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tzuhsial / InstagramCrawler

A non API python program to crawl public photos, posts or followers
https://github.com/iammrhelo/InstagramCrawler
MIT License
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'geckodriver' executable needs to be in PATH #15

Closed dontsovcmc closed 6 years ago

dontsovcmc commented 6 years ago

Please add info, that user should install geckodriver to PC and add path to PATH. Thanks!

Query account 'instagram', download 20 photos and their captions Traceback (most recent call last): File "instagramcrawler.py", line 355, in <module> main() File "instagramcrawler.py", line 345, in main crawler = InstagramCrawler(headless=args.headless) File "instagramcrawler.py", line 67, in __init__ self._driver = webdriver.Firefox() File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\webdriver.py", line 142, in __init_ _ self.service.start() File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 81, in start os.path.basename(self.path), self.start_error_message) selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'geckodriver' executable needs to be in PATH .

jopasserat commented 6 years ago

Check the commands in .travis.yml:

https://github.com/iammrhelo/InstagramCrawler/blob/ba8086b0859a0bcd54347712bfb5305091a2c396/.travis.yml#L11-L14

yakupad commented 6 years ago

try this -> brew install geckodriver

markusMM commented 5 years ago

Thus, geckodriver needs to be in PATH?

Thou, it does not matter, where the geckodriver in my system path actually is (as long as it is reachable), right?