PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied

Taking a shot in the dark here and hoping someone can point me in the right direction as to why I’m getting this error. I have used this same script in the past without issue so I’m completely lost as to what happened. Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

from requests_html import HTMLSession

link = 'https://www.denvergov.org/property/realproperty/summary/160820474'
session = HTMLSession()
url = session.get(link)
print(url)

<Response [200]>

url.html.render()

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/Nick/gfddfsf.py", line 9, in <module>
    url.html.render()
  File "C:\Users\Nick\lib\site-packages\requests_html.py", line 572, in render
    self.session.browser  # Automatycally create a event loop and browser
  File "C:\Users\Nick\lib\site-packages\requests_html.py", line 680, in browser
    self._browser = self.loop.run_until_complete(pyppeteer.launch(headless=True, args=['--no-sandbox']))
  File "C:\Users\Nick\lib\asyncio\base_events.py", line 467, in run_until_complete
    return future.result()
  File "C:\Users\Nick\lib\site-packages\pyppeteer\launcher.py", line 311, in launch
    return await Launcher(options, **kwargs).launch()
  File "C:\Users\Nick\lib\site-packages\pyppeteer\launcher.py", line 169, in launch
    **options,
  File "C:\Users\Nick\lib\subprocess.py", line 709, in __init__
    restore_signals, start_new_session)
  File "C:\Users\Nick\lib\subprocess.py", line 997, in _execute_child
    startupinfo)
PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied

[ghost]

Having the same issue, with python 3.8 anyone. Have already tried all the above still not working

[ADVEngr]

I recently faced a similar issue. In my case it was similar to the OP’s issue with subprocess.py and PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied.

The displayed error is very misleading, but in my case there was an executable required for a subprocess, and I had only specified the directory containing the executable. Completing the path the the executable solved the issue.

Now that I have it solved, I understand the Permission Error description (the script can’t access the required executable) but that was not obvious to me when first debugging.