Error NotAValidDirectory The directory name is invalid C Users Kartik geckodriver exe

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I am trying to initialize Firefox driver on Python Selenium Webdriver using following code:

driver = webdriver.Firefox('C:\\Users\\Kartik\\geckodriver.exe')

Now this is showing the following error:

Error: NotAValidDirectory:: The directory name is invalid: 'C:\\Users\\Kartik\\geckodriver.exe'

I tried using single forward slashes in the driver path, but that's also causing the following problem:

File "C:\Users\Kartik\eclipse-workspace\pythonDemo\python_demo_package\AmazonLogin.py", line 17
    driver = webdriver.Firefox('C:\Users\Kartik\geckodriver.exe')
                              ^
SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape

Jul 31, 2019 in Selenium by Kartik

edited Jul 31, 2019 4,203 views

1 answer to this question.

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Hey Kartik, Firefox requires gecko driver to launch the browser and to do the same, we need to use executable path to set the driver path in Python Webdriver. Try using following piece of code to resolve your issue:

driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=r"C:\Users\Anvi_R\Downloads\ExtractedFiles\geckodriver.exe")
driver.implicitly_wait(2)
driver.maximize_window()

driver.get('https://www.gmail.com')
answered Jul 31, 2019 by Anvi
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