Automatic installation of the Chrome driver for the Chrome version

Question

If the version of the chrome driver is different from the current chrome version, I want to write a python code that downloads and operates the chrome driver that matches the current chrome version.

This is all I've been looking for

driver = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManage().install(), chrome_options=chrome_options)

I think this code is inefficient because i have to install the chrome driver every time. Is there any way?

Answer 1

This is what the official docs says :

you can do

pip install chromedriver-autoinstaller

or

Import

import chromedriver_autoinstaller

Code :

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 : click here

Answer 2

The chromedriver-autoinstaller library has worked well for me and uses a cache so it doesn't needlessly redownload the driver.