Selenium/PhantomJS raises error

Question

I\'m trying to run PhantomJS driver in Python but I\'m getting error. I\'ve read that I should pass the whole path as an argument but it di

Answer 1

Make the path in raw string, add 'r': 

driver = webdriver.PhantomJS(executable_path=r'D:\Python\phantomjs-2.0.0-windows\bin\phantomjs.exe')

Answer 2

For me none of the above solved the problem; I found the code:

driver = webdriver.PhantomJS()

Will only work for root...

Answer 3

For simplicity's sake place the executable in the same directory as your script:

driver = webdriver.PhantomJS() # now there's no need for a path

Answer 4

For me, this works fine and also don't have to specify path for PhantomJS You need to install pip install phantomjs-binary binary package using pip

pip install phantomjs-binary

it will download a package of approx 60MB. and contains PhantomJS for windows, mac, and Linux as per the running environment. after that, you can use it

from selenium import webdriver
from phantomjs_bin import executable_path

driver = webdriver.PhantomJS(executable_path=executable_path)