Automatically Keep Selenium ChromeDriver Updated with UpdateChromeDriver

Introduction

In a recent Python community chat, a member asked how to keep the Selenium ChromeDriver up‑to‑date when Chrome releases new versions.

Solution

The recommended approach is to use the UpdateChromeDriver package, which automatically downloads the matching driver version.

# Example command
pip install UpdateChromeDriver --index-url https://pypi.org/simple/ -U

After installing, Selenium 4 will automatically use the latest driver without manual intervention.

Conclusion

This method simplifies Selenium automation scripts by removing the need to manually track ChromeDriver releases.