osman-mujic / webdriver_auto_update

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

webdriver_auto_update

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

Program Functionality

• Checks local chromedriver driver version on your computer and compares it with the latest version available online.
• The latest online version/release will be downloaded if it does not match your local version.
• If no local chromedriver executable file is found in the specified folder path, it will be downloaded automatically to that particular folder.

Pre-requisites:

1. Download Google Chrome
2. pip install selenium

Installation

• Make sure you have Python installed in your system.
• Run the following to install:

pip install webdriver-auto-update-2

Example

# webdriver_auto_update.py
from webdriver_auto_update import check_driver
## Make sure to pass in the folder used for storing and downloading chromedriver executable
check_driver('directory/to/store/chromedriver')

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.