chromedriver executable is in PATH but still getting error

Question

I'm trying to use selenium but I'm getting the error

'chromedriver' executable needs to be in PATH.

But I know for a fact that it's in PATH. I have the exe located in C:\WebDriver\bin. It's been added to my system variables System variables image. Running chromedriver in the command prompt successfully returns

Starting ChromeDriver 89.0.4389.23 (61b08ee2c50024bab004e48d2b1b083cdbdac579-refs/branch-heads/4389@{#294}) on port 9515
Only local connections are allowed.
Please see https://chromedriver.chromium.org/security-considerations for suggestions on keeping ChromeDriver safe.
ChromeDriver was started successfully.

I've restarted my computer. I tried directly specifying the executable_path

driver = Chrome(executable_path=r"C:\WebDriver\bin\chromedriver.exe")

I used ProcessMonitor if anyone can make sense of these logs (filter: "path contains chromedriver")

Update:

Using webdriver-manager

from selenium import webdriver    
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())

Gave me the error

ValueError: Could not get version for Chrome with this command: google-chrome --version || google-chrome-stable --version

Answer 1

Try this :

from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\WebDriver\bin\chromedriver.exe')

Answer 2

Try to use webdriver-manager package:

pip install webdriver-manager

the code should look like this:

from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())

The module download driver automatically and store it at known path for selenium. It will solve all of kinda troubles with driver path