[🐛 Bug]: SeleniumManagerException AND WebDriverException

[knnthchng]

What happened?

I'm running a Jupyter Notebook in VS Code, and it's a simple demo of how we can use Splinter and BeautifulSoup for web scraping, as part of our data analytics bootcamp. All I did was set up Splinter and I get both a SeleniumManagerException and a WebDriverException message. So now I have no way to use Selenium or to make any progress in learning how to do web scraping. I also downloaded ChromeDriver but I have no idea where to put it.

How can we reproduce the issue?

from splinter import Browser
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

# Set up Splinter
browser = Browser('chrome')

Relevant log output

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SeleniumManagerException                  Traceback (most recent call last)
~/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.9/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py in start(self)
     94                 try:
---> 95                     path = SeleniumManager().driver_location(browser)
     96                 except WebDriverException as new_err:

~/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.9/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/selenium_manager.py in driver_location(self, browser)
     72 
---> 73         binary, flag, browser = str(self.get_binary()), "--browser", browser
     74         result = self.run((binary, flag, browser))

~/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.9/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/selenium_manager.py in get_binary()
     54             tracker = "https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues"
---> 55             raise SeleniumManagerException(f"{path} is missing.  Please open an issue on {tracker}")
     56 

SeleniumManagerException: Message: /Users/neth/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.9/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/macos/selenium-manager is missing.  Please open an issue on https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

WebDriverException                        Traceback (most recent call last)
/var/folders/mk/bhfym4gn0xnc981k93pfv7r80000gn/T/ipykernel_7401/4025534989.py in 
      1 # Set up Splinter
...
    210                     f"'{os.path.basename(self.path)}' executable needs to be in PATH. {self.start_error_message}"
    211                 )

WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH. Please see https://chromedriver.chromium.org/home

Operating System

macOS Ventura

Selenium version

Python 3.9.13

What are the browser(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

Chrome 111, Firefox 110

What are the browser driver(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

ChromeDriver 111.0.5563.64

Are you using Selenium Grid?

???

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[titusfortner]

Duplicate of https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/11234 — please use latest version of Selenium.

Selenium Manager code does not get used if drivers are found on the system; alternate ways of installing drivers can be found here - https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/webdriver/getting_started/install_drivers/

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