chrome-for-testing-manager 1.0.1

Automatic download and manage Chrome and Chromedriver, and ensures that their versions match

Chrome for Testing Manager

Thanks to the Chrome for Testing project for resolving the issue of mismatch between Chrome and Chromedriver versions in browser automation, witch is caused by Chrome automatic updates.

But we still need to manually download and manage Chrome and Chromedriver.

So Chrome for Testing Manager: A Python project that automatic download and manage Chrome and Chromedriver, and ensures that their versions match.

Usage

1. Install

pip install chrome-for-testing-manager

2. Just call chrome_for_testing_manager.init, which will download and return the local path of chrome & chromedriver.

from chrome_for_testing_manager import init

chrome_path, chromedriver_path = init()

# and then init selenium or any other ... ⬇️
# options = Options()
# options.binary_location = chrome_path
# service = Service(executable_path=chromedriver_path)
# driver = webdriver.Chrome(options, service)

Optional Configuration

from chrome_for_testing_manager import init

chrome_path, chromedriver_path = init(
    version="125.0.6422.78",
    path="path/to/download",
    force_download=False
)

configuration	description
version	Witch version of chrome & chromedriver to download, latest version of the stable channel by default. Available versions
path	The local path to download chrome & chromedriver, ~/.chrome-manager by default.
forceDownload	Download chrome & chromedriver even if the local file exists. false by default.