How to upgrade the chromedriver associated with Appium?

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I am doing automation on a hybrid app on Android. To automate some objects, I need to context switch the driver to iFrame. While doing that , I am facing the below error
org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: call function result missing ‘value’
(Session info: chrome=65.0.3325.109)
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.33.506106 (8a06c39c4582fbfbab6966dbb1c38a9173bfb1a2),platform=Mac OS X 10.12.6 x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)

I did look up and it seems to be a compatibility issue of chrome driver 2.33 with google chrome version 65. As per the suggested solution, I did download the latest chrome driver 2.37 and have also set my PATH in the bash_profile( I am using MAC with MacOS Sierra) to the latest chromedriver. However, appium refuses to take the latest chromedriver and still works with the old one. I also tried the layman’s solutions of restarting the system, re loading the environment variables etc to no luck.

How can we make appium pick up the latest chromedriver?

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think this will fix it

npm install appium-chromedriver --chromedriver_version=“2.37”.

Trying it out

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That did not fix it, appium says my chromedriver is still 2.33.Can anyone please help?

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you can try downloading from https://github.com/appium/appium-chromedriver
and replace in your local folder

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I ran into the same issue and found this solution.


Download the latest chromedriver manually from: https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/
Then you can do stuff like this to use the manually downloaded chromedriver instead of the one appium uses by default.
appium --chromedriver-executable ~/downloads/chromedriver

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@mark0203 : Thank you!!! I did “appium --chromedriver-executable ~/downloads/chromedriver” while starting the appium server and it did work :slight_smile:

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