How to work with selenium-chrome-driver in Maven without ChromeDriver.exe

I add the below dependency and code for Opening Chrome,but browser is not opening.

<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-chrome-driver</artifactId>
<version>2.50.0</version>
</dependency>

My code :-

package example;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;`
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;
public class DepChrome {

    @Test
    public void testBrowser() {
    WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
    driver.manage().window().maximize();
    }
}

From selenium 4.6.0 we do not need to explicitly handle this as now drivers are self capable using selenium manager. It's a beta verison as of now. refer:

https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/selenium_manager/
https://www.selenium.dev/blog/2022/introducing-selenium-manager/

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if you are using lower version of selenium due to some reasons or do not want to use default SeleniumManager follow below steps:

Add below dependency as below:

        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.github.bonigarcia</groupId>
            <artifactId>webdrivermanager</artifactId>
            <version>5.9.2</version>
<!--            <scope>test</scope> -->
        </dependency>

Source: copy new dependencies version from below URL:

https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/io.github.bonigarcia/webdrivermanager

use below code :

WebDriver driver = null;
WebDriverManager.chromedriver().browserVersion("77.0.3865.40").setup();
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("start-maximized"); 
options.addArguments("enable-automation"); 
options.addArguments("--no-sandbox"); 
options.addArguments("--disable-infobars");
options.addArguments("--disable-dev-shm-usage");
options.addArguments("--disable-browser-side-navigation"); 
options.addArguments("--disable-gpu"); 
driver = new ChromeDriver(options); 
driver.get("https://www.google.com/"); 

Note: Arguments are optional.

Basically below line of code did the trick, below code to download a specific version

WebDriverManager.chromedriver().browserVersion("77.0.3865.40").setup();

Required version you can get from below URL:

https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html

you can also use below code instead of above, if you are looking for latest dependencies present on above chromedriver URL

WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup();

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OR (Old Way)

You need to give path of chrome binary as below:

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\pathto\\my\\chromedriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("http://www.google.com");

Download the binary of chrome from selenium site as below :- http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=2.21/

Now provide the path of the binary to selenium as :-

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\pathto\\my\\chromedriver.exe");

There is one more thing to take care. if you are using windows then use backward slash \\ and if you are using mac or linux then use forward slash // for setting up the path.

Hope it will help you :)