Unfortunately, Chromedriver always is version-specific to the Chrome version you have installed. So when you pack your python code AND a chromedriver via PyInstaller in a deployable .exe-file for Windows, it will not work in most cases as you won't be able to have all chromedriver versions in the .exe-file.
Anyone knows a way on how to download the correct chromedriver from the website automatically?
If not, I'll come up with a code to download the zip-file and unpack it to temp.
Thanks!
Here is the other solution, where webdriver_manager does not support. This script will get the latest chrome driver version downloaded.
import requests
import wget
import zipfile
import os
# get the latest chrome driver version number
url = 'https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE'
response = requests.get(url)
version_number = response.text
# build the donwload url
download_url = "https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/" + version_number +"/chromedriver_win32.zip"
# download the zip file using the url built above
latest_driver_zip = wget.download(download_url,'chromedriver.zip')
# extract the zip file
with zipfile.ZipFile(latest_driver_zip, 'r') as zip_ref:
zip_ref.extractall() # you can specify the destination folder path here
# delete the zip file downloaded above
os.remove(latest_driver_zip)