How do I install ChromeDriver on Windows 10 and run Selenium tests with Chrome?

Question

We have an Ubuntu server which we use for running Selenium tests with Chrome and Firefox (I installed ChromeDriver) and I also want to run the tests locally on my Windows 10 com

Answer 1

As Uri stated in the question, under Update #2, downloading the latest release of chromedriver and placing it in C:\Windows corrects the issue.

I had the same issue with Chrome hanging when the browser window opens (alongside a command prompt window).

The latest drivers can be found at:

https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloads

The version in the chromedriver_win32.zip file is working on my 64-bit system.

Answer 2

1. Download the chromedriver.exe and save it to a desired location
2. Specify the executable_path to its saved path

The sample code is below:

from selenium import webdriver

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('headless')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="path/to/chromedriver.exe", chrome_options=options)
driver.get("example.html")
# do something here...
driver.close()

As Uri stated in Update #2 of the question, if we put the chromedriver.exe under C:/Windows, then there is no need to specify executable_path since Python will search under C:/Windows.

Answer 3

Let me brief out the requirements first. You need to download the chrome web driver zip from here. https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=2.33/

Extract the file and store it in a desired location.

Create a new project in Eclipse and include the following code in your class.

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\temp\\chromedriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

Explanation : System.setProperty(key,value):

Key is default and same for all the systems, value is the location of your chromedriver extract file.