PYTHON
Edit1:
You can use the webdriver_manager to handle this scenario, where it will take care of os.chomp too. Here is the pip installation for webdriver_manager
pip install webdriver-manager
And below is the sample script for chrome.
from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())
driver.get("https://www.google.com")
driver.quit
Old Answer:
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This will make sure the chromedriver is always latest stable version and you don't have to do any manual steps
The other advantage with webdriver_manager is you can download any driver on fly. Below is the simple example for Firefox (GeckoDriver).
from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.firefox import GeckoDriverManager
driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path =GeckoDriverManager().install())
driver.get("https://www.google.com")
driver.quit()
Here is the dirty code to download the latest chromedriver dynamically for windows.
import requests
import wget
import zipfile
import os
# get the latest chrome driver version number
url = 'https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE'
response = requests.get(url)
version_number = response.text
# build the donwload url
download_url = "https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/" + version_number +"/chromedriver_win32.zip"
# download the zip file using the url built above
latest_driver_zip = wget.download(download_url,'chromedriver.zip')
# extract the zip file
with zipfile.ZipFile(latest_driver_zip, 'r') as zip_ref:
zip_ref.extractall() # you can specify the destination folder path here
# delete the zip file downloaded above
os.remove(latest_driver_zip)
RUBY Here is the solution implemented in ruby for windows.
require 'net/http'
require 'open-uri'
require 'zip'
# Method to extract the contents of the zip file to the destination path
def extract_zip(file, destination)
# create the destination folder if it's not exist
FileUtils.mkdir_p(destination)
Zip::File.open(file) do |zip_file|
zip_file.each do |f|
fpath = File.join(destination, f.name)
zip_file.extract(f, fpath) unless File.exist?(fpath)
end
end
end
# url where you can get the latest chrome driver information
url = 'https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE'
# get the latest driver version
parsed_url = URI.parse(url)
http = Net::HTTP.new(parsed_url.host, parsed_url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Accept"] = 'application/json'
response = http.request(request)
# build the download url based on the above step
download_url = "https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/#{response.body}/chromedriver_win32.zip"
puts download_url
# build the temporary location where you want to store the donwload zip
download_path = File.join(ENV['TEMP'],response.body.gsub('.',"_")) + '.zip'
puts download_path
# download the zip file
File.open(download_path, "wb") do |file|
file.write open(download_url).read
end
# Extract the chromedriver.exe from the zip in specific location
extract_zip(download_path,"my_destination_folder_path") # don't specify the filename.
# delete the zip file
FileUtils.rm_rf(download_path)
This .rb file will be executed as and when I get the error that the driver does not support the chrome version exception and recover the execution after downloading the chromedriver. So that way, script my scripts never fail due to the chrome version changes.
