webdrivermanager 0.3.0

Installation

This module is available on the Python Package Index (PyPI) and can be installed as follows:

pip install webdrivermanager

Dependencies

This module is dependent on the following additional packages:

• requests

• tqdm

Classes

The following classes are available:

• ChromeDriverDownloader for downloading and installing chromedriver (for Google Chrome).

• GeckoDriverDownloader for downloading and installing geckodriver (for Mozilla Firefox).

• OperaChromiumDriverDownloader for downloading and installing operadriver (for Chromium based Opera browsers).

Status

Currently being developed/tested using Python 2.7.15 and 3.6.5 on macOS and Windows 10.

Example module usage

Example:

>>> from webdrivermanager import GeckoDriverDownloader
>>> gdd = GeckoDriverDownloader()
>>> gdd.download_and_install()
1524kb [00:00, 1631.24kb/s]
('/Users/lsaguisag/webdriver/geckodriver-v0.20.1-macos/geckodriver', '/Users/lsaguisag/bin/geckodriver')
>>> gdd.download_and_install("v0.20.0")
1501kb [00:02, 678.92kb/s]
Symlink /Users/lsaguisag/bin/geckodriver already exists and will be overwritten.
('/Users/lsaguisag/webdriver/geckodriver-v0.20.0-macos/geckodriver', '/Users/lsaguisag/bin/geckodriver')
>>> gdd.download_and_install()
Symlink /Users/lsaguisag/bin/geckodriver already exists and will be overwritten.
('/Users/lsaguisag/webdriver/geckodriver-v0.20.1-macos/geckodriver', '/Users/lsaguisag/bin/geckodriver')
>>>

Command line tool

There is a command-line tool that is also available. After installing the package, it can be used as follows (Windows example):

> webdrivermanager chrome:2.38 firefox opera:v.2.35
Downloading WebDriver for browser: 'chrome'
3300kb [00:00, 11216.38kb/s]
Driver binary downloaded to: C:\Users\lsaguisag\webdriver\chrome\2.38\2.38%2Fchromedriver_win32\chromedriver.exe
Driver copied to: C:\Users\lsaguisag\bin\chromedriver.exe

Downloading WebDriver for browser: 'firefox'
3031kb [00:01, 2253.64kb/s]
Driver binary downloaded to: C:\Users\lsaguisag\webdriver\gecko\v0.20.1\geckodriver-v0.20.1-win64\geckodriver.exe
Driver copied to: C:\Users\lsaguisag\bin\geckodriver.exe

Downloading WebDriver for browser: 'opera'
3548kb [00:02, 1239.02kb/s]
Driver binary downloaded to: C:\Users\lsaguisag\webdriver\operachromium\v.2.35\operadriver_win64\operadriver_win64\operadriver.exe
Driver copied to: C:\Users\lsaguisag\bin\operadriver.exe

WARNING: Path 'C:\Users\lsaguisag\bin' is not in the PATH environment variable.

In the above example, a version was specified for Chrome and Opera while no version was specified for Firefox so the latest version of geckodriver was implicitly downloaded.

Command line options

usage: webdrivermanager [-h] [–downloadpath F] [–linkpath F] browser [browser …]

Tool for downloading and installing WebDriver binaries.

positional arguments:

browser Browser to download the corresponding WebDriver

binary. Valid values are: “chrome”, “firefox”, “gecko”, “mozilla”, “opera”. Optionally specify a version number of the WebDriver binary as follows: “browser:version” e.g. “chrome:2.39”. If no version number is specified, the latest available version of the WebDriver binary will be downloaded.

optional arguments:

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

--downloadpath F, -d F

Where to download the webdriver binaries

--linkpath F, -l F

Where to link the webdriver binary to. Defaults to

TODOs

• Test on Linux

RELEASES

• 0.2

  • Initial release, support for installing package directly to python virtualenv directory

  • Added support to set install location via –downloadpath and –linkpath options

• 0.3

  • Prevent unnecessary calls to webdriver provides when calculating download urls and paths to store them.

  • various code cleanups

License

This is released under an MIT license. See the LICENSE file in this repository for more information.

Consult the license terms of the providers of the WebDriver downloads prior to downloading / using the WebDrivers.