Required Applications¶
Chrome¶
The following applications are required:
Chromedriver must also be available on your operating system’s PATH environment variable.
Install¶
Linux¶
Go to the download page on the Chromium project and choose
the correct version for your Linux installation. Then extract the downloaded file in a
directory in the PATH (e.g. /usr/bin). You can also extract it to any
directory and add that directory to the PATH:
Linux 64bits¶
cd $HOME/Downloads
wget https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.41/chromedriver_linux64.zip
unzip chromedriver_linux64.zip
mkdir -p $HOME/bin
mv chromedriver $HOME/bin
echo "export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
Windows¶
Go to the download page on Selenium project and choose
“ChromeDriver server for win”. Your browser will download a zip file, extract it and add the .exe file to your PATH.
If you don’t know how to add an executable to the PATH on Windows, check these link out:
Firefox¶
The following applications are required:
Geckodriver must also be available on your operating system’s PATH environment variable.
Edge¶
The following applications are required:
Microsoft Edge Driver must also be available on your operating system’s PATH environment variable.
Mac OS X¶
Modern versions of Edge (79+) are available for Mac OS X. However, no versions of Edge Legacy are available.
Linux¶
Neither version of Edge is available for Linux, and thus Edge WebDriver cannot be used on Linux systems.