WebDriverException: Message: 'wires' executable needs to be available in the path.

Question

I am automatating test using Selenium Webdriver in Python language. How ever I am getting error. My program is-:

from selenium import webdriver

from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities

firefox_capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.FIREFOX

firefox_capabilities['marionette'] =True

firefox_capabilities['binary'] = 'C:\Selenium driver\geckodriver.exe'

driver = webdriver.Firefox(capabilities = firefox_capabilities)

driver.get("http://www.seleniumhq.com")

assert "Selenium" in driver.title

driver.close()

 

I am getting the following error-:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "E:\PythonExample.py", line 7, in <module>

    driver = webdriver.Firefox(capabilities = firefox_capabilities)

  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\webdriver.py", line 60, in __init__

    self.service.start()

  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\service.py", line 68, in start

    available in the path.\n %s" % str(e))

WebDriverException: Message: 'wires' executable needs to be                 available in the path.

 [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified

 

Please help

 

Answer 1

Here firefox_capabilities['binary']  is location to the firefox binary and not gekodriver.exe file.

You can set the location of gekodriver.exe file in PATH variable to use it.

Eg. in Mac machine you can set path as given below

export PATH=$PATH:/Users/myproject/geckodriver-0.8.0-OSX

Hope that helps!

Comments

I have changed binary path to
firefox_capabilities['binary'] = 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox'

I am still getting the same error

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include firefox.exe as well and let us know.

firefox_capabilities['binary'] = 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe'

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Works now!!!