Most likely chromedriver is incompatible with Node 5. Try 4.2.2 instead.

请问您这个问题是怎么解决的

According to the install.js, the script downloads the chromediriver binary via http.get.
But the zip file has been moved and the situation is not handled by the script.

curl -I http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.21/chromedriver_mac32.zip
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Connection: close
Location: http://101.44.1.11/files/1068000004E980C8/chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.21/chromedriver_mac32.zip

Fix it by running:

npm install chromedriver --chromedriver_cdnurl=http://cdn.npm.taobao.org/dist/chromedriver

@KingMario thanks

Downloading http://npm.taobao.org/mirrors/chromedriver/2.24/chromedriver_win32.zip
Saving to C:\Users\asktalk\AppData\Local\Temp\chromedriver\chromedriver_win32.zip
Receiving...
ChromeDriver installation failed undefined
npm info lifecycle chromedriver@2.24.1~install: Failed to exec install script
npm ERR! Windows_NT 10.0.14393
npm ERR! argv "D:\2.enviroment_domain\2.nodejs.env\node.exe" "D:\2.enviroment_domain\2.nodejs.env\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js" "install" "chromedriver" "--chromedriver_cdnurl=http://cdn.npm.taobao.org/dist/chromedriver" "-g"
npm ERR! node v6.6.0
npm ERR! npm v3.10.3
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! chromedriver@2.24.1 install: node install.js
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the chromedriver@2.24.1 install script 'node install.js'.
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the chromedriver package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! node install.js
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR! npm bugs chromedriver
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls chromedriver
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

@KingMario

it does work for me

Hi,

The topic is already closed, however, I want to share with you steps I did to resolve this issue. Hope it helps someone whos still struggling with it.

1. Download chrome driver from here (I used 2.20 version): https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.20/chromedriver_win32.zip
2. Unpack it somewhere in your project dir.
3. Using NPM install package from local files system:
   npm install chromedriver --chromedriver_filepath=/path/to/chromedriver.zip
4. Update .npmrc file with this line: chromedriver_filepath=/path/to/chromedriver.zip (optional)
5. In protractor.conf.js file indicate new source of chrome driver adding a line:
   chromeDriver: './node_modules/chromedriver/lib/chromedriver/chromedriver.exe'

Work at least on my end 😄

npm install chromedriver --chromedriver_cdnurl=http://cdn.npm.taobao.org/dist/chromedriver

@tomaszczechowski can you tell me where is the .npmsrc file?

if you don't have it, just create it in the same flles level as a package.json is.

ok, thank you! i have resolved this problem. but i still have a question.when i write
""chromedriver_filepath=C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Temp/chromedriver/chromedriver_win32.zip"" in the .npmrc file,then next time , if you run npm install chromedriver , it will find this module in "C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Temp/chromedriver/chromedriver_win32.zip" this place, right?? but it doesn't work, it still downloads from "https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.35/chromedriver_win32.zip" this url,i feel confused.