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

Question

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

Answer 1

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')