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

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

if you are using chrome you must specify the full path of the chromedriver.
search for the directory in which your chromedriver executable file resides.
click shift+right click on the executable file.
select “copy as path” and paste it in your script.
don’t forget to use a double backslash

so it should be:

driver = webdriver.Chrome('C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\chromedriver.exe')

For me, none of the answers above worked. But moving the chromedriver.exe to a new path (desktop in my case) solved it.

path = "C:/Users/YOUR_USER/Desktop/chromedriver/chromedriver.exe"

had same issue in django.

However when I ran the same code locally (not activating my django app) it was fine and didn’t have to explicitly define the path to the chrome driver.

Got around it by explicitly defining the path and the chromederiver.exe

similar to the answer above.
path = “C:/Users/YOUR_USER/Desktop/chromedriver/chromedriver.exe”

in my case, since I want to eventually post my app I used dynamic paths

ie.

import os

BASE_oaAPP_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
BASE_oaAPP_Utilities_DIR  = os.path.join(BASE_oaAPP_DIR, 'mySubFolderInTheApp')

def utilsPathFileName(fileName):
    return os.path.join(BASE_oaAPP_Utilities_DIR, fileName)

chrome_path = utilsPathFileName('chromedriver.exe')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_path)

I got the same error when wrongly installed drives(when for mac was downloaded windows drivers) once I correct it worked fine

You need to add exe at the end of the path of driver and it works.

locate your installed driver.exe,
shift+right click,
copy as path,
paste it to your IDE

You just have to add

/chromedriver.exe

at the end of the path like this:

driver = webdriver.Chrome('C:/Users/User/Downloads/chromedriver_win32/chromedriver.exe')

Note: If you copy the path from “File Explorer” you will get:

C:UsersUserDownloadschromedriver_win32

You will need to use double backslashes like this:

C:\Users\User\Downloads\chromedriver_win32

so you don’t get a syntax error. Or you can just use forward slashes.

If you are on a linux os, changing file permissions could possibly fix the problem. But beware of what you do with permissions:

chmod 755 "/path to chromedriver file"

I downloaded the file via python itself, which unfortunately disabled execution permission and this was the quick fix for it.

we can fix this issue for centos

#Install package chromedriver. Install it using yum    
yum install chromedriver

#Import following package in python.
from selenium import webdriver

#Add following options before initializing the webdriver
chromeOptions = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chromeOptions.add_argument("--headless")
chromeOptions.add_argument("--remote-debugging-port=9222")
chromeOptions.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
driver = webdriver.Chrome('/usr/bin/chromedriver',chrome_options=chromeOptions)

WINDOWS : Giving complete file path solved problem.

Many tutorials and articles are recorded with previous versions, where you just give directory path containing web drivers. But now you also have to provide specific driver path you’re using.

Instead of C:/WebDrivers give complete file path as C:/WebDrivers/chromedriver.exe

If you run it on a Windows computer you can also add it to Windows PATH (environment variables) so you don’t have to declare executable_path. You can just say: webdriver.Chrome(options=your_options)

I got his error for MacOs and on changing the path to the one given below, the issue was solved.

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='/path/to/chromedriver')

If you use a Mac OS Big Sur, and Chromedriver 90+, you might have an error with the permissions of your Chromedriver.

If this is the case, it’s not the file permissions that you change via "chmod," instead, it is apple-store protection that forbids the execution of the web driver.

If you like to allow this driver to be used within your Python environment or via command-line, enter:

`$ sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine  /usr/local/bin/chromedriver`

chmod 755 "/path to chromedriver file"

This has helped me

I kept having this SAME problem after:

• my script did not recognize chromdriver.exe in my $PATH (yes, it’s there)
• gave run permissions to exe
• passed ‘path/to/chromedriver.exe’ into Chrome()

This is what solved it:
Don’t give .exe in the python path(just provide up to the chromedriver in the path)

example:

driver = webdriver.Chrome("/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/.../webdriver/chrome/chromedriver")

Unfortunately I still cant’ get my script to read the chromedriver.exe path from my $PATH variable. Would still appreciate if someone helped out, although it’s beyond the scope of this question

The same problem. My solution was in Linux os, Pycharm editor…

1. Make sure your webdriver file with other python files (such as selinum_driver.py)
2. Then just copy the path and paste it into your webdriver.Chrome(‘path’)
3. Don’t need to write webdriver.exe

driver = webdriver.Chrome('/home/raju/Documents/Python-selenium/chromedriver')

For WINDOWS 10: I ran into a similar situation with the same error message when running my test code in Visual Studio Code. What solved it for me was to close out of the VS Code app and re-open the app as an administrator via the right-click menu.

in Linux you need to specify the FULL path including the file itself as well, not just up to the folder (in Linux by default the downloaded file for chrome driver comes in a folder, e.g. ‘chromedriver_linux64’, open the folder and check the exact file name as well, usually ‘chromedriver’):

from selenium import webdriver
chrome_driver_path = "/home/mn/chromedriver_linux64/chromedriver"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=chrome_driver_path)
driver.get("https://www.amazon.com")

Windows users and visual studio code: while mentioning the Chromedriver binary path you have to either use the single forward slash i.e. (/) along with the raw (r) switch or you have to use the escaped backslash i.e. ().
as well use the exact path and add chromedriver.exe at the end of the path to point directly to the executable:

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:/path/to/chromedriver.exe')

or:

driver = webdriver.Chrome(r'C:\Users\wanja\Downloads\Compressed\chromedriver_win32\chromedriver.exe')

this error means that file chromedriver is not executable,
I fix this error with run command of (in linux):

sudo chmod +777 chromedriver

It means to make the file executable by everyone with access.