self.start_error_message) WebDriverException: Message: 'geckodriver' executable needs to be in PATH. - Python

Question

I'm getting below error

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ERROR: setUpClass (__main__.Test_Cron4_CruxCxRestIntegration_cron4)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "D:\CRUX\crux-ui-automation\Testcases\Test_Cron4_PerformCruxAndCXIntegration.py", line 24, in setUpClass
cls.driver = commonObject.firefoxDriver()
File "D:\CRUX\crux-ui-automation\FunctionLibrary\CommonFunctions\Commonfunctions.py", line 34, in firefoxDriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\webdriver.py", line 142, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 81, in start
os.path.basename(self.path), self.start_error_message)
WebDriverException: Message: 'geckodriver' executable needs to be in PATH.

Comments

Can you post the code that you are using to start the browser?

Answer 1

It looks like you have not downloaded and set geckodriver.exe to your environment variable before starting a browser.

First, download geckodriver.exe from here: https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases

Now extract the downloaded geckodriver and append location where you have extracted it to environment variable PATH.

Say, you extracted your geckodriver to c:\drivers\geckdriver. You should append c:\drivers\geckdriver to your variable PATH.