chrome driver v114 not found for mac arm. Electron v25 support outdated?

[jgresham]

I upgraded to electron v27 and chrome driver v118 was found for mac arm. Is there a documented min version of electron for mac arm?

[seanpoulter]

If I understand correctly, you're asking two questions:

• What is the earliest version of Electron that had ChromeDriver for Mac (Darwin) ARM? (tl;dr - v11)
• What is the earliest version supported by this repo? (tl;dr - Not sure)

I'm not sure about the repo but I can help list the versions of Electron that shipped with ChromeDriver for Mac on ARM. The electron/electron Releases include assets like chromedriver-{tag}-darwin-arm64.zip. It's pretty quick to use the GitHub gh CLI tool to use the API and look for that file. In pseudocode:

For each release starting from v29 and working backwards:
    Find the release ID by tag name
    List the assets by release ID
    And filter down to only include chromedriver-<tag>-darwin-arm64.zip

    If it doesn't include the file, break

What does that look like?

#!/bin/bash

owner=electron
repo=electron

for majorVersion in $(seq 29 -1 0); do
    tag="v${majorVersion}.0.0"

    # Get release by tag name
    # https://docs.github.com/en/rest/releases/releases?apiVersion=2022-11-28#get-a-release-by-tag-name
    #
    # Extract the "id" field using jq.
    release_id=$( gh api "/repos/${owner}/${repo}/releases/tags/${tag}" | jq -r '.id' )

    # List release assets
    # https://docs.github.com/en/rest/releases/assets?apiVersion=2022-11-28#list-release-assets
    #
    # Print the assets that include chromedriver-{tag}-darwin-arm64.zip.
    if ! gh api "/repos/${owner}/${repo}/releases/${release_id}/assets" | jq -r 'map(.name) | .[]' | grep "chromedriver-${tag}-darwin-arm64.zip"; then
        break
    fi
done

This outputs the following

chromedriver-v29.0.0-darwin-arm64.zip
chromedriver-v28.0.0-darwin-arm64.zip
chromedriver-v27.0.0-darwin-arm64.zip
chromedriver-v26.0.0-darwin-arm64.zip
chromedriver-v25.0.0-darwin-arm64.zip
chromedriver-v24.0.0-darwin-arm64.zip
chromedriver-v23.0.0-darwin-arm64.zip
chromedriver-v22.0.0-darwin-arm64.zip
chromedriver-v21.0.0-darwin-arm64.zip
chromedriver-v20.0.0-darwin-arm64.zip
chromedriver-v19.0.0-darwin-arm64.zip
chromedriver-v18.0.0-darwin-arm64.zip
chromedriver-v17.0.0-darwin-arm64.zip
chromedriver-v16.0.0-darwin-arm64.zip
chromedriver-v15.0.0-darwin-arm64.zip
chromedriver-v14.0.0-darwin-arm64.zip
chromedriver-v13.0.0-darwin-arm64.zip
chromedriver-v12.0.0-darwin-arm64.zip
chromedriver-v11.0.0-darwin-arm64.zip

That makes sense. The M1 was released in November 2020 and v10 was release in late August 2020.

[jgresham]

Thanks for the script and info @seanpoulter! I've made changes and upgraded electron and no longer have this issue.