chromedriver.exe installed by this module is not found by check in selenium-webdriver on Windows

[amb26]

The check in selenium-webdriver on the win32 platform is that the executable chromedriver.exe is on the path - https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/blob/master/javascript/node/selenium-webdriver/chrome.js#L189 - this module doesn't achieve this - instead what is put on the path is the driver chromedriver.cmd and a shell script chromedriver. Instead, chromedriver.exe is installed at the deeply nested path $node_modules\chromedriver\lib\chromedriver where it is very unlikely to be on the system path. This makes the node-chromedriver unusable for one of its main purposes, to automatically install chromedriver in such a way that the selenium-webdriver wrapper picks it up.

[giggio]

You should be able to get the path to the binary using the exported path property, and then configure selenium. I guess selenium is by far the most common use case for Chromedriver, I myself use it often, and it is not at all unusable, on the contrary.

[quantuminformation]

I don't see the .exe anywhere on the download.

I'm using it with nightwatch and it works fine on a mac:

  "selenium" : {
    "start_process" : true,
    "server_path" : "./node_modules/selenium-server-standalone-jar/jar/selenium-server-standalone-3.7.1.jar",
    "log_path" : "",
    "host" : "127.0.0.1",
    "port" : 4444,
    "cli_args" : {
      "webdriver.chrome.driver" : "./node_modules/chromedriver/bin/chromedriver",
      "webdriver.ie.driver" : ""
    }
  }

Based on this repo, what would you advice to get it to work on windows?

[giggio]

@quantuminformation looking at the chromedriver_mac64.zip on you directory it looks like you are on a Mac. On a Windows it will download chromedriver_win32.zip.

[quantuminformation]

Ah makes sense, thx.

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