Installing Selenium For Google Chrome (Windows 10)

This tutorial will show you how to install Selenium for Google Chrome (Windows 10), and optionally Python related dependencies.

Prerequisites:

• Google Chrome Installed on your Windows machine

Guide Outline

1. Install the WebDriver
   1. Check Your Google Chrome Version
   2. Download the ChromeDriver
2. Python Set-Up
   1. Open PowerShell
   2. Verify Python Selenium Installation

Install the WebDriver

WebDriver (ChromeDriver for Chrome) gives Selenium access to control your web-browser.

Check Your Google Chrome Version

• Find Chrome version (remember it for later):

  … → Help → About Chrome

Download the ChromeDriver

• Download the Chromedriver Binary (which matches your Chrome version):

• Extract the chromedriver_win32.zip anywhere.

• Copy the absolute path to chromedriver.exe (remember it for later, it is needed for Python and other scripts).

• You can now delete the chromedriver_win32.zip it will not be needed anymore. Your WebDriver installation is complete.

Python Set-up

prerequisites:

• Python 3 - installed
• pip - Python package manager installed

We will finish the set-up required for running Python based Selenium scripts.

Open PowerShell

Hold shift + mouse2; then click "Open PowerShell window here"

Install Python Selenium Package

In the PowerShell, enter:

pip install selenium

Verify Python Selenium Installation

In the PowerShell, enter:

python

In the Python REPL, enter:

>>> import selenium

If no errors occurred during pip install selenium, and import selenium you are done with your Python set-up.