driverloader 0.1.3

A webdriver downloader

Quick start:

Download chrome driver:

from driverloader import chrome_driver
print(chrome_driver.default)

Download firefox driver:

from driverloader import firefox_driver
print(firefox_driver.default)

The drivers would be downloaded in executor/ dir of the webdrivers package. You can find chromedriver.exe or geckodriver.exe in the dir.

Using with selenium:

from selenium.webdriver import Chrome
from driverloader import chrome_driver

browser = Chrome(chrome_driver.default)
browser.quit()

Downloading to customized path:

from driverloader import chrome_driver
driver_path = chrome_driver(path='.')

or absolute path:

import pathlib
from driverloader import chrome_driver

current_dir = pathlib.Path(__file__).parent.parent
print(chrome_driver(current_dir))

customized version:

from driverloader import chrome_driver
driver_path = chrome_driver(path='.', version='70')

command line

Using driverloader by command line like this:

driverloader chrome .
driverloader firefox .

Two arguments:

• driver_name, chrome and firefox supported.
• path, the path you want to save the driver.

Options:

• -v or --version, the version would be downloaded.
• -f or --force, force downloading if the similar driver exists

System Platform

Driverloader would download the given version according to your OS, windows, mac, linux are all OK.

Mirror URL

webdriver-downloader get the drivers from https://npm.taobao.org/mirrors/

• chrome driver: https://npm.taobao.org/mirrors/chromedriver/
• firefox driver: https://npm.taobao.org/mirrors/geckodriver/