the -n option) by running the following command in the terminal:
$netstat -an | egrep 'Proto|LISTEN'
This got me the following output
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address (state)
tcp46 0 0 *.4444 *.* LISTEN
I realized this may be a problem, because selenium's socket utils, found in: webdriver/common/utils.py are trying to connect via "localhost" or 127.0.0.1:
socket_.connect(("localhost", port))
once I changed the "localhost" to '' (empty single quotes to represent all local addresses), it started working. So now, the previous line from utils.py looks like this:
socket_.connect(('', port))
I am using MacOs and Firefox 22. The latest version of Firefox at the time of this post is 24, but I heard there are some security issues with the version that may block some of selenium's functionality (I have not verified this). Regardless, for this reason, I am using the older version of Firefox.
This worked for me (Tested on Ubuntu Desktop 11.04 with Python-2.7):
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://www.stackoverflow.com")
Since you mentioned you use a proxy, try setting up the firefox driver with a proxy by following the answer given here proxy selenium python firefox
Try the following code
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
WebDriver DRIVER = new FirefoxDriver();
DRIVER.get("http://www.google.com");
You need to first declare url as a sting as below:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait # available since 2.4.0
import time
# Create a new instance of the Firefox driver
String URL = "http://www.google.com";
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
# go to the google home page
driver.get(URL);