How to download Chromedriver for Selenium

Chrome Driver - WebDriver for Chrome

WebDriver is an open-source tool for automating web application testing across various browsers, offering features like page navigation, user input simulation, and JavaScript execution.

ChromeDriver is a standalone server that supports the W3C WebDriver standard, specifically for automating Chrome on both desktop (Mac, Linux, Windows, ChromeOS) and Android platforms.

The latest available release versions are for the following platforms: Linux64, Mac-Arm64, Mac-x64, Win64, and Win32.

How to identify chromedriver version?

Before you download ChromeDriver, you need to know the version of your Google Chrome browser to ensure compatibility.

Open your Google Chrome, then click on the three vertical dots (menu) in the top-right corner.

Go to "Help" > "About Google Chrome" to check your chrome version.

You can also type: chrome://version

How to download Chromedriver?

Find the version of ChromeDriver that matches your version of Chrome.

Depending on your operating system (Windows, macOS, Linux), download the appropriate file.

To download an older version of ChromeDriver.exe, modify the link to match the desired version.

For example:

chromedriver 130.0.6723.69 download

https://storage.googleapis.com/chrome-for-testing-public/130.0.6723.69/win64/chromedriver-win64.zip

chromedriver 128.0.6613.137 download

https://storage.googleapis.com/chrome-for-testing-public/128.0.6613.137/win64/chromedriver-win64.zip

..etc

ChromeDriver.exe Lastest Releases Version

Stable version: chromedriver 131.0.6778.69 (r1368529)

Beta version: chromedriver 132.0.6834.6 (r1381561)

Dev version: chromedriver 132.0.6821.2 (r1378299)

Canary version: chromedriver 133.0.6835.3 (r1382105)

After downloading the file, you can extract the .zip file to a directory of your choice. You should see an executable file named chromedriver (or chromedriver.exe on Windows).