Install ChromeDriver

Install the ChromeDriver to automatically control your Google Chrome browser programmatically using Selenium. Place the ChromeDriver binaries directly. It is assumed that it is a 64-bit version of Linux. Confirmed on Ubuntu 18.

google-chrome --version

version.

Google Chrome 96.0.4664.45

Download ChromeDriver from the ChromeDriver download page. Download the same version of Chrome above to avoid problems.

cd /usr/local/src
export CHROME_VERSION=96.0.4664.45
sudo wget https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/$CHROME_VERSION/chromedriver_linux64.zip
sudo unzip chromedriver_linux64.zip
sudo mv chromedriver /usr/local/bin/

Check the version of ChromeDriver.

chromedriver --version

The output result of the version.

ChromeDriver 96.0.4664.45 (76e4c1bb2ab4671b8beba3444e61c0f17584b2fc-refs/branch-heads/4664@{#947})

Install Google Chrome

The ChromeDriver is required to automatically control the Google Chrome browser programmatically using Selenium. Google Chrome itself is required separately.

Install Google Chrome

How to programmatically perform JavaScript-compatible web scraping?

To programmatically perform JavaScript-enabled web scraping, you need the Selenium library provided by the programming language. Perl- Selenium::Remote::Driver, PHP, Pyhton, Ruby and other Selenium libraries.

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