Unfortunately, Chromedriver always is version-specific to the Chrome version you have installed. So when you pack your python code AND a chromedriver via PyInstaller in a deployable .exe-file for Windows, it will not work in most cases as you won't be able to have all chromedriver versions in the .exe-file.
Anyone knows a way on how to download the correct chromedriver from the website automatically?
If not, I'll come up with a code to download the zip-file and unpack it to temp.
Thanks!
Here is the other solution, where webdriver_manager does not support. This script will get the latest chrome driver version downloaded.
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)
Here is one more way For Python -
import chromedriver_autoinstaller
from selenium import webdriver
opt = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
opt.add_argument("--start-maximized")
chromedriver_autoinstaller.install()
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=opt)
driver.get('https://stackoverflow.com/')
here is more info
I have a slightly fancier version
It will detected what chrome version you have, grab the correct driver
def download_chromedriver():
def get_latestversion(version):
url = 'https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE_' + str(version)
response = requests.get(url)
version_number = response.text
return version_number
def download(download_url, driver_binaryname, target_name):
# download the zip file using the url built above
latest_driver_zip = wget.download(download_url, out='./temp/chromedriver.zip')
# extract the zip file
with zipfile.ZipFile(latest_driver_zip, 'r') as zip_ref:
zip_ref.extractall(path = './temp/') # you can specify the destination folder path here
# delete the zip file downloaded above
os.remove(latest_driver_zip)
os.rename(driver_binaryname, target_name)
os.chmod(target_name, 755)
if os.name == 'nt':
replies = os.popen(r'reg query "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Chrome\BLBeacon" /v version').read()
replies = replies.split('\n')
for reply in replies:
if 'version' in reply:
reply = reply.rstrip()
reply = reply.lstrip()
tokens = re.split(r"\s+", reply)
fullversion = tokens[len(tokens) - 1]
tokens = fullversion.split('.')
version = tokens[0]
break
target_name = './bin/chromedriver-win-' + version + '.exe'
found = os.path.exists(target_name)
if not found:
version_number = get_latestversion(version)
# build the donwload url
download_url = "https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/" + version_number +"/chromedriver_win32.zip"
download(download_url, './temp/chromedriver.exe', target_name)
elif os.name == 'posix':
reply = os.popen(r'chromium --version').read()
if reply != '':
reply = reply.rstrip()
reply = reply.lstrip()
tokens = re.split(r"\s+", reply)
fullversion = tokens[1]
tokens = fullversion.split('.')
version = tokens[0]
else:
reply = os.popen(r'google-chrome --version').read()
reply = reply.rstrip()
reply = reply.lstrip()
tokens = re.split(r"\s+", reply)
fullversion = tokens[2]
tokens = fullversion.split('.')
version = tokens[0]
target_name = './bin/chromedriver-linux-' + version
print('new chrome driver at ' + target_name)
found = os.path.exists(target_name)
if not found:
version_number = get_latestversion(version)
download_url = "https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/" + version_number +"/chromedriver_linux64.zip"
download(download_url, './temp/chromedriver', target_name)
As of Aug-2021, this is the status :-
Automatically download and install chromedriver that supports the currently installed version of chrome. This installer supports Linux, MacOS and Windows operating systems.
pip install chromedriver-autoinstaller
Just type import chromedriver_autoinstaller in the module you want to use chromedriver.
from selenium import webdriver
import chromedriver_autoinstaller
chromedriver_autoinstaller.install() # Check if the current version of chromedriver exists
# and if it doesn't exist, download it automatically,
# then add chromedriver to path
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("http://www.python.org")
assert "Python" in driver.title
Reference link here
You could use this solution. It will do two things:
- Check locally in your computer for the driver version and compare it with the latest version available online.
- The latest online version will be downloaded if it does not match your local version.
from selenium import webdriver
import requests
import zipfile
import wget
import subprocess
import os
CHROMEDRIVER_PATH = # Insert your Chromedriver path here
CHROMEDRIVER_FOLDER = os.path.dirname(CHROMEDRIVER_PATH)
LATEST_DRIVER_URL = "https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE"
def download_latest_version(version_number):
print("Attempting to download latest driver online......")
download_url = "https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/" + version_number + "/chromedriver_win32.zip"
# download zip file
latest_driver_zip = wget.download(download_url, out=CHROMEDRIVER_FOLDER)
# read & extract the zip file
with zipfile.ZipFile(latest_driver_zip, 'r') as downloaded_zip:
# You can chose the folder path to extract to below:
downloaded_zip.extractall(path=CHROMEDRIVER_FOLDER)
# delete the zip file downloaded above
os.remove(latest_driver_zip)
def check_driver():
# run cmd line to check for existing web-driver version locally
cmd_run = subprocess.run("chromedriver --version",
capture_output=True,
text=True)
# Extract driver version as string from terminal output
local_driver_version = cmd_run.stdout.split()[1]
print(f"Local driver version: {local_driver_version}")
# check for latest chromedriver version online
response = requests.get(LATEST_DRIVER_URL)
online_driver_version = response.text
print(f"Latest online chromedriver version: {online_driver_version}")
if local_driver_version == online_driver_version:
return True
else:
download_latest_version(online_driver_version)