Required Applications¶

Chrome¶

The following applications are required:

• Google Chrome

• ChromeDriver

Chromedriver must also be available on your operating system’s PATH environment variable.

Install¶

Mac OS X¶

The recommended way is by using Homebrew:

brew install chromedriver

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:

• Environment variables

• How to manage environment variables in Windows XP

• How to manage environment variables in Windows 8 & 10

Firefox¶

The following applications are required:

• Mozilla Firefox

• Geckodriver

Geckodriver must also be available on your operating system’s PATH environment variable.

Install¶

Mac OS X¶

The recommended way is by using Homebrew:

brew install geckodriver

Edge¶

The following applications are required:

• Microsoft Edge

• Microsoft Edge Driver

Microsoft Edge Driver must also be available on your operating system’s PATH environment variable.

Install¶

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.