Google Chrome Driver

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Overview

ChromeDriver is a separate executable that Selenium WebDriver uses to control Chrome. The executable is chromedriver. ChromeDriver expects you to have Chrome installed in the default location for your platform. ChromeDriver can be forced to use a custom location, by setting a special capability (TODO: https://sites.google.com/chromium.org/driver/capabilities)

Controlling a Chrome Browser from Java

A Java program can control a browser via the Chrome driver:

Operations

Installation

Mac

brew install --cask chromedriver
brew upgrade --cask chromedriver

Version

chromedriver --version