DeprecationWarning: executable_path has been deprecated

# DeprecationWarning: executable_path has been deprecated

The Selenium warning "DeprecationWarning: executable_path has been deprecated please pass in a Service object" occurs because starting with Selenium version 4.0, the executable_path argument has been deprecated.

To resolve the issue, use an instance of the Service class instead.

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/home/borislav/Desktop/bobbyhadz_python/main.py:5: DeprecationWarning: executable_path has been deprecated, please pass in a Service object
  driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())

# Using the newer Service class in Selenium 4

Here is an example of using the newer Service class.

main.py

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import time
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager

driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service(ChromeDriverManager().install()))

driver.get("http://www.python.org")

time.sleep(2)

driver.close()

We passed an instance of the Service class to the Chrome class.

# Make sure you have the modules installed

You have to make sure that you have webdriver-manager and selenium installed to run the code snippet.

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pip install webdriver-manager selenium --upgrade

# 👇️ For Python 3
pip3 install webdriver-manager selenium --upgrade

# 👇️ If you get a permissions error
sudo pip3 install webdriver-manager selenium --upgrade

# 👇️ If you don't have pip in your PATH environment variable
python -m pip install webdriver-manager selenium --upgrade

# 👇️ For python 3
python3 -m pip install webdriver-manager selenium --upgrade

# 👇️ Using py alias
py -m pip install webdriver-manager selenium --upgrade

# 👇️ Alternative if you get a permissions error
pip install webdriver-manager selenium --user --upgrade

You can pass the Options object as a keyword argument when instantiating the Chrome class.

main.py

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import time

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager

options = Options()

options.add_argument("start-maximized")
options.add_argument("disable-extensions")

driver = webdriver.Chrome(
    service=Service(ChromeDriverManager().install()),
    options=options
)

driver.get("http://www.python.org")

time.sleep(2)

driver.close()

We created an options object and passed it as a keyword argument to the Chrome class when instantiating it.

Here is an example that uses the Service class with Chromium.

main.py

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import time
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
from webdriver_manager.core.utils import ChromeType

driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service(
    ChromeDriverManager(chrome_type=ChromeType.CHROMIUM).install()))

driver.get("http://www.python.org")

time.sleep(2)

driver.close()

And here is an example of using the Service class with Firefox.

main.py

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import time
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.service import Service
from webdriver_manager.firefox import GeckoDriverManager

driver = webdriver.Firefox(
    service=Service(GeckoDriverManager().install()))

driver.get("http://www.python.org")

time.sleep(2)

driver.close()

The code samples assume that you use Selenium version > 4.

You can check out other examples in the pypi page of webdriver-manager.

You can also pass a path to the Service class.

main.py

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import time

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service

driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service(
    r'C:/Users/bobbyhadz/Documents/chromedriver.exe'))

driver.get("http://www.python.org")

time.sleep(2)

driver.close()

Make sure to specify the correct path to your executable.

Here is a complete example of starting a Chrome instance, visiting Google and typing into the search field.

main.py

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import time

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service

from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager


driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service(ChromeDriverManager().install()))
driver.get("https://www.google.com")

time.sleep(4)

search_field = driver.find_element(By.NAME, 'q')

search_field.send_keys('bobbyhadz.com')

search_field.submit()

time.sleep(2)

driver.close()

If you need to check out some examples of how to locate elements on a page using Selenium, check out this section of the docs.

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DeprecationWarning: executable_path has been deprecated