How to use Webdriver manager in Robot Framework? - selenium

Question

In selenium I used webdriver manager through a command:
driver = webdriver.Chrome(Chromedrivermanager().install())
Is there a webdriver manager use for the robot framework? I would like the webdriver manager to download automatically when running the test script without additional interference.

Answer 1

My solution for using this with Robot Framework was with a python library that I called chromedriversync.
chromedriversync.py:
from selenium import webdriver
from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
def get_chromedriver_path():
driver_path = ChromeDriverManager().install()
print(driver_path)
return driver_path
Then, in my robotframework tests, I add
Library chromedriversync.py
${chromedriver_path}= chromedriversync.Get Chromedriver Path
Create Webdriver chrome executable_path=${chromedriver_path}
Go to www.google.com
I just use the chromedrivermanager install method's returned path variable, to supply to the Open Browser Robot Framework keyword.

Answer 2

The only thing that i found in internet is that Youn need to install webdrivermanager with command :
pip install webdrivermanager
and you launch this command before your script:
webdrivermanager chrome
robot --outputdir ./results/Robot-results ./TestSuits/*
NB: your browser (Chrome) has to be updated too : (Ubuntu)
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable

Answer 3

There are two web driver managers as shown below,
If you use this one, you need to do one additional step on the command line, you cannot proceed with the test code unless you execute the below command, as this is part of the webdrivermanager setup.
webdrivermanager -
webdrivermanager 0.7.4
command-line step -
webdrivermanager chrome:2.38 firefox opera:v.2.35
webdriver-manager 2.3.0
You need to do the following to use webdriver-manager, did you notice something, there is nothing which needs to be done anything specific to webdriver-manager, BEAUTY of making use of robotframework. nice!!!
code
1. pip install webdriver-manager robotframework robotframework-seleniumlibrary
(prjenv) 09:37 PM##~::>pip list
Package Version
------------------------------ ----------
certifi 2018.11.29
chardet 3.0.4
colorama 0.4.1
configparser 4.0.2
crayons 0.3.0
idna 2.8
pip 19.2.3
requests 2.22.0
robotframework 3.1.2
robotframework-seleniumlibrary 4.1.0
selenium 3.141.0
setuptools 40.8.0
urllib3 1.25.6
webdriver-manager 2.2.0
wheel 0.32.3
2. create a file sample.robot
***Settings***
Library SeleniumLibrary
***Test Cases***
Sample Webdriver
[Tags] wd0
[Documentation] Sample invocation using WD
Open Browser http://google.com ff
Close All Browsers
3. execute the file as follows
robot *.robot
Output
========
(prjenv) 09:38 PM##~::>robot *.robot
==============================================================================
Sam
==============================================================================
Sample Webdriver :: Sample invocation using WD | PASS |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sam | PASS |
1 critical test, 1 passed, 0 failed
1 test total, 1 passed, 0 failed
==============================================================================
Output: /Users/apachemain/output.xml
Log: /Users/apachemain/log.html
Report: /Users/apachemain/report.html
THAT'S IT!!!

Answer 4

in the cmd terminal
pip install webdrivermanager
webdrivermanager firefox chrome --linkpath /usr/yourdir
as for automatic updates you could make a batch file .bat (just cmd input) with the last command (it will update the version automatically) and set it to a windows scheduler
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-create-and-run-batch-file-windows-10
https://www.digitalcitizen.life/how-create-task-basic-task-wizard