ImportError: No module named 'selenium'

I'm trying to write a script to check a website. It's the first time I'm using selenium. I'm trying to run the script on a OSX system. Although I checked in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages and selenium-2.46.0-py2.7.egg is present, when I run the script it keeps telling me that there is no selenium module to import.

This is the log that I get when I run my code:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/GiulioColleluori/Desktop/Class_Checker.py", line 10, in <module>
    from selenium import webdriver
ImportError: No module named 'selenium'

Solution 1:

If you have pip installed you can install selenium like so.

pip install selenium

or depending on your permissions:

sudo pip install selenium

For python3:

sudo pip3 install selenium

As you can see from this question pip vs easy_install pip is a more reliable package installer as it was built to improve easy_install.

I would also suggest that when creating new projects you do so in virtual environments, even a simple selenium project. You can read more about virtual environments here. In fact pip is included out of the box with virtualenv!

Solution 2:

For python3, on a Mac you must use pip3 to install selenium.

sudo pip3 install selenium

Solution 3:

I had the exact same problem and it was driving me crazy (Windows 10 and VS Code 1.49.1)

Other answers talk about installing Selenium, but it's clear to me that you've already did that, but you still get the ImportError: No module named 'selenium'.

So, what's going on?

Two things:

You installed Selenium in this folder /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages and selenium-2.46.0-py2.7.egg
But you're probably running a version of Python, in which you didn't install Selenium. For instance: /Library/Python/3.8/site-packages... you won't find Selenium installed here and that's why the module isn't found.

The solution? You have to install selenium in the same directory to the Python version you're using or change the interpreter to match the directory where Selenium is installed.

In VS Code you change the interpreter here (at the bottom left corner of the screen) enter image description here

Ready! Now your Python interpreter should find the module.

Solution 4:

It's 2020 now, use python3 consistently

pip3 install selenium
python3 xxx.py

I meet the same problem when I install selenium using pip3, but run scripts using python.

Solution 5:

If you are using Anaconda or Spyder in windows, install selenium by this code in cmd:

conda install selenium

If you are using Pycharm IDE in windows, install selenium by this code in cmd:

pip install selenium