The Selenium Chromedriver Solution (Python and R)

[@evanglaser6517]

Hey man I have been chasing down your rabbit hole of R Selenium videos, and I will stop to drop a comment to say thank you on this one. Feels like you had an error solution for every problem I ran into one after another, and now I am set to actually start using Selenium in R. Very much so appreciate your easy to understand tutorials!

[@robertc2121]

Thank you so much Samer, u are the only resource that I can find who can set up selenium with R and make it accessible. Thank you so much

[@olexiypukhov-KT]

I just fixed this earlier today. Nice to see a general solution availiable.

[@chrismeathe]

I spent hours prior to finding this video and going around in circles. This video was perfect, thanks heaps.

[@BenjaminBösch-c9l]

You are my hero.

[@babyroo555]

OMG and you saved me, yet again :) thank you kind Sir :)

[@ahmed007Jaber]

thank you for this Samer, you are a life saver!

[@joao_paiva]

Awesome!!

[@MikeMastroianni-v3p]

Very helpful Samer, thank you very much! If you are inclined, doing the same for Firefox and the gecko driver would also be a great add (if you have not already). I would like to use the geckodriver as an option, but have not been able to create an R function that allows me to change its profile to define specific download locations for a project. Thanks very much again, using Rselenium is quite useful in my work.

[@abdulelah0alkhaldy]

Thanks that fixed the connection refused issue

[@sagarprabhu4215]

I have an issue connecting selenium using python. Here, My chromedriver installed version is 117.0.5938.92; chrome version is 117.0.5938.132 and selenium version is 4.13.0. But I am facing issue finding my location for all the chromedrivers previously installed? How can we check the location in Python as you have show in R

[@Raqi18]

Hi. I did all the steps you said for R-Studio. And installed the win64 chromedriver Version: 119.0.6045.105 (r1204232) However, my current Chrome version is 119.0.6045.124 (Official Build) (64-bit) (cohort: Stable). I deleted the License too! But I still got an error. Do you have any idea why the error keeps happening? even if I deleted the License already? Thank you! Error in (function (url, platform, history, appname, platformregex = platform, : unused argument (fileregex = "\\.(gz|zip)$")

[@carmentello5479]

hey there! thanks you for your videos, us the beginners are greatfull for such clear tutorials. i'm having some trouble finding my drivers version: whenever I run the chrome() function (or the rsDriver() function you use in another Selenium tutorial) I get this error: > chrome(retcommand = T,verbose = F,check = F) Error: C:\Users\Usuario\AppData\Local/binman/binman_chromedriver app directory not found. i'm guessing there's some trouble with the directory of the driver because of the slash/backslash mix it returns, also tried to find (by hand on my computer) any "binman" folder after the "C:\Users\Usuario\AppData\Local" directory with no success. any ideas of what might be going on here? thank you very much!

[@SamerHijjazi]

My pleasure! You'll have to run the selenium() command first, without passing any arguments inside of it. This function also comes from the wdman library. Doing so will create the binman folder on your machine.

[@carmentello5479]

@@SamerHijjazi such a fast response, you're the best. thanks!!

[@Giselle-y8v]

I'm facing an issue where the only chromedriver version available for download is 117.0.5938.92 and my chrome version is 116. Do you know how I can download the 116 version? p.s. Thanks for the tutorials, love them! I really want to learn how to use Rselenium and this really helps.

[@SamerHijjazi]

Thank you for the feedback. This might not be the best way, but it could work for you. You can look for the URL for version 116 using the JSON endpoints offered on the Chrome Testing site. Use the following link to access the JSON file. Then you can do a Ctrl + F to locate version 116, and download the appropriate link for your operating system. googlechromelabs.github.io/chrome-for-testing/known-good-versions-with-downloads.json

[@АртурПечёрских-ц7л]

​@@SamerHijjazi I faced the same issue as the earlier commentator, though your solution worked perfectly fine. Thank you, I struggled with that for the whole Sunday!

[@tarasst6887]

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