MacOS Catalina(v 10.15.3): Error: “chromedriver” cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified. Unable to launch the chrome browser

Question

I have recently upgraded my mac machine to OS Catalina(v 10.15.3). After this upgrade I am unable to launch the chrome driver using selenium.

I am facing the below error

Answer 1

The above answers were helpful. I would just add that if you're running Selenium from a development environment, in my case a Jupyter Notebook, and this is the issue, you're likely to see a PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied error. There are other causes for this error, but it can be that macOS Catalina is blocking chromedriver from running for security reasons. Following the approaches above, I ran it from the command line and then was able to open it from Jupyter using driver = webdriver.Chrome('path/to/chromedriver).