MacOS Catalina(v 10.15.3): Error: “chromedriver” cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified. Unable to launch the chrome browser

Question

I have recently upgraded my mac machine to OS Catalina(v 10.15.3). After this upgrade I am unable to launch the chrome driver using selenium.

I am facing the below error

Answer 1

Existing answers are great, and they work.

But an easier solution is to open the terminal and run this:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine $(which chromedriver)

Answer 2

I found the work around as below

1. Open terminal
2. Navigate to path where your chromedriver file is located
3. Execute any one of the below commands

Command1: xattr -d com.apple.quarantine <name-of-executable>

Example

/usr/local/Caskroom/chromedriver 
$ xattr -d com.apple.quarantine chromedriver 

(or)

Command2: spctl --add --label 'Approved' <name-of-executable>

Source: https://docwhat.org/upgrading-to-catalina

Note: This will work only with the file(s) where the above command is executed. If a new chromedriver is downloaded then the command has to be executed again on the newly downloaded file

Answer 3

Open terminal and navigate to path where chromedriver is downloaded. Execute xattr -d com.apple.quarantine chromedriver