Install

zendriver-rs is published on crates.io as zendriver. The base crate gives you everything you need for navigation, queries, input, multi-tab, frames, and stealth. Optional Cargo features turn on network interception, the expect() surface, Cloudflare bypass, and the Chrome for Testing downloader.

Basic install

For the standard always-on surface (Browser + Tab + Element + Frame + StealthProfile + queries + input + cookies + storage + screenshots):

[dependencies]
zendriver = "0.1"
tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full"] }

This pulls in zendriver, zendriver-transport, and zendriver-stealth transitively. No system dependencies beyond Chrome (or Chromium / Edge — anything that speaks CDP).

Minimum install

zendriver requires a Tokio runtime. The smallest viable setup:

[dependencies]
zendriver = "0.1"
tokio = { version = "1", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "macros"] }

You give up the convenience features of tokio = "full" but pay less in compile time. The macros feature is required for #[tokio::main] and #[tokio::test]; rt-multi-thread is required by zendriver's internal spawn calls.

Feature matrix

Enable features additively. For example, an automation script that needs to block ads and bypass Cloudflare:

[dependencies]
zendriver = { version = "0.1", features = ["interception", "cloudflare"] }
tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full"] }

A scraper that needs all of it:

[dependencies]
zendriver = { version = "0.1", features = [
    "interception",
    "expect",
    "cloudflare",
    "fetcher",
] }
tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full"] }

Re-exports

zendriver re-exports the types you'll typically need from the sub-crates, so a single use zendriver::* will reach Browser, Tab, Element, Frame, StealthProfile, Platform, Key, KeyModifiers, SpecialKey, ClickOptions, CookieJar, and the Queryable / Evaluable traits. The sub-crate paths (e.g. zendriver::stealth::*, zendriver::interception::*) stay available for the rare cases where you need a type the prelude doesn't surface.

MSRV

zendriver targets Rust 1.75 minimum. The MSRV bumps follow SemVer — a Rust version bump counts as a minor change in the 0.x series and a major change post-1.0. See SEMVER.md in the repository for the full policy.

Platform support

Chrome (or Chromium / Edge / any Chromium-derived browser) must be on $PATH, or you must pass an explicit chrome_path to the builder, or you must enable the fetcher feature and let zendriver download Chrome for Testing at startup.

Verifying the install

A 10-line smoke test you can drop into src/main.rs:

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> zendriver::Result<()> {
    let browser = zendriver::Browser::builder()
        .headless(true)
        .launch()
        .await?;
    let tab = browser.main_tab();
    tab.goto("https://example.com").await?;
    tab.wait_for_load().await?;
    let h1 = tab.find().css("h1").one().await?;
    println!("{}", h1.inner_text().await?);
    browser.close().await?;
    Ok(())
}

If this prints Example Domain, the install is working. See Quickstart for a walkthrough of what each line is doing.