support for custom chromedriver

[duderonomy]

Please forgive if this capability already exists but possibly undocumented.

I need to specify a custom chromedriver binary that is not obtained from Google's chromedriver project repo.

In my case the a SDK from 2 years ago has a chromedriver binary that I must use for testing. There are no exceptions or workarounds available.

Can webdriver-manager be used to support a custom chromedriver?

[cnishina]

2 years ago would be around chromedriver 2.24? You could download that version with webdriver-manager update --versions.chrome 2.24 and you could run it with webdriver-manager start --versions.chrome 2.24. I am not sure what compatibility issues you might have with the selenium server.

If you need a custom chromedriver binary, you could start it up with the java command. I believe the java command is logged on every webdriver-manager start. This means you could specify your own binary and run it yourself.

What you could do:
In the webdriver-manager start command, specify the --out_dir path to a folder with your binaries and a file with update-config.json file. The update-config.json should have the following:

{
  "chrome": {"last": "/full/path/to/chromedriver"},
  "standalone": {"last": "/full/path/to/standalone.jar"}
}

Closing this issue. If this is still an issue, please open up an issue on StackOverflow with the webdriver-manager tag. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/webdriver-manager