competencytestlvl / webdriver_auto_update

A program to check existing local chrome driver version and automatically downloads the latest available version online.

webdriver_auto_update

A tool for managing ChromeDriver downloads and updates

Features

• Automatically downloads the latest stable version of ChromeDriver.
• Compares the local ChromeDriver version with the latest online version.
• Updates ChromeDriver to the latest version if necessary.
• Works on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Getting Started

Pre-requisites:

1. Python 3
2. Download Google Chrome
3. pip install selenium
4. Additional required packages listed in requirements.txt.

Installation (Option 1)

Clone this repository from GitHub

git clone https://github.com/competencytestlvl/webdriver_auto_update.git

Installation (Option 2)

Install the required package from PyPI:

pip install webdriver-auto-update

Usage

1. Navigate to the directory where you've cloned or downloaded the repository

2. Run the following example:

   from webdriver_auto_update.chrome_app_utils import ChromeAppUtils
   from webdriver_auto_update.webdriver_manager import WebDriverManager
   
   # Using ChromeAppUtils to inspect Chrome application version
   chrome_app_utils = ChromeAppUtils()
   chrome_app_version = chrome_app_utils.get_chrome_version()
   print("Chrome application version: ", chrome_app_version)
   
   # Target directory to store chromedriver
   driver_directory = "/path/to/driver/directory"
   
   # Create an instance of WebDriverManager
   driver_manager = WebDriverManager(driver_directory)
   
   # Call the main method to manage chromedriver
   driver_manager.main()
   

Note

• The objective of this program is to reduce redundancy of searching and downloading the updated version of chrome driver to the OpenSource community.
• Intended to be used in Selenium projects, browser testing or web automation.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! If you find any issues or want to add new features, feel free to submit a pull request or reach out to me.

webdriver_auto_update's Issues

Variable driver_directory must be proceeded by self.

driver_directory must be proceeded by self (line 89):
f"\nSuccessfully downloaded chromedriver version {self.online_driver_version} to:\n{self.driver_directory}")

webdriver_auto_update is not accessing the new drivers due to url change

Before the package was checking for drivers here:
https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads

But now, all the new drivers are here:
https://googlechromelabs.github.io/chrome-for-testing/

Would you be so kind to update this library to continue to look for the newest Chrome driver?

Mac platform which is used in URL must be different

At least for version 117 and 118 it must look like (line 62):
return 'mac_arm64' if platform.machine() == 'mac-arm64' else 'mac-x64'

What to do after main is called?

I'm failing to comprehend out to pass to selenium the driver.
In the past i was doing:

check_driver(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)) + "\\driver\\")
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)

but now

Local chromedriver version: 117.0.5938.149
Latest online chromedriver version: 117.0.5938.149

DevTools listening on ws://127.0.0.1:52863/devtools/browser/84819afd-14d3-4bbc-8226-24fb6a89ff89
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "****\main.py", line 17, in <module>
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "****Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py", line 49, in __init__
    super().__init__(
  File "****Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chromium\webdriver.py", line 54, in __init__
    super().__init__(
  File "****Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 206, in __init__
    self.start_session(capabilities)
  File "****Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 291, in start_session
    response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, caps)["value"]
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "****Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 346, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "****Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 245, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.SessionNotCreatedException: Message: session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 114
Current browser version is 117.0.5938.134 with binary path C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe

as if it is using something else

i've tried adding

options.binary_location = driver_directory

but i get

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Failed to create Chrome process.

Documentation update for import

update import documentation to include underscores in sub module import

should be:
from webdriver_auto_update import webdriver_auto_update

incorrect os version driver installing

its downloading chromedriver.exe on ubuntu.
this is not "OS independent"

Chromedriver being installed is not up-to-date.

I am getting the following error:

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: result.webdriverValue.value list is missing or empty in Runtime.callFunctionOn response
  (Session info: chrome=119.0.6045.160)

I read on StackOverflow this error occurs when the Chromedriver doesn't match Chrome. So I checked the version of webdriver and Chrome. The Chrome version listed in the error message is the version of my browser, 19.0.6045.160. I checked and saw that webdriver_auto_update did in fact overwrite the driver today, but the version of the driver installed is only v118.0.5993.70, not 119 . I am concerned that webdriver_auto_update is not up to date for some reason.

I have no control over my Chrome updates at work. I am on Windows.

Behind Proxy?

I am getting a 407 error behind my corporate proxy when I use this library. Where do I pass in the proxy settings?

run arguments must be separated.

rund arguments must be separated (line 131):
cmd_run = subprocess.run(args=["chromedriver", "--version"], capture_output=True, text=True)

webdriver-auto-update 1.2.0 fails

I am running python 3.12.0 on a MacBook M1 with macOS 12.7.1 I just reinstalled webdriver-auto-update and tried to run it. The first problem is this:

File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/webdriver_auto_update/chrome_app_utils.py", line 15, in init
raise NotImplemented(f"Unidentified OS: '{platform}'")

Reason: chrome_app_utils.py line 8 contains "Darwin", which should be "darwin".
I fixed this manually.

Next problem:
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/lib/python3.12/site-packages/webdriver_auto_update/webdriver_manager.py", line 150, in download_latest_version
latest_driver_zip = wget.download(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Reason: webdriver_manager.py line 13 defines CHROMEDRIVER_BASE_URL to a value that leads to a 404 error.

Please look into this.

Autoupdate not working

I installed webdriver_auto_update 1.2.0 in my env and tried to update the chromedriver.
But it failed with this error: urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

In terminal, I see it is trying to download the chromedriver from this link :
https://edgedl.me.gvt1.com/edgedl/chrome/chrome-for-testing/121.0.6167.184/win64/chromedriver-win64.zip.

Could you please fix this issue in package or any suggestion?