I needed to run Selenium on macOS for the first time today. Here's how I got it working.
Install the chromedriver binary
If you have homebrew
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This is by far the easiest option:
This also ensures chromedriver is on your path, which means you don't need to use an explicit chromedriver_path later on.
You still need to run it once in the terminal chromedriver to get the macOS error, then allow it in the Security & Privacy preferences - see below.
Without using homebrew
ChromeDriver is available from the official website here: https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloads
Download Chromedriver 79 For Mac
I have Chrome 85 so I downloaded the chromedriver_mac64.zip file from https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=85.0.4183.87/
Unzipping this gave me a chromedriver binary file. I decided to put this in my ~/bin directory.
Chromedriver Download For Macbook Pro
Skipping the error on macOS
The first time I ran it I got an error complaining that the binary has not been signed:
To fix this, go to System Preferences -> Security & Privacy - there was a prompt there about the binary, with an 'open this anyway' button. Clicking that worked around the signing issue.
Installing the Selenium Python driver
I installed Selenium using pip for Python 3:
Since I was planning to use it from a Jupyter Notebook I actually installed it by running the following in a cell in a notebook:
The benefit of running this in the notebook is that you don't need to know the exact path to pip running in the same virtual environment as Jupyter, so I use this trick a lot.
Demonstrating that it works
I ran this in a notebook cell:
This opened a visible Chrome window to https://www.example.com/
This output the following, showing that Selenium is fully working:
Installing geckodriver for Firefox
I got Firefox support working by downloading the geckodriver binary from https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver and copying that to my ~/bin/ directory. Then this worked:
I used wget for the download (rather than clicking the link in my browser) thanks to the warning here: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/testing/geckodriver/Notarization.html
An easier option: install it with Homebrew:
This puts it on the PATH and ensures the code is already signed and does not show a warning. You can then use it like this:
You can close the Firefox window (and terminate the Firefox process) later like this:
Created 2020-10-02T13:06:54-07:00, updated 2020-10-02T15:23:48-07:00 · History · Edit