[How To] [C#] Dynamically download Edge Webdriver

[miksch123]

Hello, This is not an issue but rather a way to dynamically download the correct Edge webdriver depending on what edge version is currently installed on your system. I hope some of you might find this helpful. The same can be donw for Mac OS and Linux. I just wanted to leave a bit of an inspiration.

public void DownloadEdgeDriver()
        {
            FileVersionInfo info = null;
            string version = null;
            string drivername = null;
            if(RuntimeInformation.IsOSPlatform(OSPlatform.Windows))
            {
                if(!File.Exists(tmpfolder + "edgeversion.txt"))
                    File.Create(tmpfolder  + "edgeversion.txt").Close();

                if(Environment.Is64BitOperatingSystem is true)
                {
                    info = FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo(@"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe");
                    drivername = "edgedriver_win64.zip";
                }
                else
                {
                    info = FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo(@"C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe");
                    drivername = "edgedriver_win32.zip";
                }
                
                version = info.FileVersion;
                string current = File.ReadAllText(tmpfolder  + "edgeversion.txt").ToString();
                if (version != current)
                {
                    if(File.Exists(driverfolder + "\\*.zip"))
                        File.Delete(driverfolder  + "\\*.zip");
                    if(File.Exists(driverfolder  + "\\msedgedriver.exe"))
                        File.Delete(driverfolder  + "\\msedgedriver.exe");            
                    
                    using (var client = new WebClient()) 
                    {
                        client.DownloadFile("https://msedgedriver.azureedge.net/" + version + "/" + drivername, driverfolder  + "\\" + drivername);
                    }
                    if(File.Exists(driverfolder   + "\\msedgedriver.exe"))
                        File.Delete(driverfolder   + "\\msedgedriver.exe");
                    if(Directory.Exists(driverfolder   + "\\Driver_Notes"))
                        Directory.Delete(driverfolder   + "\\Driver_Notes", true);
                    ZipFile.ExtractToDirectory(driverfolder   + "\\" + drivername, Configuration.DefaultBinDirWin);
                    File.WriteAllText(tmpfolder + "edgeversion.txt", version);
                }
            }
        }

[zaphodikus]

if using python bindings, you can read up https://pypi.org/project/webdriver-manager/ pip install webdriver-manager

then, in code from webdriver_manager.microsoft import EdgeChromiumDriverManager mgr = EdgeChromiumDriverManager() driver_path = mgr.install() EdgeDriverWrapper._driver = Edge(executable_path=driver_path)

literally you can do this in 2 lines with that module

[kwiremo]

Thank you @miksch123. This was very helpful.

[bwalderman]

Thank you @miksh123. The repo is now deprecated but I'm leaving this issue open with the conversation locked so that people can still find this sample.