Set chrome browser binary through chromedriver in Python

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I used Selenium with Python Chrome webdriver. In my code I used:

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path = PATH_TO_WEBDRIVER)

to point the webdriver to the webdriver executable. Is there a way to point webdriver to the Chrome Browser binaries?

In https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/capabilities they have the following (which I assume it what I'm looking for):

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.setBinary("/path/to/other/chrome/binary");

Anyone has an example for Python?

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4 Answers

Thanks a lot I was struggling with this for 2.5 hours as I did not know how to set the Chrome Executable path in Python. Works now

options = Options()
options.binary_location = "C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options, executable_path="C:/Utility/BrowserDrivers/chromedriver.exe", )
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Is there a way to point webdriver to the Chrome Browser binaries?

As others have already stated, use binary_location. However, the location of Chrome moves around depending on the the platform. Fedora and Ubuntu use different locations. So you may want to use something like:

def get_chrome():
    if os.path.isfile('/usr/bin/chromium-browser'):
        return '/usr/bin/chromium-browser'
    elif os.path.isfile('/usr/bin/chromium'):
        return '/usr/bin/chromium'
    elif os.path.isfile('/usr/bin/chrome'):
        return '/usr/bin/chrome'
    elif os.path.isfile('/usr/bin/google-chrome'):
        return '/usr/bin/google-chrome'
    else:
        return None

And then:

if version.parse(selenium.__version__) >= version.parse("3.0"):
    opts = Options()
    opts.binary_location = get_chrome()
    opts.add_argument('--headless')
    opts.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
    opts.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')

    driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=opts)
    driver.maximize_window()
else:
    opts = Options()
    opts.headless = True
    opts.binary_location = get_chrome()

    driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=opts)
    driver.maximize_window()

agent = driver.execute_script('return navigator.userAgent')
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