selenium_driver_updater

It is a fast and convenience package that can automatically download or update Selenium webdriver binaries and their browsers for different OS.

Installation

Use the package manager pip to install selenium_driver_updater.

pip install selenium-driver-updater

Usage in code

This example shows how you can use this library to download chromedriver binary and use it immediately.

from selenium_driver_updater import DriverUpdater
from selenium import webdriver
import os

base_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))

filename = DriverUpdater.install(path=base_dir, driver_name=DriverUpdater.chromedriver, upgrade=True, check_driver_is_up_to_date=True)

driver = webdriver.Chrome(filename)
driver.get('https://google.com')

Or you can use library to download and update chromedriver and geckodriver binaries at the same time.

from selenium_driver_updater import DriverUpdater
from selenium import webdriver
import os

base_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
list_drivers = [DriverUpdater.chromedriver, DriverUpdater.geckodriver]

filenames = DriverUpdater.install(path=base_dir, driver_name=list_drivers, upgrade=True, check_driver_is_up_to_date=True)
print(filenames)

driver_chrome = webdriver.Chrome(filename[0])
driver_chrome.get('https://google.com')

driver_firefox = webdriver.Firefox(filename[1])
driver_firefox.get('https://google.com')

Usage with help of command line

Use

selenium-driver-updater --help

To see all available arguments and commands

This example shows how you can use this console updater to download chromedriver to current dir

selenium-driver-updater -d chromedriver

Or you can use console updater to download chromedriver and geckodriver at the same time

selenium-driver-updater -d chromedriver,geckodriver

Supported Selenium Binaries

`Chromedriver`

`DriverUpdater.chromedriver`

For installing or updating chromedriver binary

All supported OS for this driver are:

Windows
Linux
MacOS
MacOS with M1