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I can't understand why geckodriver doesn't work and why the path doesn't exist. I use Ubuntu and Firefox, I uninstalled and reinstalled geckodriver and Firefox-geckodriver. I checked the version and I use geckodriver 0.30.0 (d372710b98a6 2021-09-16 10:29 +0300). I have already tried uninstalling and installing with

wget https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.30.0/geckodriver-v0.30.0-linux64.tar.gz
tar -xvzf geckodriver-v0.30.0- linux64.tar.gz 
chmod + x geckodriver 
export PATH = $ PATH: / path-to-extracted-file /

I also installed

sudo apt install firefox-geckodriver

I try to run this little script, but I get the error:

raise WebDriverException (
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'geckodriver' executable needs to be in PATH.

Code

from selenium.webdriver import Firefox
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.firefox_profile import FirefoxProfile

from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium import webdriver

from selenium.webdriver.firefox.firefox_profile import FirefoxProfile
import os

from selenium.webdriver.firefox.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options
profile_path = '/home/jack/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Browser/profile.default'

options=Options()
options.set_preference('profile', profile_path)
options.set_preference('network.proxy.type', 1)
options.set_preference('network.proxy.socks', '127.0.0.1')
options.set_preference('network.proxy.socks_port', 9050)
options.set_preference("network.proxy.socks_remote_dns", False)

service = Service('/usr/bin/geckodriver')
driver = Firefox(service=service, options=options)

driver.get("www.google.com")
driver.quit()
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  • in PATH it has to be path to folder with geckodriver - /usr/bin, not path to file geckodriver - /usr/bin/geckodriver. I have on PATH folder in my home /home/furas/bin and in this folder I put all needed programs or scripts (in Python, Perl, Ruby, etc) Commented Apr 1, 2022 at 6:20
  • you may have to add to PATH in .bashrc so it would set it everytime when you restart computer Commented Apr 1, 2022 at 6:28
  • I have geckodriver in folder /home/furas/bin/ and when I use Service('/home/furas/bin/geckodriver') then it works. Maybe you don't have geckodriver in folder /usr/bin/ but in different folder - maybe full path is /usr/bin/geckodriver/geckodriver or maybe you put file in home folder. You should first check if you can run /usr/bin/geckodriver --version in console/terminal to see version. Commented Apr 1, 2022 at 6:30
  • see also module webdriver_manager which can check if you have correct driver and download it. Commented Apr 1, 2022 at 6:36

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There seems to be some ambiguity about the path/location where GeckoDriver is getting downloaded which may not be in PATH / deafault location.

In such cases as @furas suggested the easiest way out is to use the Webdriver Manager.

Sample code:

  • Selenium 3 compatible code:

    from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.firefox import GeckoDriverManager

driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=GeckoDriverManager().install())

  • Selenium 4 compatible code:

    from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.service import Service
from webdriver_manager.firefox import GeckoDriverManager

driver = webdriver.Firefox(service=Service(GeckoDriverManager().install()))
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Thank you. Tomorrow I will read calmly and carefully and try

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