npm install chromedriver failing with Current existing ChromeDriver binary is unavailable, proceding with download and extraction

[Seph La Bonte]

Hello!

I am trying to install chromedriver for a node/react project.

We have our npm registry set to a private registry with Artifactory.

When I try to do a npm install chromedriver, this always fails with "Current existing ChromeDriver binary is unavailable, proceding with download and extraction"

Which then proceeds to try and download from a google.apis url, which fails, because the network I am working on has limited access to the outside world.

How can I make chromedriver install from the private registry? Or even setup chromedriver for a node/react project to use with webdriverio.