Using Selenium on Mac Chrome - macos

Question

Recently got a mac and was able to run Mozilla without any issues but having trouble installing chrome extensions and running it for selenium. Can someone guide me through the process of installing the extension and running selenium on Mac chrome.

Answer 1

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:
$ cd $HOME/Downloads
$ wget http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.22/chromedriver_mac32.zip
$ unzip chromedriver_mac32.zip
$ mkdir -p $HOME/bin
$ mv chromedriver $HOME/bin
$ echo "export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
Source: install and set path to chromedriver on mac or linux
You should then read Getting started with ChromeDriver on Desktop, in particular the sample code which shows how you map the path to the executable and instantiate ChromeDriver. If you have a reference to the driver in the PATH variable, you can omit the configuration line.
You can install both packed (.crx file) and unpacked (directory) extensions via ChromeDriver. See the code snippets for setting either up here.
If you were using Selenium IDE for FireFox instead, there is no version available for Chrome. The best alternative I know of is iMacros for Chrome.

Answer 2

Sometimes you will face a problem with the old version of chromedriver and when you try to install it using this command:
brew cask install chromedriver
It shows you the following:
Error: It seems there is already a Binary at '/usr/local/bin/chromedriver'; not linking.
However, you can the following step:
brew cask reinstall chromedriver
If it still shows you the same error, you can remove it with the following command
rm /usr/local/bin/chromedriver
and install it again
brew cask install chromedriver
You should have the last updated version of chrome driver

Answer 3

I think that the easy way for running mac osx, chrome and selenium together is like this on mac os terminal:
# download selenium jar
curl -L0 https://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/3.9/selenium-server-standalone-3.9.1.jar -o selenium-server-standalone.jar
# install chromedriver using cask
brew cask install chromedriver
# start chrome driver
brew services start chromedriver
#==> Successfully started `chromedriver` (label:homebrew.mxcl.chromedriver)
# start selenium server
java -jar selenium-server-standalone.jar
#14:38:20.684 INFO - Selenium build info: version: '3.9.1', revision: '63f7b50'
#14:38:20.685 INFO - Launching a standalone Selenium Server on port 4444

Answer 4

I guess you have a couple of options.
either manually downloading chrome driver and adding it to your PATH,
or using webdriver_manager package
Manually downloading chromedriver
The first option is to manually download chromedriver and add it your PATH:
Step 1: Download chromedriver
# You can find more recent/old versions at http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/
wget http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/81.0.4044.69/chromedriver_mac64.zip
Step 2: Add chromedriver to your PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin)
unzip chromedriver_mac64.zip
cp chromedriver /usr/local/bin
You should now be able to run
from selenium import webdriver
browser = webdriver.Chrome()
browser.get('http://localhost:8000')
without any issues
Using webdriver_manager
Alternatively, you can use webdriver_manager that contains most web drivers.
First install it with pip:
pip install webdriver_manager
And for Chrome in particular, you should do
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
browser = webdriver.Chrome(ChromeDriverManager().install())
browser.get('http://localhost:8000')

Answer 5

One way is if you have homebrew on your mac, then on terminal, use this command
brew install chromedriver
Then you need to download chromedriver on your machine, do it from
http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html
Download latest version
It will look like, "chromedriver_mac32.zip"
(doesn't matter if its 32 bit, it will work for 64 bit MAC as well)
Use this code for open Chrome if your chromedriver that you downloaded is inside your project folder and looks like this
..Project folder/Chrome/chromedriver
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver",
System.getProperty("user.dir")+"/Chrome/chromedriver");
driver=new ChromeDriver();

Answer 6

Use chrome driver, download from here
https://sites.google.com/chromium.org/driver/
Add the file in pycharm project, then use this cmd to disable permission pop up
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine chromedriver
Also in python program, use these lines, make sure chrome is installed in Applications
import selenium
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.binary_location = '/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome'
driver = webdriver.Chrome('/Users/<Username>/PycharmProjects/selenium_py/chromedriver')
driver.get('https://www.google.com')

Answer 7

Install chromedriver directly with brew install chromedriver.
The chrome driver is located in /usr/local/bin/chromedriver.
If you reload your terminal with source ~/.bashrc or source ~/.zshrc, depending on your setup or restart the terminal if should work.
If it does not work add the chrome driver to your PATH. You need to add /usr/local/bin/chromedriverto your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc by adding the line: export PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH.

Answer 8

The easiest way to do this after downloading the right chromedriver is with the oneliner:
sudo chmod a+x chromedriver && sudo mv chromedriver /usr/local/bin/chromedriver