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

Uri picture Uri · Oct 15, 2015 · Viewed 64.5k times · Source

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

Adam Starrh picture Adam Starrh · Dec 30, 2015

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.