Selenium throws an error selenium common exceptions WebDriverException

Question

With the message: unknown error: cannot find Chrome binary” on Mac

I was using Selenium with Python 3 for web scraping purposes:

from selenium import webdriver

chrome_path = r"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin/chromedriver"

driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_path)

I got an error

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: cannot find Chrome binary

Answer 1

In your case the path of the chrome is at a non-default path. So, you need to specify the complete path to the Google Chrome binary.

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()

options.binary_location = "/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome"

chrome_driver_binary = "/usr/local/bin/chromedriver"

driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_driver_binary, chrome_options=options)

Above code is what you should use