not working

[JDuggal760]

Hi! Great idea. For some reason it doesn't work, do I have to run it on my computer locally
I was using google colab and this was one issue I kept running into. I inputted my username and my password as well

[Ashwin-op]

Hi @JDuggal760 !

You actually have to run it like !python3 GitHub-Follow-Bot/follow_bot.py. Also, there will be some code changes required if you wish to run in Google Colab (for ex: adding a --headless flag, etc...)

[JDuggal760]

hmm I tried running it on windows and linux how would I install selenium on linux I’m getting a lot of errors with pip and python

[Ashwin-op]

You can install selenium like pip install selenium.

What kind of errors are you getting? Can you elaborate?

[JDuggal760]

I'm going to retry on a different device ill see if I still get the same error messages but pip install selenium wasn't working last time

[JDuggal760]

Hi
Not sure if your still there but I installed selenium and chrome driver successfully I'm getting this one error though
``Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/root/GitHub-Follow-Bot/follow_bot.py", line 9, in
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 76, in init
RemoteWebDriver.init(
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 157, in init
self.start_session(capabilities, browser_profile)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 252, in start_session
response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 321, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally
(unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist)
(The process started from chrome location /usr/bin/google-chrome is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)''

Not sure if that means anything I just ran python3 follow_bot.py

[Ashwin-op]

Looks like maybe the chrome driver isn't in the path

[JDuggal760]

How would I fix that and put it in the right path?