CHROMEDRIVER_CHROME_BINARY TypeError: Binary Location Must be a String

[jbms]

CHROMEDRIVER_CHROME_BINARY TypeError: Binary Location Must be a String

[paulirish]

I got passed this with pip install -Iv selenium==4.2.0

[KamarajuKusumanchi]

Thanks @paulirish . I am able to get past this error with selenium 4.2.0 . But it looks like the schwab scraper is broken. It opens the chrome window, enters the password but it is not able to login. It does not work even if I manually enter the password. Since it is a different issue, I will open another issue for it.

The original environment file

 % cat env_test_finance-dl.yml
name: test_finance-dl
channels:
  - defaults
dependencies:
  - python=3.12
  - pip
  - pip:
    - git+https://github.com/jbms/finance-dl

is pulling

 % conda list "^python$|selenium|chromedriver-binary" -n test_finance-dl   
# packages in environment at /opt/rajulocal/miniconda3/envs/test_finance-dl:
#
# Name                    Version                   Build  Channel
chromedriver-binary       122.0.6211.0.0           pypi_0    pypi
python                    3.12.0               h996f2a0_0  
selenium                  4.16.0                   pypi_0    pypi
selenium-requests         2.0.3                    pypi_0    pypi

The error does not show up with

 % cat env_test_finance-dl_v2.yml
name: test_finance-dl_v2
channels:
  - defaults
dependencies:
  - python=3.12
  - pip
  - pip:
    - selenium==4.2.0
    - chromedriver-binary==120.*
    - git+https://github.com/jbms/finance-dl

which is pulling

 % conda list "^python$|selenium|chromedriver-binary" -n test_finance-dl_v2
# packages in environment at /opt/rajulocal/miniconda3/envs/test_finance-dl_v2:
#
# Name                    Version                   Build  Channel
chromedriver-binary       120.0.6099.109.0          pypi_0    pypi
python                    3.12.0               h996f2a0_0  
selenium                  4.2.0                    pypi_0    pypi
selenium-requests         1.4.1                    pypi_0    pypi

I am specifying the chromedriver-binary version in the environment file since it has to match with my chrome's version.

 % dpkg -l google-chrome-stable                                            
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                 Version          Architecture Description
+++-====================-================-============-=================================
ii  google-chrome-stable 120.0.6099.199-1 amd64        The web browser from Google

The latest version of selenium is 4.16.0 (released on 2023-12-06 as per https://pypi.org/project/selenium/#history). It would be nice if finance-dl can support the latest version. If that is not possible, the correct selenium version should be specified in the dependencies.