How to use Webdriver manager in Robot Framework?

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.