There is an unofficial Selenium documentation that talks about the different drivers. You will need a webdriver for the web browser you wish to control. While it is not required, it is a very good idea to use a virtual environment to play with Selenium so that you don’t install versions of software that may affect your other projects. Virtual Environmentįor any project I do, I setup a Python Virtual Environment, and you can check out my quick article on setting this up. And I was really impressed on how quick and easy it was to setup and test. I needed to see if I could quickly setup and test how Selenium works, so that I can prepare some tests for the web client of the software package I work with at the office.

If everything went right, it will start the Chromium browser and open the python site.Selenium can be fun to play with, but really best used for website testing.

Save the program as example.py and run it with python3 example.py Options.binary_location = '/usr/bin/chromium'ĭriver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options) This also works for Edge from selenium.webdriver import EdgeĪfter installation of the web driver, we can make Python start the browser using the code below: If you use Chrome, you could do this: from selenium.webdriver import Chromeįor the Firefox driver, initialize like this: from selenium.webdriver import Firefox

There are all kind of webdrivers including:ĭepending on which driver you install, you can load a different browser. This will install the selenium module, but that’s not all yet. Once that’s setup and activated, you want to install the selenium module inside it. To get started, first you should setup a virtual environment. This can be quite tricky to get right, if you are new to selenium I recommend the course below.īrowser Automation with Python Selenium - Novice to Ninja Install selenium To use use selenium, you need both the selenium module and the web driver installed. A web browser can be controlled using Python code, any task you would normally do on the web can be done using the selenium module.

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