Webdrivers' Executable May Have Wrong Permissions. Please See Https://Sites.Google.Com/A/Chromium.Org/Chromedriver/Home

Webdrivers' executable may have wrong permissions. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home

This error message...

WebDriverException: Message: 'Webdrivers' executable may have wrong permissions.

...implies that the ChromeDriver variant you are trying to use have wrong permissions.

You seem to have tried out:

driver = webdriver.Chrome('C:\Webdrivers')  # Optional argument, if not specified will search system $PATH variable.

A few words:

If your underlying os is windows:
- You have to download chromedriver_win32.zip from the ChromeDriver Download Location and unzip it for usage.
- Additionally, if you are explicitly specifying the Chromedriver binary path you have to append the binary extension as well, effectively i.e. chromedriver.exe.
- While mentioning the Chromedriver binary path you have to either use the single forward slash i.e. (/) along with the raw (r) switch or you have to use the escaped backslash i.e. (\\).
- So your effective line of code will be :
```
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:/path/to/chromedriver.exe')
```
If your underlying os is linux:
- You have to download chromedriver_linux64 from the ChromeDriver Download Location and untar it for usage.
- Additionally, if you are explicitly specifying the Chromedriver binary path you don't have to provide any extension for the executable binary, effectively i.e. chromedriver.
- While mentioning the Chromedriver binary path you have to use the single forward slash i.e. (/).
- So your effective line of code will be :
```
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='/path/to/chromedriver')
```
If your underlying os is macos:
- You have to download chromedriver_mac64 from the ChromeDriver Download Location and untar it for usage.
- Additionally, if you are explicitly specifying the Chromedriver binary path you don't have to provide any extension for the executable binary, effectively i.e. chromedriver.
- While mentioning the chromedriver binary path you have to use the single forward slash i.e. (/).
- So your effective line of code will be :
```
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='/path/to/chromedriver')
```

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'WebScraping' executable may have wrong permissions

A couple of things here:

If your underlying os is windows:
- You have to download chromedriver_win32.zip from the ChromeDriver Download Location and unzip it for usage.
- Additionally, if you are explicitly specifying the Chromedriver binary path you have to append the binary extension as well, effectively i.e. chromedriver.exe.
- While mentioning the Chromedriver binary path you have to either use the single forward slash i.e. (/) along with the raw (r) switch or you have to use the escaped backslash i.e. (\\).
- So your effective line of code will be :
```
chrome_driver_path = r'C:/Users/thangtruong/WebScraping/chromedriver.exe'
service = ChromeService(executable_path=chrome_driver_path)
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service)
website = "https://www.amazon.com"
driver.get(website)
```
If your underlying os is linux:
- You have to download chromedriver_linux64 from the ChromeDriver Download Location and untar it for usage.
- Additionally, if you are explicitly specifying the Chromedriver binary path you don't have to provide any extension for the executable binary, effectively i.e. chromedriver.
- While mentioning the Chromedriver binary path you have to use the single forward slash i.e. (/).
- So your effective line of code will be :
```
chrome_driver_path = '/Users/thangtruong/WebScraping/chromedriver'
service = ChromeService(executable_path=chrome_driver_path)
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service)
website = "https://www.amazon.com")
driver.get(website)
```
If your underlying os is macos:
- You have to download chromedriver_mac64 from the ChromeDriver Download Location and untar it for usage.
- Additionally, if you are explicitly specifying the Chromedriver binary path you don't have to provide any extension for the executable binary, effectively i.e. chromedriver.
- While mentioning the chromedriver binary path you have to use the single forward slash i.e. (/).
- So your effective line of code will be :
```
chrome_driver_path = '/Users/thangtruong/WebScraping/chromedriver'
service = ChromeService(executable_path=chrome_driver_path)
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service)
website = "https://www.amazon.com"
driver.get(website)
```

References

You can find a couple of detailed discussions in:

'Webdrivers' executable may have wrong permissions. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home

Selenium on MAC, Message: 'chromedriver' executable may have wrong permissions

The error says it all :

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

The error clearly mentions that the chromedriver which is getting detected have wrong permissions.

Solution

Download the latest chromedriver binary from ChromeDriver - WebDriver for Chrome and save it in your system.
Ensure that chromedriver binary have the required permissions.

While initiating the WebDriver and WebClient pass the argument executable_path along with the absolute path of the chromedriver binary as follows :

from selenium import webdriver

link = "https://accounts.google.com"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path='/path/to/chromedriver')
driver.get(link)

Reference

You can find a detailed relevant discussion in:

'Webdrivers' executable may have wrong permissions. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home

WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver.exe' executable may have wrong permissions using Google Colaboratory through Selenium Python

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The entire colab runs in a cloud VM. If you investigate the VM you will find that the current colab notebook is running on top of Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS.

So while using Selenium instead of mentioning the WebDriver variant along with the extension i.e. .exe you need to drop the extension. So effectively your code block will be:

import selenium
from selenium import webdriver
wd = webdriver.Chrome('/content/chromedriver')

Update

Incase you aren't sure where the ChromeDriver is getting downloaded you can move it to a known location and use it as follows:

!apt-get update
!apt install chromium-chromedriver
!cp /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromedriver /usr/bin
!pip install selenium

from selenium import webdriver
wd = webdriver.Chrome('/usr/bin/chromedriver')

References

You can find a couple of detailed relevant discussions in:

'Webdrivers' executable may have wrong permissions. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home
Selenium on MAC, Message: 'chromedriver' executable may have wrong permissions

WebDriverException: 'chromedriver.exe' executable may have wrong permissions

I've finally managed to figure out where I went wrong.

While I had the PATH and all correct - the Chromdriver.exe file was not in my Python/scripts folder.

After setting it there, re-placing the PATH, all works well!! :)

Chromedriver executable may have wrong permissions

Instead of configuring the chrome driver manually.You can use webdriver-manager, this will automatically download and set the path of the driver location.

You can get it from pip,

pip install webdriver-manager

Now you simply call ChromeDriverManager().install() to do it automatically. Instead of worrying about the path.

from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager

chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-extensions")
chrome_options.add_argument("--incognito")
browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=ChromeDriverManager().install(), chrome_options=chrome_options)

How to fix error Message: 'chromedriver.exe' executable may have wrong permissions

It might be because of platform and chromedriver format mismatch. For example windows requires chromedriver.exe while there are different formats for linux and mac. If you don't want to install through package manager, just download chromedriver from sites.
https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloads

If still you get error then Goto /usr/bin directory and you would need to run something like chmod a+x chromedriver to mark it executable.

Webdrivers' Executable May Have Wrong Permissions. Please See Https://Sites.Google.Com/A/Chromium.Org/Chromedriver/Home