Installer for chromedriver.
Project description
chromedriver-binary
Downloads and installs the chromedriver binary version 88.0.4324.27 for automated testing of webapps. The installer supports Linux, MacOS and Windows operating systems.
Alternatively the package chromedriver-binary-auto can be used to automatically detect the latest chromedriver version required for the installed Chrome/Chromium browser.
Installation
Latest and fixed versions
From PyPI
pip install chromedriver-binary
From GitHub
pip install git+https://github.com/danielkaiser/python-chromedriver-binary.git
Automatically detected versions
Please make sure to install Chrome or Chromium first and add the browser to the binary search path.
From PyPI
pip install chromedriver-binary-auto
To redetect the required version and install the newest suitable chromedriver after the first installation simply reinstall the package using
pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall chromedriver-binary-auto
From GitHub
pip install git+https://github.com/danielkaiser/python-chromedriver-binary.git#chromedriver-binary-auto
If the installed chromedriver version does not match your browser's version please try to empty pip's cache or disable the cache during (re-)installation.
Usage
To use chromedriver just import chromedriver_binary
. This will add the executable to your PATH so it will be found. You can also get the absolute filename of the binary with chromedriver_binary.chromedriver_filename
.
Example
from selenium import webdriver
import chromedriver_binary # Adds chromedriver binary to path
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("http://www.python.org")
assert "Python" in driver.title
Exporting chromedriver binary path
This package installs a small shell script chromedriver-path
to easily set and export the PATH variable:
$ export PATH=$PATH:`chromedriver-path`
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