Selenium WebDriver.get(url) does not open the URL

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from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait # available since 2.4.0
import time


# Create a new instance of the Firefox driver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()


# go to the google home page
driver.get("http://www.google.com")

This opens a Firefox window but does not open a url.

I have a proxy server(but the address bar does not show the passed url)
I have two Firefox profiles.

Can 1 or 2 be an issue? if yes, then how can I resolve it?

Did you fix this issue ? I meet the same problem on my ubuntu. — WoooHaaaa
– WoooHaaaa, Commented Sep 21, 2012 at 6:26
Try to use github.com/iamalittletester/thewaiter. This can be helpfull. See here howto: imalittletester.com/2018/04/10/… — gandra404
– gandra404, Commented Sep 26, 2018 at 14:36

grdshch · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-15 09:18:26Z

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It is a defect of Selenium.
I have the same problem in Ubuntu 12.04 behind the proxy.

Problem is in incorrect processing proxy exclusions. Default Ubuntu exclusions are located in no_proxy environment variable:

no_proxy=localhost,127.0.0.0/8

But it seems that /8 mask doesn't work for selenium. To workaround the problem it is enough to change no_proxy to the following:

no_proxy=localhost,127.0.0.1

Removing proxy settings before running python script also helps:

http_proxy= python script.py

answered May 15, 2012 at 9:18

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Blink Over a year ago

Can you give a little more information on how you set no_proxy? You called it an environment variable, but I tried setting it export no_proxy=localhost,127.0.0.1 and that does nothing. And I misinterpreting your instructions?

kashesandr Over a year ago

Didn't help to me, MAC

R1ky68 · Accepted Answer · 2020-07-29 20:17:03Z

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I was facing exactly the same issue, after browsing for sometime,I came to know that it is basically version compatibility issue between FireFox and selenium. I have got the latest FireFox but my Selenium imported was older which is causing the issue. Issue got resolved after upgrading selenium

pip install -U selenium

OS: windows Python 2.7

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AdjunctProfessorFalcon Over a year ago

Would you mind sharing your method for retrieving current URL in open browser? I'm trying to grab redirect URL, but using print driver.current_url only prints the original URL that was passed when I first opened the browser

CKM Over a year ago

or upgrade mozilla :)

jwpfox · Accepted Answer · 2017-12-13 02:25:07Z

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I have resolved this issue.

If your jar files are older than the latest version and the browser has updated to latest version, then download:

the latest jar files from the selenium website http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/, and
the latest geckodriver.exe.

edited Dec 13, 2017 at 2:25

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Bob Small Over a year ago

I tried this and upgraded to Selenium 3.0.1, but still same issue.

WoooHaaaa · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-22 01:22:36Z

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@Neeraj

I've resolved this problem, but i'm not sure if you are the same reason.

In general, my problem was caused by some permission issues.

I tried to move my whole project into ~/:

mv xxx/ ~/

and then i change give it the 777 permission:

chmod -R 777 xxx/

I'm not familiar with linux permission so i just do this to make sure i have permission to execute the program.

Even you don't have permission, the selenium program will not prompt you.

So, good luck.

answered Sep 22, 2012 at 1:22

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Jake Johnson Over a year ago

This didn't exactly solve the problem for me, but it did get me on the right track. When I installed the selenium-webdriver gem i used sudo gem install selenium-webdriver. I then reinstalled it without using sudo and it fixed my problem. It is true that selenium will fail silently if there is a permission issue.

user3735633 Over a year ago

You should never use 777 permissions. It's very dangerous.

sachin2013 · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-04 09:51:41Z

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import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30,TimeUnit.SECONDS);
driver.get("http://www.google.com");

OR

import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver,30);
driver.get("http://www.google.com");
//hplogo is the id of Google logo on google.com
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.id("hplogo")));

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Shithij Rai · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-08 15:23:31Z

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I had the similar problem. All I had to do was delete the existing geckodriver.exe and download the latest release of the same. You can find the latest release here https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases.

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kashesandr · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-29 08:52:31Z

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A spent a lot of time on this issue and finally found that selenium 2.44 not working with node version 0.12. Use node version 0.10.38.

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Alexei - check Codidact · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-18 13:10:14Z

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I got the same error when issuing a URL without the protocol (like localhost:4200) instead of a correct one also specifying the protocol (e.g. http://localhost:4200).

Google Chrome works fine without the protocol (it takes http as the default), but Firefox crashes with this error.

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HK boy · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-10 17:48:04Z

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I was getting similar problem and Stating string for URL worked for me. :)

package Chrome_Example;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class Launch_Chrome {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Users\\doyes\\Downloads\\chromedriver_win324\\chromedriver.exe");
        String URL = "http://www.google.com";
        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
        driver.get(URL);
    }

}

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AJRakesh Over a year ago

I tried but not working

Tiago Peres · Accepted Answer · 2020-07-29 08:57:44Z

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I had the same problem but with Chrome.

Solved it using the following steps

Install Firefox/Chrome webdriver from Google
Put the webdriver in Chrome's directory.

Here's the code and it worked fine

from selenium import webdriver

class InstaBot(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self.driver=webdriver.Chrome("C:\Program 
        Files(x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chromedriver.exe")# make sure 
                                                      #it is chrome driver 
        self.driver.get("https://www.wikipedia.com")
        
        
InstaBot()

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Praneeth T T · Accepted Answer · 2020-11-18 11:55:50Z

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Check your browser version and do the following.

1. Download the Firefox/Chrome webdriver from Google

2. Put the webdriver in Chrome's directory.

answered Nov 18, 2020 at 11:55

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Richard Tanner · Accepted Answer · 2021-02-13 20:59:56Z

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I was having the save issue when trying with Chrome. I finally placed my chromedrivers.exe in the same location as my project. This fixed it for me.

answered Feb 13, 2021 at 20:59

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fanbyprinciple · Accepted Answer · 2021-06-11 11:31:01Z

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Update your driver based on your browser.

In my case for chrome,

Download latest driver for your chrome from here : https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads Check chrome version from your browser at : chrome://settings/help.
While initialising your driver, use driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="path/to/downloaded/driver")

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Thomas · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-09 09:50:56Z

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Please have a look at this HowTo: http://www.qaautomation.net/?p=373 Have a close look at section "Instantiating WebDriver"

I think you are missing the following code line:

wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 30);

Put it between

driver = webdriver.Firefox();

and

driver.getUrl("http://www.google.com");

Haven't tested it, because I'm not using Selenium at the moment. I'm familiar with Selenium 1.x.

answered Sep 9, 2011 at 9:50

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Neeraj Over a year ago

I tried this too. I am at a loss. It just does not open any url.

Thomas Over a year ago

Maybe you have a typo? In your question you are writing: "driver.get("http:...")", but it must be "driver.getURL("http:...")

Layla · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-25 15:16:59Z

I was having the save issue. I assume you made sure your java server was running before you started your python script? The java server can be downloaded from selenium's download list.

When I did a netstat to evaluate the open ports, i noticed that the java server wasn't running on the specific "localhost" host:

When I started the server, I found that the port number was 4444 :

$ java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.35.0.jar 
Sep 24, 2013 10:18:57 PM org.openqa.grid.selenium.GridLauncher main
INFO: Launching a standalone server
22:19:03.393 INFO - Java: Apple Inc. 20.51-b01-456
22:19:03.394 INFO - OS: Mac OS X 10.8.5 x86_64
22:19:03.418 INFO - v2.35.0, with Core v2.35.0. Built from revision c916b9d
22:19:03.681 INFO - RemoteWebDriver instances should connect to: http://127.0.0.1:4444/wd/hub
22:19:03.683 INFO - Version Jetty/5.1.x
22:19:03.683 INFO - Started HttpContext[/selenium-server/driver,/selenium-server/driver]
22:19:03.685 INFO - Started HttpContext[/selenium-server,/selenium-server]
22:19:03.685 INFO - Started HttpContext[/,/]
22:19:03.755 INFO - Started org.openqa.jetty.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler@21b64e6a
22:19:03.755 INFO - Started HttpContext[/wd,/wd]
22:19:03.765 INFO - Started SocketListener on 0.0.0.0:4444

I was able to view my listening ports and their port numbers(the -n option) by running the following command in the terminal:

$netstat -an | egrep 'Proto|LISTEN'

This got me the following output

Proto Recv-Q Send-Q  Local Address          Foreign Address        (state)    

tcp46      0      0  *.4444                 *.*                    LISTEN

I realized this may be a problem, because selenium's socket utils, found in: webdriver/common/utils.py are trying to connect via "localhost" or 127.0.0.1:

socket_.connect(("localhost", port))

once I changed the "localhost" to '' (empty single quotes to represent all local addresses), it started working. So now, the previous line from utils.py looks like this:

socket_.connect(('', port))

I am using MacOs and Firefox 22. The latest version of Firefox at the time of this post is 24, but I heard there are some security issues with the version that may block some of selenium's functionality (I have not verified this). Regardless, for this reason, I am using the older version of Firefox.

user3702267 · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-03 08:04:26Z

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This worked for me (Tested on Ubuntu Desktop 11.04 with Python-2.7):

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("http://www.stackoverflow.com")

answered Jun 3, 2014 at 8:04

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:34:29Z

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Since you mentioned you use a proxy, try setting up the firefox driver with a proxy by following the answer given here proxy selenium python firefox

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A. Luiten · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-15 09:57:31Z

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Try the following code

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

WebDriver DRIVER = new FirefoxDriver();
DRIVER.get("http://www.google.com");

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answered Dec 14, 2011 at 13:15

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Curious · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-22 15:45:46Z

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You need to first declare url as a sting as below:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait # available since 2.4.0
import time


# Create a new instance of the Firefox driver

String URL = "http://www.google.com";

driver = webdriver.Firefox()


# go to the google home page
driver.get(URL);

answered Apr 22, 2016 at 15:45

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Chau Pham Over a year ago

It's not a big deal. Besides, It doesn't help, at least in the case. -1 for that

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