This is embarrassing to ask because it seems like something with so slim chance of error. I wouldn't think this would be difficult, but I've been plugging away at this for almost 3 hours now and it's giving me a headache. I've read several dozen stackoverflow threads and Google threads.
I've installed PhantomJS, added it to my System Variables PATH, and it works properly in the command line. I also installed Selenium earlier with easy_install.
The error I get is:
__init__ C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium-2.39.0-py2.7.egg\selenium\webdriver\phantomjs\webdriver.py 50
start C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium-2.39.0-py2.7.egg\selenium\webdriver\phantomjs\service.py 66
WebDriverException: Message: 'Unable to start phantomjs with ghostdriver.' ; Screenshot: available via screen
Here's my code:
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.PhantomJS(executable_path="C:\Python27\misc\phantomjs\phantomjs.exe")
I also tried:
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.PhantomJS()
I get the same error message. This has to be something simple that I'm doing wrong. I'd appreciate any comments or answers.
Windows 7 64 bit
Python 2.7
This may have been a version issue for you, but since I just went through setting this up on my Windows 7 PC without issues I'm going to share my 'journey' here.
First of, I'm more used to the Mac/Linux Terminal and having the python package manager pip
at my disposal is essential to me. After installing Python 2.7.8 and adding ;c:\Python27
to my PATH I noticed that pip
isn't included with Python versions lower than 2.7.9, so I had to add it myself. Afterwards I added ;c:\Python27\Scripts
to my PATH.
After that fetching the python package selenium
was as easy as typing the following into the cmd:
pip install selenium
Then I downloaded the phantomjs-1.9.7-windows.zip
from here, unzipped it and placed it here:
C:\Python27\misc\phantomjs-1.9.7-windows\phantomjs.exe
From there I had a working Python 2.7/Selenium Webdriver/PhantomJS example for Windows 7.
from selenium import webdriver
import os
phantomjs_path = "C:\Python27\misc\phantomjs-1.9.7-windows\phantomjs.exe"
browser = webdriver.PhantomJS(executable_path=phantomjs_path, service_log_path=os.path.devnull)
browser.set_window_size(1400, 1000)
browser.get("https://stackoverflow.com/")
print browser.title
Note that I added the argument service_log_path=os.path.devnull
to the function webdriver.PhantomJS()
to prevent PhantomJS from creating a ghostdriver.log in the directory of the python file being executed.
I had the same problem running Python 3.4 on Windows Server 2012 R2. PhantomJS was failing to create the ghostdriver.log file. I followed these steps that fixed it for me:
- Made sure phantomjs.exe was not showing "Blocked" on the File Properties|Security tab, and ran it as standalone app to confirm.
- Deleted an old copy of the ghostdriver.log file that was in the same directory.
Ran python REPL from the console while checking to see if the code that instantiated the driver was getting called successfully.
browser = webdriver.PhantomJS(executable_path='phantomjs.exe', desired_capabilities=argdc, service_args=svc_args)
Do you any other file or directory with a same name , or a file of coding (like .. phantomjs.py) which you have named same as phantomjs
is so then rename it to something else. i hope it works