How to Install Selenium WebDriver on MacOS? (original) (raw)

Last Updated : 6 Dec, 2025

Selenium WebDriver is a web framework that permits you to execute cross-browser tests. This tool is used for automating web-based application testing to verify that it performs expectedly.

Installation Procedure:

Follow the below steps to install Selenium WebDriver on macOS:

**Step 1: Install the latest Python3 in MacOS

Step 2: Download and install the latest Chrome and check your Chrome version from "chrome://settings/help"

**Step 3: Download the Chrome WebDriver Zip File matching with your Chrome version and Apple Chip from here and extract the **chromedriver.

**Step 4: Copy the **chromedriver and paste it to ****"/usr/local/bin"** (If this folder doesn't exist then create one)

**Step 5: Open a terminal inside the **bin folder and run the following command so that MacOS can verify the app.

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine chromedriver

**Step 6: Upgrade your pip to avoid errors during installation.

pip3 install --upgrade pip

**Step 7: Install selenium library via pip.

**pip3 install selenium

Verifying the Installation:

Run the python code below in your system and it should open up "https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/" in your chrome browser automatically.

Python `

from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service import time

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() options.add_argument("--start-maximized")

Path to chromedriver

service = Service("/usr/local/bin/chromedriver")

driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service, options=options) driver.get("https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/") time.sleep(10) driver.quit()

print("Done")

`

**Browser Output:

Chrome Browser

**Terminal Output:

Terminal