FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/content/drive/MyDrive/Santillana/geck-CodePudding

I am trying to use Selenium in Google Colab, but i get some errors when i try to run a Firefox instance. i followed this links:

The entire error:

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FileNotFoundError                         Traceback (most recent call last)

/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py in start(self)
     75                                             stdin=PIPE,
---> 76                                             creationflags=self.creationflags)
     77         except TypeError:

4 frames

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/content/drive/MyDrive/Santillana/geckodriver': '/content/drive/MyDrive/Santillana/geckodriver'


During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

WebDriverException                        Traceback (most recent call last)

/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py in start(self)
     81                 raise WebDriverException(
     82                     "'%s' executable needs to be in PATH. %s" % (
---> 83                         os.path.basename(self.path), self.start_error_message)
     84                 )
     85             elif err.errno == errno.EACCES:

WebDriverException: Message: 'geckodriver' executable needs to be in PATH.

CodePudding user response：

This error message...

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/content/drive/MyDrive/Santillana/geckodriver': '/content/drive/MyDrive/Santillana/geckodriver'

...implies that your program was unable to locate the GeckoDriver executable.

Analysis

As per the error message it seems you are on a linux system. However you have downloaded the windows version of GeckoDriver:

downloaded

Solution

Instead of the Windows version of GeckoDriver possibly you need to download the Linux version of GeckoDriver executable.