Using Google Chrome in Selenium VBA (Installation Steps)

I am having problems even setting up Selenium for VBA. I have been reading online on what to do, download the selenium (https://github.com/florentbr/SeleniumBasic/releases/tag/v2.0.9.0) add extension and etc. However, I am still struggling to get it to work.

Even writing a simple code like the following which I have found online:

Public Sub Demo()
    Dim d As WebDriver
    Set d = New ChromeDriver
    Const URL = "https://www.google.com/"

    With d
        .Start "Chrome"
        .get URL
        .FindElementById("lst-ib").SendKeys "Selenium basic GitHub"
         .FindElementsByTag("form")(1).FindElementByCss("input[value='Google Search']").Click
        '.Quit
    End With
End Sub

Gives me an Automation error.

I would like to use google chrome in the same way as internet explorer. I would appreciate any help with setting up selenium , and I know my question can be seen as silly.

Solution 1:

First of all, go to control panel and uninstall previous installation of selenium and then follow the steps 1- Download the latest version of chrome and make sure of the version of Chrome from Help >> About Google Chrome. You would see something like that Version 75.0.3770.142 (Official Build) (32-bit)

2- Download the latest version from the LINK

3- Download the chromedriver from the follwoing LINK Make sure of the version that suits your chrome version As for the Google Chrome version I posted the most suitable version of chromedriver is ChromeDriver 75.0.3770.140

4. Now setup SeleniumBasic >> After setup unzip the chromedriver file chromedriver_win32.zip and copy the chromedriver.exe to the path of selenium Here's two possibilties: First >> C:\Program Files\SeleniumBasic Second >> C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\SeleniumBasic Copy the chromedriver.exe to the SeleniumBasic path

5. Open new blank excel file >> Press Alt + F11 (Visual Basic Editor) >> Tools >> References >> Selenium Type Library

6. Insert new module and paste the following code to test

Sub Test()
    Dim bot         As New WebDriver
    
    bot.Start "chrome", "https://www.google.com"
    bot.Get "/"
    Stop
End Sub

Solution 2:

I degraded chrome.exe to one version lower downloads (off the selenium chrome webdriver site) in Users/?/AppData/Local/SeleniumBasic directory and it worked. ..running windows 10.