How to update chrome driver for windows 10
Solution 1
chromedriver is a single self-contained executable file. Just replace your existing version with a newer one.
- download the latest version of chromedriver_win32.zip from https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloads
- unzip the file to extract chromedriver.exe
- replace your existing file with this new executable.
Solution 2
Recently I've found that chromedriver
has almost one-to-one version accordance now (there was three-last-releases support policy for chromedriver 2.46
). See version selection guide here: https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloads/version-selection
I've wrote simple powershell script for updating chromedriver
automatically.
Run this script when you need to update crhomedriver
(like a build step in CI/CD, just before running selenium web tests):
[CmdletBinding()]
param (
[string]$ChromeDir="C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"
)
if (-Not (Test-Path $ChromeDir -PathType Leaf)) {
Write-Output "Chrome not found in '$ChromeDir'. Please, install chrome or specify custom chrome location with -ChromeDir argument."
Exit 1
}
$thisScriptRoot = if ($PSScriptRoot -eq "") { "." } else { $PSScriptRoot }
$chromeDriverRelativeDir = "Selenium"
$chromeDriverDir = $(Join-Path $thisScriptRoot $chromeDriverRelativeDir)
$chromeDriverFileLocation = $(Join-Path $chromeDriverDir "chromedriver.exe")
$chromeVersion = [System.Diagnostics.FileVersionInfo]::GetVersionInfo($ChromeDir).FileVersion
$chromeMajorVersion = $chromeVersion.split(".")[0]
if (-Not (Test-Path $chromeDriverDir -PathType Container)) {
New-Item -ItemType directory -Path $chromeDriverDir
}
if (Test-Path $chromeDriverFileLocation -PathType Leaf) {
# get version of curent chromedriver.exe
$chromeDriverFileVersion = (& $chromeDriverFileLocation --version)
$chromeDriverFileVersionHasMatch = $chromeDriverFileVersion -match "ChromeDriver (\d+\.\d+\.\d+(\.\d+)?)"
$chromeDriverCurrentVersion = $matches[1]
if (-Not $chromeDriverFileVersionHasMatch) {
Exit
}
}
else {
# if chromedriver.exe not found, will download it
$chromeDriverCurrentVersion = ''
}
if ($chromeMajorVersion -lt 73) {
# for chrome versions < 73 will use chromedriver v2.46 (which supports chrome v71-73)
$chromeDriverExpectedVersion = "2.46"
$chromeDriverVersionUrl = "https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE"
}
else {
$chromeDriverExpectedVersion = $chromeVersion.split(".")[0..2] -join "."
$chromeDriverVersionUrl = "https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE_" + $chromeDriverExpectedVersion
}
$chromeDriverLatestVersion = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $chromeDriverVersionUrl
Write-Output "chrome version: $chromeVersion"
Write-Output "chromedriver version: $chromeDriverCurrentVersion"
Write-Output "chromedriver latest: $chromeDriverLatestVersion"
# will update chromedriver.exe if MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH
$needUpdateChromeDriver = $chromeDriverCurrentVersion -ne $chromeDriverLatestVersion
if ($needUpdateChromeDriver) {
$chromeDriverZipLink = "https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/" + $chromeDriverLatestVersion + "/chromedriver_win32.zip"
Write-Output "Will download $chromeDriverZipLink"
$chromeDriverZipFileLocation = $(Join-Path $chromeDriverDir "chromedriver_win32.zip")
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $chromeDriverZipLink -OutFile $chromeDriverZipFileLocation
Expand-Archive $chromeDriverZipFileLocation -DestinationPath $(Join-Path $thisScriptRoot $chromeDriverRelativeDir) -Force
Remove-Item -Path $chromeDriverZipFileLocation -Force
$chromeDriverFileVersion = (& $chromeDriverFileLocation --version)
Write-Output "chromedriver updated to version $chromeDriverFileVersion"
}
else {
Write-Output "chromedriver is actual"
}
You can configure relative directory where you need to place chromedriver
with $chromeDriverRelativeDir
variable, relatively of script location.
Taryn Antoinette Raines
Updated on October 20, 2020Comments
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Taryn Antoinette Raines over 3 years
Hello I am looking to update my chrome driver to the latest version but ant find any information on updating the driver just info on installing it. What do I need to do to update the driver to the latest version?
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undetected Selenium about 6 yearsCheckout this discussion stackoverflow.com/questions/49788257/…
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Max over 4 yearsYou don't use
$dir
anywhere in the script. -
hal over 4 yearsWhy I need to use $dir? I have used $PSScriptRoot instead
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Max over 4 yearsThen, you don't have to initialize
$dir
here:if (-Not (Test-Path $chromeDriverDir -PathType Container)) { $dir = New-Item -ItemType directory -Path $chromeDriverDir }
This is redundant, right? -
hal over 4 yearsYes, I understand now :) I think it was there for debugging purpose. Thanks for pointing out!
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sisbilir about 4 yearsIn order to run tests after chrome driver is downloaded and extracted, "update-config.json" file should be updated. It has entries to latest and all browser drivers.
# update update-config.json file with new driver info $updateConfigPath = $(Join-Path $chromeDriverDir "update-config.json") $a = Get-Content $updateConfigPath -raw | ConvertFrom-Json $a.chrome.last = $(Join-Path $chromeDriverDir "chromedriver.exe") $a.chrome.all += $(Join-Path $chromeDriverDir "chromedriver.exe") $a | ConvertTo-Json -depth 32| set-content $updateConfigPath
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user3638751 over 3 yearsThe solution worked great on one machine and failed on another that didn't have any chromedriver installed. I surrounded line started with $chromeVersion with try-catch and it worked great. Try{ $chromeVersion = [System.Diagnostics.FileVersionInfo]::GetVersionInfo("C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe").FileVersion } Catch { $chromeVersion = "0.0.0" }
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hal over 3 years@user3638751, did you mean case when chrome is not installed on machine, not chromedriver? I've added a check that chrome is installed to script.