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 by [Bernardas Alisauskas](https://scrapfly.io/blog/author/bernardas) Dec 19, 2022 1 min read [\#python](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/python) [\#selenium](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/selenium) 

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Selenium is a popular web browser automation library used for web scraping. To run, however, Selenium needs special web browser executables called drivers. For example, to run Chrome web browser Selenium needs [chromedriver](https://sites.google.com/chromium.org/driver/) to be installed. Without it a generic exception will be raised:

text```text
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH.
```



This can also mean that the chromedriver is installed but Selenium can't find it. To fix this the chromedriver location should be added to the `PATH` environment variable:

shell```shell
$ export PATH=$PATH:/location/where/chromedriver/is/
```



Alternatively, we can specify the driver directly in the Selenium initiation code:

python```python
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'your\path\chromedriver.exe')
driver.get('https://scrapfly.io/')
```





 

    



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