selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'library' executable may have wrong permissions for ChromeDriver

Question

I want to use the chrome webdriver to connect to "https://www.google.com". below is the code.

from selenium import webdriver  
import time  

driver = webdriver.Chrome("C:\\Users\\faisal\\library")  
driver.set_page_load_timeout(10)  
driver.get("https://www.google.com")  
driver.find_element_by_name("q").send_keys(" automation by name ")  
driver.find_element_by_name("blink").click()  
time.sleep(5)  
driver.close()  

When I run the test, the following error message is displayed.Its a permission problem

C:\Users\faisal\PycharmProjects\firstSeleniumTest2\venv\Scripts\python.exe C:/Users/faisal/PycharmProjects/firstSeleniumTest2/test.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\faisal\PycharmProjects\firstSeleniumTest2\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 76, in start
    stdin=PIPE)
  File "C:\Python\lib\subprocess.py", line 709, in __init__
    restore_signals, start_new_session)
  File "C:\Python\lib\subprocess.py", line 997, in _execute_child
    startupinfo)
PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/faisal/PycharmProjects/firstSeleniumTest2/test.py", line 4, in <module>
    driver = webdriver.Chrome("C:\\Users\\faisal\\library")
  File "C:\Users\faisal\PycharmProjects\firstSeleniumTest2\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py", line 68, in __init__
    self.service.start()
  File "C:\Users\faisal\PycharmProjects\firstSeleniumTest2\venv\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py", line 88, in start
    os.path.basename(self.path), self.start_error_message)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'library' executable may have wrong permissions. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home


Process finished with exit code 1

Answer 1

C:\Users\faisal\library is not the correct path to chromedriver. Give the actual path to your chromedriver file.