I try to work with protractor. So I followed a small tutorial and the first thing I did:
npm install -g protractor
This will install two co
Your web browser is probably using a proxy, or some other indirect access to the wider internet that the webdriver-manager script isn't configured to use. (The webdriver-manager supports a --proxy parameter if you know what to pass to it.)
If you can download the files manually, just put them in the selenium directory manually. The script also unzips the "chromedriver_win32.zip" in place to get the chromedriver binary contained in it.