chromedriver-wrapper

Basic wrapper for Chromedriver for MacOS and Linux

This wrapper will determine the correct version of Chromedriver for the installed version of Google Chrome. If the required version of chromedriver is not found, then it will be fetched and cached for future uses.

Installation

This package requires python3. Dependencies can be installed using:

pip install -r requirements.txt

After installing dependencies, ensure that the bin directory is in your $PATH.

Bash:

if [ -d "/home/example/git/chromedriver-wrapper/bin" ]; then
    export PATH="/home/example/git/chromedriver-wrapper/bin:$PATH"
fi

zsh:

if [ -d "/home/example/git/chromedriver-wrapper/bin" ]; then
    path="/home/example/git/chromedriver-wrapper/bin $path"
    export PATH
fi

Usage

Just ensure that the bin directory is in your $PATH You can test it's working correctly by running chromedriver

Options

You can specify a couple of options here to the chromedriver wrapper. These can be specified in the .env file.

Specify extra options to add to chromedriver

EXTRA_OPTIONS="--verbose --log-path=/tmp/chromedriver.log"

Specify an alternative location to store chromedriver binaries

PATH_TO_CACHEDIR="/tmp/mycache"

Specify an alternative path to Chrome itself

PATH_TO_CHROME="/my/path/to/chrome/canary"