Selenium using Python - Geckodriver executable needs to be in PATH
If you are using Selenium with the Firefox web browser and you see the error message "Geckodriver executable needs to be in PATH," it means that the Selenium Python library cannot find the geckodriver
executable on your system. geckodriver
is the executable that allows Selenium to interact with the Firefox browser.
To fix this error, you will need to download the geckodriver
executable and add it to your system's PATH. You can download geckodriver
from the following link:
https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases
Select the version of geckodriver
that is compatible with your version of Firefox and your operating system, and download the executable.
Once you have downloaded geckodriver
, you will need to add it to your system's PATH. On Windows, you can do this by adding the directory containing the geckodriver
executable to your PATH environment variable. On macOS or Linux, you can add geckodriver
to your PATH by adding the following line to your .bashrc
or .bash_profile
file:
export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/geckodriver
Replace /path/to/geckodriver
with the actual path to the geckodriver
executable on your system.
Once you have added geckodriver
to your PATH, you should be able to use Selenium with Firefox without seeing the "Geckodriver executable needs to be in PATH" error.