InvalidArgumentException: Message: binary is not a Firefox executable error using GeckoDriver Firefox Selenium and Python
This error message...
selenium.common.exceptions.InvalidArgumentException: Message: binary is not a Firefox executable
...implies that the binary file which you have passed as an argument to FirefoxBinary()
isn't a valid firefox executable.
You seem to have passed the absolute path of the geckodriver.exe
as an argument to FirefoxBinary()
which is causing the error.
Solution
Instead of the geckodriver.exe
you need to pass the absolute path of the firefox.exe
. Moreover, firefox_options
is deprecated now and you have to use options
and you can use the following solution:
from selenium import webdriverfrom selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Optionsfrom selenium.webdriver.firefox.firefox_binary import FirefoxBinaryoptions = Options()options.binary = FirefoxBinary(r'C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe')options.set_preference("browser.download.folderList",2)options.set_preference("browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting", False)options.set_preference("browser.download.dir","/Data")options.set_preference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk", "application/octet-stream,application/vnd.ms-excel")driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=r'C:/Users/Mack/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python38-32/geckodriver-v0.27.0-win64/geckodriver.exe', options=options)
References
You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussion in:
- SessionNotCreatedException: Message: Expected browser binary location, but unable to find binary in default location, no 'moz:firefoxOptions.binary'
- Expected browser binary location, but unable to find binary in default location, no 'moz:firefoxOptions.binary' capability provided
- Expected browser binary location, but unable to find binary in default location, no 'moz:firefoxOptions.binary' capability provided using GeckoDriver
Change the binary to whatever firefox.exe you get and your executable path to your geckodriver.
options = Options()binary = r'C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe'options.set_preference("browser.download.folderList",2)options.set_preference("browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting", False)options.set_preference("browser.download.dir","/Data")options.set_preference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk", "application/octet-stream,application/vnd.ms-excel")options.binary = binarydriver = webdriver.Firefox(r'C:/Users/Mack/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python38-32/geckodriver-v0.27.0-win64/geckodriver.exe',options=options)
It seems that when using Firefox Portable, the FirefoxPortable.exe file is not recognized, instead, when creating binary path, point to firefox.exe file found under "FirefoxPortable\App\firefox64" (in my case). The above is valid if your Gecko driver works - so the first few lines of output (before the exception) look something like this:
[RemoteTestNG] detected TestNG version 7.3.01611580278948 geckodriver INFO Listening on 127.0.0.1:18391
This issue appeared for me after the problem described here:Cannot find firefox binary in PATH. Make sure firefox is installedthus, they are not the same issue - as presented in some stack comments.
good luck!