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  1. Download Selenium Chromedriver For Mac The ChromeDriver getting started guide isn’t super helpful if you are unfamiliar with including the ChromeDriver location in your PATH environment variable. (The PATH variable helps Chrome find the downloaded ChromeDriver exe).
  2. Based on the local Chrome browser version, click on the link for download. In the next page, choose the option chromedrivermac64.zip link for download for MacOS. Once the download is completed, a zip file gets created. We have to unzip it and we shall have a file called chromedriver.

If you want to use Selenium WebDriver with Chrome, first download ChromeDriver - WebDriver for Chrome. This can be installed via Homebrew with brew install chromedriver, or manually by downloading, extracting, moving and setting the PATH as follows. It comes bundled with the latest version of Chromedriver, installed through the npm package appium-chromedriver (Github: appium-chromedriver). With each update to Chromedriver there is an increase in the minimum supported version of Chrome, such that older devices are often unable to be automated with the bundled version.

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Appium supports automating Android web pages (in Chrome and the built-in Browser) andhybrid apps that are Chrome-backed, by managing a Chromedriverinstance and proxying commands to it when necessary. It comes bundled with thelatest version of Chromedriver, installed through thenpm package appium-chromedriver(Github: appium-chromedriver).

With each update to Chromedriver there is an increase in the minimumsupported version of Chrome, such that older devices are often unable to be automatedwith the bundled version. In the Appium server logs there will be an error like:

To get around this it is necessary to provide Appium with a proper Chromedriver binary,that matchesto the Chrome engine version running on the device under test.Read the Chromedriver/Chrome compatibility topic below to know more about finding a matching Chromedriver executable.

There are several ways to provide a customized Chromedriver to Appium:

When installing the server

Provide --chromedriver_version command line argument containing the actual version number

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Or specify the Chromedriver version in the CHROMEDRIVER_VERSION environment variable,e.g,

This can also be set to LATEST to get the most recent version.

When starting the server

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Chromedriver version can be specified at runtime, by specifying the--chromedriver-executable server flag, along with the full path to theChromedriver executable which was manually downloaded and put to the server file system, e.g.,

When starting a session (manual discovery)

Chromedriver version can be specified in session capabilities, by providing thechromedriverExecutable cap, containing the full path to a matchingChromedriver executable, which must be manually downloaded and put to the server file system.See http://appium.io/docs/en/writing-running-appium/caps/ for more details

When starting a session (automated discovery)

Appium could also try to detect the version of the target Chrome engine anddownload matching chromedriver for it automatically if it does not exist on the local file system.Read the Automatic discovery of compatible Chromedriver topic below for more details.

Chromedriver/Chrome compatibility

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The list of Chromedriver versions and their matching minimumChrome versions could be found at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/appium/appium-chromedriver/master/config/mapping.json

Since version 2.46 Google has changed the rules for Chromedriver versioning, so now the major Chromedriver version corresponds to the major web view/browser version, that it can automate. Follow the Version Selection document in order to manually find the Chromedriver, that supports your current browser/web view if its major version is equal or above 73.

To find the minimum supported browsers for older Chromedriver versions (below 73), get the Chromiumsource code, check out the release commit, and check the variable kMinimumSupportedChromeVersionin the file src/chrome/test/chromedriver/chrome/version.cc. (To find therelease commits, you can use git log --pretty=format:'%h | %s%d' | grep -i 'Release Chromedriver version'.)

The complete list of available Chromedriver releases and release notes is here.

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Automatic discovery of compatible Chromedriver

Beginning with Appium 1.8.0, Appium is able to pick the correct Chromedriver for theversion of Chrome under test. While Appium only comes bundled with the Chromedrivermost recently released at the time of the Appium version's release, more Chromedriverversions can be downloaded and either placed inside the Appium installation (not recommended since upgrading Appium will remove them) or in a custom location,which can be indicated to Appium with the chromedriverExecutableDir desiredcapability. This capability is the absolute path to the directory in which you haveplaced one or more Chromedriver executables.

As well, since new versions of Chromedriver may be available that were not whenan Appium version was released, a custom mapping of Chromedrivers to the minimumChrome version they support can be given to Appium through the chromedriverChromeMappingFiledesired capability. This should be the absolute path to a file with the mappingin it. The contents of the file need to be parsable as a JSON object, like:

Since Appium 1.15.0 there is a possibility to automatically download the necessary chromedriver(s) into chromedriverExecutableDir from the official Google storage. The script will automatically search for the newest chromedriver version that supports the given browser/web view, download it (the hash sum is verified as well for the downloaded archive) and add to the chromedriverChromeMappingFile mapping. Everything, which is needed to be done from your side is to execute the server with chromedriver_autodownload feature enabled (like appium --allow-insecure chromedriver_autodownload).You can also check the Security document for more details on how to control potentially insecure server features.

Troubleshooting network issues

When Appium is installed it needs to download Chromedriver, so there is the possibilitythat there could be network problems that make the install fail.

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By default Chromedriver is retrieved from https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/.To use a mirror of the ChromeDriver binaries use npm config property chromedriver_cdnurl.

Or add the property into your .npmrc file.

Another option is to use PATH variable CHROMEDRIVER_CDNURL.

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It may also be necessary to adjust network proxy and firewall settings to allowthe download to occur.

W3C support

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Chromedriver didn't follow the W3C standard until version 75. If you encounter proxy command error like this issue, please update your Chromedriver version.Old Android devices can't use newer chrome drivers. You can avoid the error if you run tests with the Mobile JSON Wire Protocol.Since major version 75 W3C mode is the default one for Chromedriver, although it could be still switched to JSONWP one depending on the passed session capabilities.You can read the history of W3C support in Chromedriver from downloads.

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