WebDriverException: Message: 'PATH TO CHROME DRIVER' executable needs to be in PATH

[Led_Zeppelin]

When I run the following code, I get this error. I am not sure what it means or how to correct this error.

import numpy as np
from datetime import datetime
import smtplib
from selenium import webdriver
import os

#For Prediction
from sklearn.linear_model import LinearRegression
from sklearn.model_selection import cross_validate
from sklearn import preprocessing

#For Stock Data
from iexfinance.stocks import get_historical_data

def getStocks(n):
    #Navigating to the Yahoo stock screener
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(
        'PATH TO CHROME DRIVER')
    url = "https://finance.yahoo.com/screener/predefined/aggressive_small_caps?offset=0&count=202"
    driver.get(url)

    #Creating a stock list and iterating through the ticker names on the stock screener list
    stock_list = []
    n += 1
    for i in range(1, n):
        ticker = driver.find_element_by_xpath(
            '//*[@id = "scr-res-table"]/div[2]/table/tbody/tr[' + str(i) + ']/td[1]/a')
        stock_list.append(ticker.text)
    driver.quit()
    
    #Using the stock list to predict the future price of the stock a specificed amount of days
    number = 0
    for i in stock_list:
        print("Number: " + str(number))
        try:
            predictData(i, 5)
        except:
            print("Stock: " + i + " was not predicted")
        number += 1

def sendMessage(text):
    # If you're using Gmail to send the message, you might need to 
    # go into the security settings of your email account and 
    # enable the "Allow less secure apps" option 
    username = "EMAIL"
    password = "PASSWORD"

    vtext = "[email protected]"
    message = text

    msg = """From: %s
    To: %s
    %s""" % (username, vtext, message)

    server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
    server.starttls()
    server.login(username, password)
    server.sendmail(username, vtext, msg)
    server.quit()

    print('Sent')

def predictData(stock, days):
    print(stock)

    start = datetime(2017, 1, 1)
    end = datetime.now()

    #Outputting the Historical data into a .csv for later use
    df = get_historical_data(stock, start=start, end=end, output_format='pandas')
    if os.path.exists('./Exports'):
        csv_name = ('Exports/' + stock + '_Export.csv')
    else:
        os.mkdir("Exports")
        csv_name = ('Exports/' + stock + '_Export.csv')
    df.to_csv(csv_name)
    df['prediction'] = df['close'].shift(-1)
    df.dropna(inplace=True)

    forecast_time = int(days)

    #Predicting the Stock price in the future
    X = np.array(df.drop(['prediction'], 1))
    Y = np.array(df['prediction'])
    X = preprocessing.scale(X)
    X_prediction = X[-forecast_time:]
    X_train, Y_train, Y_test = cross_validation.train_test_split(
        X, Y, test_size=0.5)

    #Performing the Regression on the training data
    clf = LinearRegression()
    clf.fit(X_train, Y_train)
    prediction = (clf.predict(X_prediction))

    last_row = df.tail(1)
    print(last_row['close'])

    #Sending the SMS if the predicted price of the stock is at least 1 greater than the previous closing price
    if (float(prediction[4]) > (float(last_row['close'])) + 1):
        output = ("\n\nStock:" + str(stock) + "\nPrior Close:\n" + str(last_row['close']) + "\n\nPrediction in 1 Day: " + str(
            prediction[0]) + "\nPrediction in 5 Days: " + str(prediction[4]))
        sendMessage(output)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    getStocks(200)

This when run on a Windows 10 machine produces the error.

Output:
FileNotFoundError                         Traceback (most recent call last)
~\miniconda3\envs\tensorflow-2.1\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py in start(self)
     75                                             stderr=self.log_file,
---> 76                                             stdin=PIPE)
     77         except TypeError:

~\miniconda3\envs\tensorflow-2.1\lib\subprocess.py in __init__(self, args, bufsize, executable, stdin, stdout, stderr, preexec_fn, close_fds, shell, cwd, env, universal_newlines, startupinfo, creationflags, restore_signals, start_new_session, pass_fds, encoding, errors, text)
    799                                 errread, errwrite,
--> 800                                 restore_signals, start_new_session)
    801         except:

~\miniconda3\envs\tensorflow-2.1\lib\subprocess.py in _execute_child(self, args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds, pass_fds, cwd, env, startupinfo, creationflags, shell, p2cread, p2cwrite, c2pread, c2pwrite, errread, errwrite, unused_restore_signals, unused_start_new_session)
   1206                                          os.fspath(cwd) if cwd is not None else None,
-> 1207                                          startupinfo)
   1208             finally:

FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

WebDriverException                        Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-1-d737cd6c0180> in <module>
    103 
    104 if __name__ == '__main__':
--> 105     getStocks(200)

<ipython-input-1-d737cd6c0180> in getStocks(n)
     16     #Navigating to the Yahoo stock screener
     17     driver = webdriver.Chrome(
---> 18         'PATH TO CHROME DRIVER')
     19     url = "https://finance.yahoo.com/screener/predefined/aggressive_small_caps?offset=0&count=202"
     20     driver.get(url)

~\miniconda3\envs\tensorflow-2.1\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py in __init__(self, executable_path, port, options, service_args, desired_capabilities, service_log_path, chrome_options, keep_alive)
     71             service_args=service_args,
     72             log_path=service_log_path)
---> 73         self.service.start()
     74 
     75         try:

~\miniconda3\envs\tensorflow-2.1\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\common\service.py in start(self)
     81                 raise WebDriverException(
     82                     "'%s' executable needs to be in PATH. %s" % (
---> 83                         os.path.basename(self.path), self.start_error_message)
     84                 )
     85             elif err.errno == errno.EACCES:

WebDriverException: Message: 'PATH TO CHROME DRIVER' executable needs to be in PATH. Please see https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/home

I take it that I must download and install a new Chromedriver for Windows 10 (I choose the stable version ) and then put it in my path.

Is that all. I must do? When was this changed? I have similar software before, but never had this situation.

Any help appreciated.

Respectfully,

LZ

[Yoriz]

Try whats in this thread https://python-forum.io/thread-25656-pos...#pid109722