Instapy: Message: 'chromedriver' executable may have wrong permissions.

[RealMakAttak]

I have tried everything to get rid of this error when I try to run any InstaPy script.

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable may have wrong permissions. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home

I run with administrator cmd on windows 10, with full permissions (although the boxes are greyed out so im guessing those permissions are inherited)

What is wrong?!? Please help.

Thanks.

[onyxim]

Try to run with new docker micro services. It completely solves all chromedriver problems.

[RealMakAttak]

I will look in to that, thank you very much! @onyxim

[dc500]

If anyone has this problem on Mac try brew install chromedriver

[hajaja]

for me (using linux), the problem is solved by installing geckodriver

[guymzee]

All my tinker has left me with the same problem, I either get a can not find Chrome binary or the permissions error. Did anyone figure this problem out ?

[hecklerponics]

@guymzee same. this looks promising, but I can't seem to resolve the Message: 'chromedriver' executable may have wrong permissions. error :(

[hecklerponics]

@guymzee navigate to the dir your driver is in and type this: chmod a+x chromedriver

This solved the permissions issue for me, but now I'm having to troubleshoot this error chrome driver unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 127 :\

[AlanInsam]

I got also the error 'chromedriver' executable may have wrong permissions anyone knows how to solve?

[shnigi]

Got this issue when running Google-Chrome on Jenkins server. I had to download latest chromedriver here: http://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads I accidentally downloaded wrong version first, then I moved chromedriver to /usr/local/bin and set Jenkins to its owner, chown jenkins /usr/local/bin/chromedriver and nooow it works.

[gustafsom]

I performed the above procedure:

navigate to the dir your driver is in and type this: chmod a + x chromedriver

But now the following error occurs: [Errno 8] Exec format error

[hecklerponics]

There's no space between a+x

[gtkpr]

i'm getting the exact same error, 'chromedriver' executable may have wrong permissions. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home when trying to execute a spider that uses selenium on my CentOS 7 VPS

[gtkpr]

@hecklerponics on my CentOS 7 VPS i was getting the same error and i tried chmod a+x chromedriver, but now i get the following error:

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: cannot find Chrome binary (Driver info: chromedriver=2.40.565383 (76257d1ab79276b2d53ee976b2c3e3b9f335cde7),platform=Linux 3.10.0-862.3.3.el7.x86_64 x86_64)

[hecklerponics]

@gtkpr I don't know much about CentOS, but when I was using a Conda environment with it to run on an EC2+Ubuntu I had to make sure the chrome binary was accessible by the environment. Also, make sure you're using the binary for chrome and not the .exe.

[gtkpr]

i think i figured it out... move chromedriver to /usr/local/bin.

but now i'm getting the following error: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH.

[hecklerponics]

@gtkpr that's the error I got when the environment couldn't access the driver. Are you declaring the path to the chromedriver here: driver #= webdriver.Chrome('PATH/TO/chromedriver) ?

[gtkpr]

@hecklerponics
Sorry, i forgot to update its location in my script.

So once I moved it to /usr/local/bin and then updated the file location in my python script, then I started getting the following error:

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: cannot find Chrome binary

And this absolutely baffles me, unless it means i need to download and install Chrome/Chromium?!?!?!

[1. update]

Just found this thread, which affirms my belief, so I'm going to install one or the other and see if that fixes the problem!

[2. update]

So I installed Chrome via the official repository. Now it's throwing the following error:
DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist

When I try to launch Google Chrome on the VPS via SSH, I get an error [83526:83526:0622/212649.156252:ERROR:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(88)] Running as root without --no-sandbox is not supported. See https://crbug.com/638180. which links to a page that is no longer available...

When I try to open Chrome with the --no-sandbox parameter, I then get the error: (google-chrome-stable:85573): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: [0622/221013.556327:ERROR:nacl_helper_linux.cc(310)] NaCl helper process running without a sandbox! Most likely you need to configure your SUID sandbox correctly

[gtkpr]

@hajaja but dont u need firefox to use geckodriver? for some reason i cant figure out how to download firefox on my centos 7 vps and get it working :(

[Sooryasanand]

for me (using linux), the problem is solved by installing geckodriver

Where should I put the geckodriver?

[keerat21]

'chromedriver_win32' executable may have wrong permissions. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home
pls tell me the fix

[keerat21]

'chromedriver_win32' executable may have wrong permissions. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home
pls tell me the fix

move the Chrome webdriver to Scripts then no need to enter path

browser = webdriver.Chrome()