chromedriver-autoinstall 0.0.5

Script to automatically install the ChromeDriver release compatible with the client's Chrome version.

chromedriver_autoinstall

Automatically downloads the version of ChromeDriver compatible with the client's version of Chrome (currently supports MacOS and Windows). Can be imported as a module and used to automatically reinstall ChromeDriver in its most updated/compatible version for any program that requires it.

Install:

Python 3.6 or higher is required

pip install chromedriver_autoinstall

Usage:

• To download chromedriver in the current directory, run install_chromedriver.
• To use the autoinstaller as part of a program, write import chromedriver_autoinstall in your file. See the example below for this use case.

Quick Example:

from selenium import webdriver
import os
import chromedriver_autoinstall
import time

PATH = "./chromedriver"
URL = "https://github.com/RoastSea8/chromedriver-autoinstaller"

def main():
    chromedriver_autoinstall.install()
    # os.chmod('./chromedriver', 0o755) # MacOS only
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(PATH)
    driver.get(URL)
    time.sleep(1000)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Linux support coming soon.