Selenium And Phantomjs Error: "cannot Connect To Ghostdriver"

I am running Selenium and PhantomJS to input search terms into a website and retrieve the number of hits for each search term. I have to do this 130,000+ times, so the code has bee

Solution 1:

Installing latest phantom js fixed this error, this was happening with default ubuntu 12.04 phantomjs destro

Solution 2:

I was having the same problem. I don't know why the program has trouble calling the phantomJS webdriver, but the answer is to write a simple exception WebDriverException. This following code did the trick for me

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select
from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException, WebDriverException
import unittest, time, re, urllib2

f = open("mother.txt","r") #opens file with name of "test.txt"
l = "1"
m = "2"
n = "3"
aTuple = ( l, m, n ) # create tuple
e = int(0)


for line in f:          
    e += 1try:
        h = str(e)
        j = line
        g = open("yes4/" + h + ".txt","w") #opens file with name of "test.txt"for item in aTuple:
            driver = webdriver.PhantomJS('phantomjs')
            base_url = j + item
            verificationErrors = []
            accept_next_alert = True
            driver.get(base_url)
            elem=driver.find_element_by_id("yelp_main_body")
            source_code=elem.get_attribute("outerHTML").encode('utf-8').strip()
            g.write(source_code)
            driver.quit()
    except WebDriverException:
        print"e"       
        h = str(e)
        j = line
        g = open("yes4/" + h + ".txt","w") #opens file with name of "test.txt"for item in aTuple:
            driver = webdriver.PhantomJS('phantomjs')
            base_url = j + item
            verificationErrors = []
            accept_next_alert = True
            driver.get(base_url)
            elem=driver.find_element_by_id("yelp_main_body")
            source_code=elem.get_attribute("outerHTML").encode('utf-8').strip()
            g.write(source_code)
            driver.quit()
    else:
        print h