DeprecationWarning: executable_path has been deprecated selenium python

I am using sublime to code python scripts. The following code is for selenium in python to install the driver automatically by using the webdriver_manager package

# pip install webdriver-manager
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())
driver.maximize_window()

#s=Service(path)
#driver=webdriver.Chrome(service=s)
driver.get('https://www.google.com')
driver.find_element(By.NAME, 'q').send_keys('Yasser Khalil')

The code works fine but I got a warning like that

Demo.py:7: DeprecationWarning: executable_path has been deprecated, please pass in a Service object
  driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())

How to fix such a bug?

Answers:

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Method 1

This error message…

DeprecationWarning: executable_path has been deprecated, please pass in a Service object

…implies that the key executable_path will be deprecated in the upcoming releases.

This change is inline with the Selenium 4.0 Beta 1 changelog which mentions:

Deprecate all but Options and Service arguments in driver instantiation. (#9125,#9128)

Solution

With selenium4 as the key executable_path is deprecated you have to use an instance of the Service() class along with ChromeDriverManager().install() command as discussed below.

Pre-requisites

Ensure that:

• Selenium is upgraded to v4.0.0

  pip3 install -U selenium

• Webdriver Manager for Python is installed

  pip3 install webdriver-manager

You can find a detailed discussion on installing Webdriver Manager for Python in ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘webdriver_manager’ error even after installing webdrivermanager

Selenium v4 compatible Code Block

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager

driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service(ChromeDriverManager().install()))
driver.get("https://www.google.com")

Console Output:

[WDM] - ====== WebDriver manager ======
[WDM] - Current google-chrome version is 96.0.4664
[WDM] - Get LATEST driver version for 96.0.4664
[WDM] - Driver [C:UsersAdmin.wdmdriverschromedriverwin3296.0.4664.45chromedriver.exe] found in cache

You can find a detailed discussion on installing Webdriver Manager for Python in Selenium ChromeDriver issue using Webdriver Manager for Python

Incase you want to pass the Options() object you can use:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager

options = Options()
options.add_argument("start-maximized")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service(ChromeDriverManager().install()), options=options)
driver.get("https://www.google.com")

TL; DR

You can find the relevant Bug Report/Pull Request in:

• Bug Report: deprecate all but Options and Service arguments in driver instantiation
• Pull Request: deprecate all but Options and Service arguments in driver instantiation

Method 2

I could figure it out

# pip install webdriver-manager
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By

s=Service(ChromeDriverManager().install())
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=s)
driver.maximize_window()
driver.get('https://www.google.com')
driver.find_element(By.NAME, 'q').send_keys('Yasser Khalil')

Method 3

This works for me

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
ser = Service("C:\chromedriver.exe")
op = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
s = webdriver.Chrome(service=ser, options=op)

Method 4

I found this deprecation issue is appearing on Selenium, Pip and Python updates. so simply just change :

before:

from selenium import webdriver
chrome_driver_path = 'C:/Users/Morteza/Documents/Dev/chromedriver.exe'
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=chrome_driver_path)

url = "https://www.google.com"
driver.get(url)

after:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service

s=Service('C:/Users/Morteza/Documents/Dev/chromedriver.exe')
browser = webdriver.Chrome(service=s)
url='https://www.google.com'
browser.get(url)

Method 5

Simplest option with Chrome auto-installer:

from selenium import webdriver    
import chromedriver_autoinstaller
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service

chromedriver_autoinstaller.install()
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service())

Method 6

All the above answers refer to Chrome, adding the one for Firefox

Install:

pip install webdriver-manager

Code:

from selenium.webdriver.firefox.service import Service
from webdriver_manager.firefox import GeckoDriverManager
driver = webdriver.Firefox(service=Service(executable_path=GeckoDriverManager().install()))

Reference: https://github.com/SergeyPirogov/webdriver_manager/issues/262#issuecomment-955197860

Method 7

if you are using any IDE like PyCharm install webdriver-manager package of that IDE as how do install for selenium package

Method 8

You can create an instance of ChromeOptions, which has convenient methods for setting ChromeDriver-specific capabilities. You can then pass the ChromeOptions object into the ChromeDriver constructor:

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();

options.addExtensions(new File("/path/to/extension.crx"));

ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

Since Selenium version 3.6.0, the ChromeOptions class in Java also implements the Capabilities interface, allowing you to specify other WebDriver capabilities not specific to ChromeDriver.

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();

// Add the WebDriver proxy capability.

Proxy proxy = new Proxy();

proxy.setHttpProxy("myhttpproxy:3337");

options.setCapability("proxy", proxy);

// Add a ChromeDriver-specific capability.

options.addExtensions(new File("/path/to/extension.crx"));

ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

Method 9

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
service_obj = Service("WebDrivers_pathchromedriver.exe")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service_obj)
driver.get("https://www.google.com")

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