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 computer. I want to keep the Python code the same for both computers. But I didn't find out how to install the ChromeDriver on Windows 10? I didn't find it on the documentation [1, 2].

Here is the code that runs the test in Chrome:

import unittest from selenium import webdriver  class BaseSeleniumTestCase(unittest.TestCase):     ...     ...     ...     ...      def start_selenium_webdriver(self, chrome_options=None):         ...         self.driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options)         ... 

I also found How to run Selenium WebDriver test cases in Chrome? but it seems to be not in Python (no programming language is tagged, what is it?)

Update #1: I found some Python code in https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/getting-started, but where do I put the file in Windows 10 if I want to keep the same Python code for both computers?

Update #2: I downloaded and put chromedriver.exe in C:\Windows and it works, but I didn't see it documented anywhere.

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.