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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.
FAQs
Electron ChromeDriver
The npm package electron-chromedriver receives a total of 11,371 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 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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