selenium basic

[conception_native_0123]

anyone seen this question before? I'm tutorializing myself on this lib and this code gives me an automation error:

Dim bot As New WebDriver
bot.Start "chrome", "www.google.com"

everybody seems to think that I don't have something installed that I should have:

Automation Error with Chrome. Runtime error '-2146232576 (80131700)' · Issue #166 · danwagnerco/selenium-vba

ChromeDriver Version: 2.25 SeleniumBasic Version: v2.0.9.0 Google Chrome Version: 54.0.2840.99 m (64-bit) Operacional System Name: Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise, Version: 10.0.14393 Compilação 14...

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Trying to Automate Chrome with Selenium VBA, automation error?

I am trying to data scrape from a website that is only compatible with Google Chrome. I want to scrape the info into an Excel file so I would like to use VBA to accomplish this. This is my code. ...

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here's the tutorial:

Browser automation in Excel VBA using Selenium - Coding is Love

A simple tutorial on how to automate browser based tasks in VBA using selenium VBA which is a .NET wrapper for selenium framework.

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I tried to install .NET 4.8, which is the newest version, but my system gave a message saying I already have it. can anyone spot what I'm missing?

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Searching the articles and the web, that error SEEMS to be related to a version incompatibility or inconsistency for .NET, but it is not clear as to exactly which version you need. It SEEMS to be saying that something doesn't like .NET 4.8, which would mean that .NET's backwards compatibility got hosed. But it could also be that something is wrong with the .NET installation that requires it to be removed and reinstalled. Since I'm not up on the details of .NET, that's about as far as I can take this one. But perhaps someone else will see it and take up the thread.

 

[D_Walla]

I don't have any experience with WebDriver, but have you tried using ChromeDriver? I tend to find with SeleniumBasic the standard problem is when there is mismatch between the version of Chrome being used and the chromedriver.exe file that is installed.

 

[conception_native_0123]

thank you walla. I will try all the different drivers there are and report back. yes, I have tried chome driver too and it does the same thing.

 

[D_Walla]

That's really strange. What version of Chrome / ChromeDriver are you using? I'm not sure I can but I can see if I maybe try and reproduce the error?

 

[conception_native_0123]

i've put the project on hold for now walla. thanks. I'll post again when it's back in the saddle.

 

[NauticalGent]

Solved this problem today. You have to turn on the .Net 3.5 feature for Windows