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#KALI LINUX HOW TO INSTALL SELENIUM DRIVER#
#KALI LINUX HOW TO INSTALL SELENIUM CODE#

In order to locate elements on a web page we use ‘ find_element’ method.

#KALI LINUX HOW TO INSTALL SELENIUM CODE#

To copy XPath, right click on highlighted source code on source page.

If we do not have any one of the above mentioned attributes then we can also select element using ‘ XPath’.

We can locate ‘ Email or Phone’ element by using any one of the above attributes.

class= “inputtext login_form_input_box”.

It can be seen that, we have the following attributes for selected element This element will by selected and source code of this element is highlighted on source page as displayed below.

Move the arrow on ‘ Email or Phone’ field and click.

Now press ‘ Ctrl+Shift+C’ or click on symbol present on the top left corner of the source page.

First of all, press the F12 A source page opens in the right side of the window as displayed below.

Selenium should be able to spawn firefox normally once that's done.We can find specific element on a web page by following method. The specific step by step process (for ubuntu) can be found in this stackoverflow answer launch selenium from python on ubuntu

Modify your code to work with the new Marionette webdriver.

Make sure that your OS can find the file in its systempath.If however you want your code to work with the most recent release of Firefox, then you choose option #2 and the basic gist of how to accomplish that is as follows: If you choose option #1, then simply find a way to downgrade to Firefox 46.

#KALI LINUX HOW TO INSTALL SELENIUM DRIVER#

Download the new Marionette driver and adapt your code to work with it.

You can learn more about Marionette in the link I provided above. You now have to download the new Marionette driver, and modify your code a bit to make it work with this new driver. This used to work for Firefox 46, and I'm assuming older versions, however it no longer works because support for Firefox Webdriver has now been dropped. If you're using Firefox 47 or newer, then starting up Firefox browser with a simple browser = webdriver.Firefox() just isn't going to work. If you're looking for where to downlad the new 'firefoxdriver' (its called the Marionette Driver, but the file is called geckodriver), you'll have to download the file directly from its github release page: (I suggest downloading v0.9.0, since v0.10.0 hasn't worked for me). My hypothesis as to why it's not working:

You're trying to spawn an instance of firefox, through selenium, but it's not working. That answers the question, I believe, however I'd like to try to address the issue you're having. It's described here:, and it's made available here But first, to answer the question as to where you can download firefoxdriver, my answer would be maybe firefoxdriver is not available, because the file is now called geckodriver, but it's really called Marionette Driver. I'm not certain if this will fix the issue you're having, but you can give it a try. I did searching for packages name firefoxdriver in Ubuntu repositories but none exist.Īny help with installing the webdrivers appreciated! t_preference("", True)īrowser = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=getProfile())įile "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox /webdriver.py", line 77, in initįile "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/extension_connection.py", line 47, in initįile "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/firefox_profile.py", line 91, in add_extensionįile "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/firefox_profile.py", line 251, in _install_extensionĬompressed_file = zipfile.ZipFile(addon, 'r')įile "/usr/lib/python3.5/zipfile.py", line 1009, in initįileNotFoundError: No such file or directory: '/usr/lib /firefoxdriver/webdriver.xpi' When I try to run the following python code, #! /usr/bin/python3.5

The following NEW packages will be installed: While installing, got a message: Suggested packages: I installed python3-selenium apt package on Ubuntu 16.04.