Switch to ChromeDriverManager due some issues with download the chrome driver

crawl4ai/crawler_strategy.py

@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
 from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
 from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
 from selenium.common.exceptions import InvalidArgumentException
+from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service as ChromeService
+from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
+
 import logging
 import base64
 from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
@@ -118,10 +121,15 @@ class LocalSeleniumCrawlerStrategy(CrawlerStrategy):
         }
 
         # chromedriver_autoinstaller.install()
-        import chromedriver_autoinstaller
-        crawl4ai_folder = os.path.join(Path.home(), ".crawl4ai")
-        chromedriver_path = chromedriver_autoinstaller.utils.download_chromedriver(crawl4ai_folder, False)
+        # import chromedriver_autoinstaller
+        # crawl4ai_folder = os.path.join(Path.home(), ".crawl4ai")
+        # driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=ChromeService(ChromeDriverManager().install()), options=self.options)
+        # chromedriver_path = chromedriver_autoinstaller.install()
+        # chromedriver_path = chromedriver_autoinstaller.utils.download_chromedriver()
         # self.service = Service(chromedriver_autoinstaller.install())
+        
+        
+        chromedriver_path = ChromeDriverManager().install()
         self.service = Service(chromedriver_path)
         self.service.log_path = "NUL"
         self.driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=self.service, options=self.options)

main.py

@@ -49,7 +49,9 @@ templates = Jinja2Templates(directory=__location__ + "/pages")
 @lru_cache()
 def get_crawler():
     # Initialize and return a WebCrawler instance
-    return WebCrawler(verbose = True)
+    crawler = WebCrawler(verbose = True)
+    crawler.warmup()
+    return crawler
 
 class CrawlRequest(BaseModel):
     urls: List[str]

requirements.txt

@@ -20,3 +20,4 @@ torch==2.3.1
 onnxruntime==1.18.0
 tokenizers==0.19.1
 pillow==10.3.0
+webdriver-manager==4.0.1