Not able to export image using bokeh/holoviews

Question

I initially had installed :-

conda install selenium geckodriver firefox -c conda-forge from bokeh documentation page on anaconda prompt and I was able to export image as png & open image as URL on Internet Explorer. All of a sudden today I get this error :-

RuntimeError: Neither firefox and geckodriver nor a variant of chromium browser and chromedriver are available on system PATH. You can install the former with 'conda install -c conda-forge firefox geckodriver'. on Spyder I checked the path and geckodriver is very much in the path it was initially.(`C:\Users\user1\AppData\Local\conda\conda\pkgs\geckodriver-0.27.0-h33f27b4_0\Scripts\geckodriver.exe')

I'm not able to understand why suddenly it stopped working, tried a few fixes from other SO answers like installing chromium driver :- conda install -c conda-forge python-chromedriver-binary in anaconda prompt

`from selenium.webdriver import Chrome,ChromeOptions
 options=ChromeOptions()
 options.add_argument('--headless')
my_driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=r'C:\Users\user1\AppData\Local\conda\conda\pkgs\python-chromedriver-binary-87.0.4280.20.0-py38h32f6830_0\Lib\site-packages\chromedriver_binary\chromedriver.exe',options=options)`

This gives me :-

SessionNotCreatedException: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 87 Current browser version is 83.0.4103.116 with binary path C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe error.

I am not allowed to manually download a driver from the website to suit the version/update chrome browser. So chrome driver is ruled out. I have only IE and Chrome browsers installed,I want to know why my initial method which opens image in IE is not working anymore,and how to make it work again.

P.S :- I tried updating geckodriver (ran the same conda install selenium geckodriver firefox -c conda-forge again and geckodriver was updated )and Selenium but it didn't fix the issue.

Answer 1

The Chrome procedure you used worked for me by using python not on path that is regular pip install and your ide of choice.