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

Question

I\'ve looked around checked both documentations and have found no answer.

I\'ve been trying to use InstaPy a instagram api for python. After failing with multiple er

Answer 1

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)