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electron-chromedriver
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Simple node module to download the ChromeDriver version for Electron.
The major version of this library tracks the major version of the Electron
versions released. So if you are using Electron 2.0.x you would want to use
an electron-chromedriver dependency of ~2.0.0 in your package.json file.
This library is used by spectron.
npm install --save-dev electron-chromedriver
chromedriver -h
You can set the ELECTRON_MIRROR or NPM_CONFIG_ELECTRON_MIRROR
environment variables to use a custom base URL for downloading ChromeDriver zips.
# Electron mirror for China
ELECTRON_MIRROR="https://npm.taobao.org/mirrors/electron/"
# Local mirror
# Example of requested URL: http://localhost:8080/1.2.0/chromedriver-v2.21-darwin-x64.zip
ELECTRON_MIRROR="http://localhost:8080/"
The version downloaded can be overriden by setting the ELECTRON_CUSTOM_VERSION environment variable.
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Electron ChromeDriver
The npm package electron-chromedriver receives a total of 8,485 weekly downloads. As such, electron-chromedriver popularity was classified as popular.
We found that electron-chromedriver demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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