Running pyinstaller another pc with Chromedriver

Question

I am trying to add Chromedriver inside an executable in pyinstaller. While this is possible it seems that I get the below error message when trying to run this on another c

Answer 1

Use --add-binary to bundle the driver in the application:

pyinstaller -F --add-binary "C:\drivers\chromedriver.exe";"." script.py

and use sys._MEIPASS to get the folder where the driver is extracted:

import sys, os, time
from selenium import webdriver

if __name__ == "__main__":

  if getattr(sys, 'frozen', False): 
    # executed as a bundled exe, the driver is in the extracted folder
    chromedriver_path = os.path.join(sys._MEIPASS, "chromedriver.exe")
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(chromedriver_path)
  else:
    # executed as a simple script, the driver should be in `PATH`
    driver = webdriver.Chrome()

  driver.get("https://stackoverflow.com")
  time.sleep(5)

  driver.quit()