hitchchrome 0.1.1

Build chrome and chromedriver for use with selenium

HitchChrome

HitchChrome is a self contained package that will download and install an isolated version of of Chrome/ChromeDriver that will be more likely to work consistently with selenium than your system packages.

How?

First, build into a directory of your choice:

from hitchchrome import ChromeBuild

chrome_build = ChromeBuild("./chrome", "83")
chrome_build.ensure_built()

Then use, either with GUI:

driver = chrome_build.webdriver()
driver.get("http://www.google.com")
driver.quit()

Or headless:

driver = chrome_build.webdriver(headless=True)
driver.get("http://www.google.com")
driver.quit()

Caveats

• Only works with Chromium stable version 83.
• Only works with linux.
• Not super heavily tested.
• Requires aria2 to be installed (to download chrome/chromedriver).

Why?

• Ubuntu/Debian aren't very good at ensuring chromedriver/chrome versions are kept in sync.
• You can "freeze" the version of chrome available this way, and avoid indeterminacy in your tests.
• Your version of chrome shouldn't randomly stop working.
• Making docker work with UI is a pain.