Selenium : webdriver.Chorme() function problems

Question

I have difficulties in finding a solution, can you help me? This is the code text:

from selenium import webdriver
web = webdriver.Chrome("C:\ Users\giova\Desktop\chromedriver.exe")
web.get("https://www.youtube.com/")

This is the error that i receive when i run the program:

C:\Users\giova\PycharmProjects\pythonProject\venv\Scripts\python.exe C:/Users/giova/PycharmProjects/pythonProject/main.py
C:\Users\giova\PycharmProjects\pythonProject\main.py:2: DeprecationWarning: executable_path has been deprecated, please pass in a Service object
  web= webdriver.Chrome("C:\ Users\giova\Desktop\chromedriver.exe")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\giova\PycharmProjects\pythonProject\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 71, in start
    self.process = subprocess.Popen(cmd, env=self.env,
  File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.10_3.10.1520.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\lib\subprocess.py", line 969, in __init__
    self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
  File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.10_3.10.1520.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\lib\subprocess.py", line 1438, in _execute_child
    hp, ht, pid, tid = _winapi.CreateProcess(executable, args,
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] Impossibile trovare il file specificato

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\giova\PycharmProjects\pythonProject\main.py", line 2, in <module>
    web= webdriver.Chrome("C:\ Users\giova\Desktop\chromedriver.exe")
  File "C:\Users\giova\PycharmProjects\pythonProject\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py", line 70, in __init__
    super(WebDriver, self).__init__(DesiredCapabilities.CHROME['browserName'], "goog",
  File "C:\Users\giova\PycharmProjects\pythonProject\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chromium\webdriver.py", line 89, in __init__
    self.service.start()
  File "C:\Users\giova\PycharmProjects\pythonProject\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 81, in start
    raise WebDriverException(
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver.exe' executable needs to be in PATH. Please see https://chromedriver.chromium.org/home

Answer 1

The error you are getting is

FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] Impossibile trovare il file specificato

My guess is, this is because of this line,

web = webdriver.Chrome("C:\ Users\giova\Desktop\chromedriver.exe")

You might want to check the path "C:\ Users\giova\Desktop\chromedriver.exe" and correct it.

It might be possible that the space before Users breaks the path and hence the file isn't found.

It would be best to go to the location of the chromedriver.exe file in your file browser and then copy the path from there to get the correct path.