Webwhatsapp-wrapper: "Geckodriver needs to be in path" error

[Zingers-ZA]

Apologies if this is a very basic error. But when changing the client parameter to anything other than "remote"(eg. "firefox"), I get an error informing that Geckodriver is not in the path.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "sample/remotecopy.py", line 18, in
driver = WhatsAPIDriver(client='firefox', username='API', proxy=None, command_executor=None, loadstyles=False, profile=None, headless=False, autoconnect=True, logger=None, extra_params=None, chrome_options=None)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/webwhatsapi/__init__.py", line 196, in __init__
self.driver = webdriver.Firefox(capabilities=capabilities, options=options, extra_params)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 157, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 83, in start
os.path.basename(self.path), self.start_error_message)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: **Message: 'geckodriver' executable needs to be in PATH.

It is in my local servers' system path, but I assume the error is occurring because it is not in the docker containers path? How do I add it?
Thanks

• Rob

[marcelocecin]

the command_executor=None could not be none
see the example line 18 driver = WhatsAPIDriver(profile=profiledir, client='remote', command_executor=os.environ["SELENIUM"])
you can set the os environment after line 6: os.environ['SELENIUM'] = "http://IP:4444/wd/hub" (the IP address where selenium server is running)

[Zingers-ZA]

you can set the os environment after line 6: os.environ['SELENIUM'] = "http://IP:4444/wd/hub" (the IP address where selenium server is running)

Thanks, this solved the Geckodriver issue.

But according to the documentation:
"command_executor: Passed directly as an argument to Remote Selenium. Ignore if not using it."
My understanding is that command_executor is not required if running a Firefox client, correct? Could you give an example of line 18 with a Firefox client? Thanks.

[marcelocecin]

are you using remote or local selenium ?

[Zingers-ZA]

Oh right, I see. Yeah, I followed the readme so it would seem I am using the remote Selenium.

Sorry, this is turning into another issue. But If you wouldn't mind, I have a question. Where does the instance of Firefox run? Or where can I view the QR code? I have tried to view it using RealVNC but it refuses because my password is incorrect. I've also tried using the get_qr() function mentioned in the docs but I can't seem to save it somewhere that I can view. Does it save to the docker container or to my local disk? Thanks

[lfdelphino]

The QR code will be saved to the same folder of sample/remotecopy.py with get_qr().

If you want to use firefox, download the latest version of geckodriver according to your OS from here and place it on the same location sample.

[kevinkit]

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