This is embarrassing to ask because it seems like something with so slim chance of error. I wouldn't think this would be difficult, but I've been plugging away at this for almost 3 hours now and it's giving me a headache. I've read several dozen stackoverflow threads and Google threads.
I've installed PhantomJS, added it to my System Variables PATH, and it works properly in the command line. I also installed Selenium earlier with easy_install.
The error I get is:
__init__ C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium-2.39.0-py2.7.egg\selenium\webdriver\phantomjs\webdriver.py 50
start C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium-2.39.0-py2.7.egg\selenium\webdriver\phantomjs\service.py 66
WebDriverException: Message: 'Unable to start phantomjs with ghostdriver.' ; Screenshot: available via screen
Here's my code:
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.PhantomJS(executable_path="C:\Python27\misc\phantomjs\phantomjs.exe")
I also tried:
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.PhantomJS()
I get the same error message. This has to be something simple that I'm doing wrong. I'd appreciate any comments or answers.
Windows 7 64 bit Python 2.7
This may have been a version issue for you, but since I just went through setting this up on my Windows 7 PC without issues I'm going to share my 'journey' here.
First of, I'm more used to the Mac/Linux Terminal and having the python package manager pip
at my disposal is essential to me. After installing Python 2.7.8 and adding ;c:\Python27
to my PATH I noticed that pip
isn't included with Python versions lower than 2.7.9, so I had to add it myself. Afterwards I added ;c:\Python27\Scripts
to my PATH.
After that fetching the python package selenium
was as easy as typing the following into the cmd:
pip install selenium
Then I downloaded the phantomjs-1.9.7-windows.zip
from here, unzipped it and placed it here:
C:\Python27\misc\phantomjs-1.9.7-windows\phantomjs.exe
From there I had a working Python 2.7/Selenium Webdriver/PhantomJS example for Windows 7.
from selenium import webdriver
import os
phantomjs_path = "C:\Python27\misc\phantomjs-1.9.7-windows\phantomjs.exe"
browser = webdriver.PhantomJS(executable_path=phantomjs_path, service_log_path=os.path.devnull)
browser.set_window_size(1400, 1000)
browser.get("https://stackoverflow.com/")
print browser.title
Note that I added the argument service_log_path=os.path.devnull
to the function webdriver.PhantomJS()
to prevent PhantomJS from creating a ghostdriver.log in the directory of the python file being executed.