[🐛 Bug]: Conda Python Selenium 4.27.0 missing remote/getAttribute.js and other js files

[JwDLR]

What happened?

I have updated my Conda environment and upgraded to selenium 4.27. When running my test, I get an error that the js files are missing in selenium/webdriver/remote.
I went back to 4.26 and the error is gone or the files are back. Under 4.27 there are only .py files in the remote subfolder.

How can we reproduce the issue?

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# to controll the firefox browser
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.service import Service as FirefoxService
from webdriver_manager.firefox import GeckoDriverManager
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains

serv = FirefoxService(GeckoDriverManager().install())
driver = webdriver.Firefox(service=serv)

driver.get("https://www.dlr.de/de")

menu_item = WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located(
    (By.XPATH, "/html/body/div[2]/div[3]/div/div/nav/div/ul/li[1]/button")))
ActionChains(driver).move_to_element(menu_item).perform()  # hover

Relevant log output

Verbunden mit selenium (Python 3.11.10)

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
FileNotFoundError                         Traceback (most recent call last)
File \\as-exv-balu0\EXV_User\JWagner\Gitlab\gleitzeit2zeitnachweis\gleitzeit copy.py:17
     13 driver = webdriver.Firefox(service=serv)
     15 driver.get("https://www.dlr.de/de")
---> 17 menu_item = WebDriverWait(driver, 5).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located(
     18     (By.XPATH, "/html/body/div[2]/div[3]/div/div/nav/div/ul/li[1]/button")))
     19 ActionChains(driver).move_to_element(menu_item).perform()  # hover

File c:\Users\my_user\AppData\Local\miniforge3\envs\selenium\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\support\wait.py:96, in WebDriverWait.until(self, method, message)
     94 while True:
     95     try:
---> 96         value = method(self._driver)
     97         if value:
     98             return value

File c:\Users\my_user\AppData\Local\miniforge3\envs\selenium\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\support\expected_conditions.py:156, in visibility_of_element_located.<locals>._predicate(driver)
    154 def _predicate(driver: WebDriverOrWebElement):
    155     try:
--> 156         return _element_if_visible(driver.find_element(*locator))
    157     except StaleElementReferenceException:
    158         return False

File c:\Users\my_user\AppData\Local\miniforge3\envs\selenium\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\support\expected_conditions.py:179, in _element_if_visible(element, visibility)
    178 def _element_if_visible(element: WebElement, visibility: bool = True) -> Union[Literal[False], WebElement]:
--> 179     return element if element.is_displayed() == visibility else False

File c:\Users\my_user\AppData\Local\miniforge3\envs\selenium\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webelement.py:258, in WebElement.is_displayed(self)
    256 # Only go into this conditional for browsers that don't use the atom themselves
    257 if isDisplayed_js is None:
--> 258     _load_js()
    259 return self.parent.execute_script(f"/* isDisplayed */return ({isDisplayed_js}).apply(null, arguments);", self)

File c:\Users\my_user\AppData\Local\miniforge3\envs\selenium\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webelement.py:48, in _load_js()
     46 global isDisplayed_js
     47 _pkg = ".".join(__name__.split(".")[:-1])
---> 48 getAttribute_js = pkgutil.get_data(_pkg, "getAttribute.js").decode("utf8")
     49 isDisplayed_js = pkgutil.get_data(_pkg, "isDisplayed.js").decode("utf8")

File c:\Users\my_user\AppData\Local\miniforge3\envs\selenium\Lib\pkgutil.py:640, in get_data(package, resource)
    638 parts.insert(0, os.path.dirname(mod.__file__))
    639 resource_name = os.path.join(*parts)
--> 640 return loader.get_data(resource_name)

File <frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>:1130, in get_data(self, path)

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'c:\\Users\\my_user\\AppData\\Local\\miniforge3\\envs\\selenium\\Lib\\site-packages\\selenium\\webdriver\\remote\\getAttribute.js'

Operating System

Windows 10

Selenium version

Python 3.11 and 3.12

What are the browser(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

Firefox 128.3.1esr

What are the browser driver(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

webdriver-manager 4.0.2

Are you using Selenium Grid?

No response

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[navin772]

Hi @JwDLR, I am not able to reproduce this error and the code works fine on my system. Can you reinstall selenium or upgrade to 4.27.1?

[JwDLR]

I can reproduce the error on a second computer

conda create -n seleniumTest python=3.11 conda-forge::selenium=4.27
4.27.1 is not yet available via conda forge

Probably it's a Conda Forge problem. 4.27 is only a third of the size of the previous updates. I unpacked it manually and the js. files are also missing. Please see here

But when I install Selenium in a conda environment using pip, the files are there

pip install selenium

[navin772]

I didn't use conda-forge to install selenium, but yes the size is reduced to 1/3 as compared to previous ones.

@VietND96 can this be an issue due to the recent pyproject.toml changes? I am not entirely sure about this since chances of something going wrong at conda's end are minimal.

cc: @AutomatedTester

[VietND96]

I suspect it relates to the support of Conda, which I can find conda/conda#10633, conda/conda#12462
Recently, setuptools config moved to pyproject.toml from setup.py
Can you try to read this to see any help https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76722680/what-is-the-best-way-to-combine-conda-with-standard-python-packaging-tools-e-g

[VietND96]

I am not sure how conda-forge::selenium is created and published. Look around if you can raise an issue to them.
I can see https://pypi.org/project/python-wheel-to-conda-package/, probably can try to get wheel file from https://pypi.org/project/selenium/4.27.1/#files and convert it to Conda package, or try to do it yourself in local.

[navin772]

@VietND96 conda-forge packages are community built feedstocks, for selenium it is - https://github.com/conda-forge/selenium-feedstock, I have opened an issue there regarding this.

[navin772]

@JwDLR conda-forge released 4.27.1 with the static files included via this PR - conda-forge/selenium-feedstock#99.
I verified it and it works fine.

[VietND96]

Closed as it was fixed in the package repo!

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