download and install latest geckodriver for linux or mac (selenium webdriver)

geckodriver-install.sh

#!/bin/bash
# download and install latest geckodriver for linux or mac.
# required for selenium to drive a firefox browser.

install_dir="/usr/local/bin"
json=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/latest)
if [[ $(uname) == "Darwin" ]]; then
    url=$(echo "$json" | jq -r '.assets[].browser_download_url | select(contains("macos"))')
elif [[ $(uname) == "Linux" ]]; then
    url=$(echo "$json" | jq -r '.assets[].browser_download_url | select(contains("linux64"))')
else
    echo "can't determine OS"
    exit 1
fi
curl -s -L "$url" | tar -xz
chmod +x geckodriver
sudo mv geckodriver "$install_dir"
echo "installed geckodriver binary in $install_dir"

Without using jq command, you can simply grep for the file address:

geckodriver_gz=$(curl https://api.github.com/repos/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/latest \
    | grep -Eoh 'https.*linux64\.tar\.gz')
curl -sL "$geckodriver_gz" | tar -xz --checkpoint=.10

(The tar checkpoint option is to print dots progress)

Hi, thanks for this script! Very helpful.

I copied and used it for Chromedriver as well

For chrome driver, it is a ZIP not GZ archive, so you can use JAR command to extract:
curl -L $chromedriver_zip_url | jar xv

Thanks for sharing!

First of all many thanks to all people that has contributed to this script.

@cgoldberg in case that you want to include couple of lines to install jq dependency here it is the code (I can't submit a Pull Request in gist).

Thanks.

Thanks for the contribution, guys! ✌️

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I got this error on linux:

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
chmod: cannot access 'geckodriver': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat 'geckodriver': No such file or directory

I realized the the value of $url was returning 2 urls:

https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.27.0/geckodriver-v0.27.0-linux64.tar.gz https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.27.0/geckodriver-v0.27.0-linux64.tar.gz.asc

So I splitted the $url and got the first one in the script below using url=$(echo $url | cut -f1 -d" ").

#!/bin/bash
# download and install latest geckodriver for linux or mac.
# required for selenium to drive a firefox browser.

install_dir="/usr/local/bin"
json=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/latest)
if [[ $(uname) == "Darwin" ]]; then
    url=$(echo "$json" | jq -r '.assets[].browser_download_url | select(contains("macos"))')
elif [[ $(uname) == "Linux" ]]; then
    url=$(echo "$json" | jq -r '.assets[].browser_download_url | select(contains("linux64"))')
else
    echo "can't determine OS"
    exit 1
fi
url=$(echo $url | cut -f1 -d" ") # new line
curl -s -L "$url" | tar -xz
chmod +x geckodriver
sudo mv geckodriver "$install_dir"
echo "installed geckodriver binary in $install_dir"

I hope it helps someone. 🚀

I had trouble with the original script - @brunoao86's script works.

import json
import requests
import platform
import sys
import tarfile
import urllib
import os
latest_release = requests.get("https://api.github.com/repos/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/latest")
host_version = "linux"+platform.architecture()[0][:2]
for version in latest_release.json()['assets']:
    if host_version in version['name'] and ".asc" not in version['name']:
        local_filename, headers = urllib.request.urlretrieve(version['browser_download_url'])
        tarfile.open(local_filename).extractall(os.path.dirname(sys.executable))
        urllib.request.urlcleanup()

installs on virtualenv of the executed script

Install using brew or apt-get - https://gist.github.com/MichaelCurrin/b8f616b3182ea98ef88c3042b988402c

A different version of the script modification provided by @brunoao86, that I use is to utilize jq further and dropping the asc urls right in the search. See below for the full script

#!/bin/bash
# download and install latest geckodriver for linux or mac.
# required for selenium to drive a firefox browser.

install_dir="/usr/local/bin"
json=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/latest)
if [[ $(uname) == "Darwin" ]]; then
    url=$(echo "$json" | jq -r '.assets[].browser_download_url | select(contains("macos")) | select(contains("asc") | not)')
elif [[ $(uname) == "Linux" ]]; then
    url=$(echo "$json" | jq -r '.assets[].browser_download_url | select(contains("linux64")) | select(contains("asc") | not)')
else
    echo "can't determine OS"
    exit 1
fi
curl -s -L "$url" | tar -xz
chmod +x geckodriver
sudo mv geckodriver "$install_dir"
echo "installed geckodriver binary in $install_dir"

Will the latest version of geckodriver driver work with the latest version of firefox-esr at any point in time?