How to Install Selenium Python into a Virtual Environment (venv) and setup VSCode / ChromeDriver

This video tutorial shows how to:
- Install Python (the latest version at the time of recording) on Windows.
- Create a virtual Python environment with venv. A virtual environment allows us to isolate libraries, like Selenium, depending on project needs.
- Install the Selenium Python library into the new virtual environment.
- Install Python extensions in VSCode. Particularly, the Jupyter Notebook extension. Jupyter Notebook allows Python code to run in blocks, rather than having to rerun the whole script after every code change.
- Run a quick test in VSCode to launch a browser and go to a test URL.
With the above steps complete, we are prepared for browser automation, web application testing automation, and web scraping.

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[kirild]

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[drewvandenbosch]

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[qixinxiao]

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[duarfeht]

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[duarfeht]

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[mr.k]

my code still doesn't work, i have this error:
AttributeError Traceback (most recent call last)
File API\.venv\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\driver_finder.py:38, in DriverFinder.get_path(service, options)
37 try:
---> 38 path = if path is None else path
39 except Exception as err:

File API\.venv\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\selenium_manager.py:76, in SeleniumManager.driver_location(self, options)
69 """Determines the path of the correct driver.
70
71 :Args:
72 - browser: which browser to get the driver path for.
73 :Returns: The driver path to use
74 """
---> 76 browser =
78 args = [str(self.get_binary()), "--browser", browser]

AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'capabilities'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

AttributeError Traceback (most recent call last)
API\selenium_text.ipynb Cell 1 line 3
1 from selenium import webdriver
2 API\chromedriver.exe"
...
---> 40 msg = f"Unable to obtain driver for using Selenium Manager."
41 raise NoSuchDriverException(msg) from err
43 if path is None or not Path(path).is_file():

AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'capabilities'

[burhankiran]

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