[Solved] selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: ‘geckodriver’ executable needs to be in PATH

When I have installed Selenium And I am trying to import webdriver from It But I am facing the following error: selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: ‘geckodriver’ executable needs to be in PATH in Python. We are going to Learn about All Possible Solutions So Lets Get Start with This Article.

How selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: ‘geckodriver’ executable needs to be in PATH Error Occurs?

I have installed Selenium And I am trying to import webdriver from It But I am facing the following error:

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'geckodriver' executable needs to be in PATH.

So here I am writing all the possible solutions that I have tried to resolve this error.

How To Solve selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: ‘geckodriver’ executable needs to be in PATH Error?

Solution 1: Add Firefox executable_path

When You Want to use Firefox From selenium then You have to download geckodriver and Add its path In Our Code.

1. First of all Download geckodriver.
2. and Now Extract it and You can See there is geckodriver.exe file.
3. Then You have to copy its path whenever geckodriver.exe file saved.
4. paste This path in this executable_path.
5. webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=r’your\path\geckodriver.exe’)
6. And now You can run Firefox without any error.
7. Full source code is like below.

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=r'your\path\geckodriver.exe')
driver.get('https://google.com')

Now, Your error must be solved Thank You.

Solution 2: You can Use webdriver-manager

If You Don’t want all This stuff then You can Use Python pip Package named webdriver-manager. It will Automatic handle all this stuff.

First of all install webdriver-manager with the help of this command.

pip install webdriver-manager

Now, You can simply Import GeckoDriverManager just with one line of code.

from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.firefox import GeckoDriverManager

And then Install it Just like this.

driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=GeckoDriverManager().install())

And You can Use Firefox without manually downloading and without any stuff.

from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.firefox import GeckoDriverManager

driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=GeckoDriverManager().install())

driver.get('https://google.com')

And Now, Your error must be solved and your error is gone You can Now Use selenium with Firefox Thanks.

Conclusion

It’s all About this error. Hope We solved Your error. Comment below Your thoughts and your queries. Also, Comment below which solution worked for you?

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